Audience: 

• LabVIEW Real-Time Module users preparing to develop applications to target RT series real time hardware
• Users developing deterministic closed-loop control systems or maximizing reliability of measurement systems
• Users developing applications for deployment in industrial environments or remote locations
• Users and technical managers evaluating LabVIEW Real-Time or NI Developer Suite in purchasing decisions

After attending this course you will be able to: 

• Determine if a real-time solution is appropriate for a given problem

• Choose the best target hardware for a given real-time application

• Implement a deterministic and reliable application

• Understand how to reduce the jitter in a realtime application

• Choose an appropriate communication method

• Benchmark your application

• Deploy your application

Prerequisites: 

• LabVIEW Basics I or equivalent experience

NI Products Used During the Course:

• LabVIEW Professional Development System, Version 7.1
• LabVIEW Real-Time Module
• LabVIEW Execution Trace Toolkit
• RT Series Compact FieldPoint System
• RT Series PXI Embedded Controller
• E-Series DAQ board
• DAQ Signal Accessory

Suggested Next Courses:

• LabVIEW Intermediate
• LabVIEW Advanced Application Development
• Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning
• LabVIEW FPGA

You will cover:

Design Introduction to Real-Time
This lesson introduces the concepts of real-time development. You will learn how to determine whether an application requires a real-time operating system or a standard operating system. You will also learn about the hardware architecture of a LabVIEW Real-Time system. Topics include:

• Real-time concepts including determinism and jitter
• Real-time operating systems
• Real-time hosts and targets
• RT input and output hardware
  

Configuring your hardware
This lesson describes how to setup, install and configure real-time hardware. You will receive hands-on experience in configuring both a PXI system and a Compact FieldPoint system. Topics include:

• Overview of hardware setup and installation
• Configuring the target
• Configuring your input and output
• Connecting to the target

Real-Time Architecture
This lesson describes how to design a real-time application. You will learn about the general architecture of a real-time application, multithreading, methods for passing data between threads, and how to improve the determinism of an application. Topics include:

• Multithreading
• Understanding and using priority levels
• Using sleep to ensure processor time
• Determining which methods to use to pass data between threads
• Memory management
• Functions that are not supported in a real-time environment

Timing Applications and Acquiring Data
During this lesson, you will implement the data acquisition and timing portion of a real-time application. You will learn about control theory, using software to time an application and using hardware to time an application. Topics include:

• Understanding the need for control
• Using PID control
• Simple event response in an application
• Using software for timing including the timed loop
• Using hardware for timing

Communication
During this lesson, you will implement the communication portion of a real-time application. You will learn about communicating with an application on a real-time target from the host computer. You will also learn about various communication techniques such as shared memory, network communication, and bus communication. Topics include:

• Communicating with applications on an RT target
• Creating communication VIs with the RT Communication Wizard
• Network communication methods including: TCP/IP, UDP, DataSocket, VI Server and Logos

Verifying your application
This lesson introduces methods for verifying the application, timing and memory behavior of your application. You will apply these methods to a real-time application. Topics include:

• LabVIEW debugging tools
• Using the RT System Manager
• Using the VI Analyzer
• Implementing Watchdogs
• Benchmarking your application
• Verifying overall behavior with the Trace tool

Deploying your application
This lesson describes how to deploy an application for use. Topics include:

• Introduction to deployment
• Application Builder
• Launching executables
• Communicating with deployed application

Advanced Topics
This lesson introduces some advanced topics for implementing your real-time application. These topics include:

• Implementing multiple time-critical loops
• Reusing code
• Using DLL’s in your real-time application

This course is available on the following dates in: Remainder of 2008
Pittsburgh	Cleveland	Philadelphia
- May 28-29-30 - October 8-9-10	- November 18-19-20	Scheduled by request

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