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AEA LVUG Meetings are held on the Third Thursday of every even month.  Meeting locations generally alternate monthly between A6/1404 and D8/1010. Besides the meeting notes and example code below, AEA LVUG members may also get meeting notes and example code here.

Topic
Example code and additional information
October 2008:
Software Reuse in LabVIEW (James Kring, Inc.)
Presentation

September 2008:
New NI Hardware for 2008

Introduced 6.6 GHz RF, wireless DAQ, single-board cRIO, and ethernet DAQ.

August 2008:
What is new in LabVIEW 8.6?

LabVIEW 8.6 upgrade overview

April 2008:
Understanding and Avoiding LabVIEW Cross-Linking Problems
Presentation Slides and Additional Resources

February 2008:
Improving Your Development with the LabVIEW Project

Presentation Slides and Additional Resources

January 2008:
Introduction to LabVIEW FPGA

LabVIEW FPGA

August 2007:

Custom Analysis Algorithm Development with
LabVIEW and MathScript by Eugene Bernal from VI Technology

Mathscript Links:
1. Full List of MathScript Functions in LabVIEW 8.5
2. Abridged MathScript Function List
3. MathScript Example Gallery
4. Developing Algorithms Using MathScript (Part 1) and Part 2 Here

MathScript Demo Script (.doc)
Instrument Demo (.vi)

July 2007:

Discussion of LegoMindstorms NXT robotics competition
 

June 2007:

Discussion of LegoMindstorms NXT robotics competition
 

May 2007:

Demo of LegoMindstorms NXT robotics kit by Ted Carancho

April 2007:
CompactDAQ and LabVIEW SignalExpress by Mike Roberto, National Instruments

 

March 2007:

Introduction to Machine Vision with LabVIEW and IMAQ  (Part 2) by Markus Tarin, President/CEO moviMED
 

February 2007:

Introduction to Machine Vision with LabVIEW and IMAQ  (Part 1) by Markus Tarin, President/CEO moviMED
 

January 2007:

Retrofitting Rack-Mount Based ATEs, Utilizing PXI Modules as Virtual Instrumentation
By Ehud Shany, President/CEO WinSoft Inc.

 

December 2006:

NI PXI Instrumentation Overview by Ricardo Dunia

October 2006:

NI PXI Instrumentation Overview by John Koontz

September 2006:

LabVIEW 8.20 and NI Hardware by John Koontz

July 2006:

Designing a real-time control system for a Thermal Vacuum Chamber using PXI and LabVIEW

by Randy Schmidt, NexGen Automation Experts, LLC

June 2006:

Process Control using Compact Field Point and Labview Real-Time

by Michael A. Tockstein

May 2006:

Sockets by Steve Mazuk and Catherine Venturini

April 2006:

Lab Tour: Use of LIDAR in studying dust devils

Presentation and Examples

March 2006:

Digital Signal Processing in LabVIEW by Tim Wright

February 2006:

Property Nodes and VI Server by Ted Carancho

January 2006:

Instrument Drivers by Catherine Venturini

December 2005:

Tricks of High-Speed Data Acquisition by Tim Wright

November 2005:

LabVIEW 8

October 2005:

State Machine Programming by Ted Carancho

September 2005:

Compact RIO and LabVIEW FPGA

Compact RIO - http://www.ni.com/compactrio/

LabVIEW FPGA - http://www.ni.com/fpga/

August 2005:

Highlights from NI Week 2005 and demo of LabJack USB DAQ card

July 2005:

Tour of Photovoltaic Cell Evaluation Facility in D8

May 2005:

NI-DAQmx 7.4 and M-Series DAQ Boards

April 2005:
LabVIEW Internet Toolkit - SMTP Email vi's

March 2005:

LabVIEW Excel GOOP Toolkit & Report Generation

February 2005:

LabVIEW Data Storage Options & DIAdem

July 2004:

LabVIEW 7.1

March 2003:

LabVIEW FPGA and Reconfigurable I/O

December 2002:

DAQ Basics - Using LabVIEW to acquire analog and digital measurements using a National Instruments E-series Multifunction DAQ Card

October 2002:

Basic Labview Topics:

    • Tips & Tricks for making professional looking User Interfaces
    • Array Basics

June 2002:

Programmatically Controlling LabVIEW through VI Server

Labview 6.1 example code

May 16, 2002:

Introduction to Graphical Object Oriented Programming (GOOP) using LabVIEW

Labview 6.1 example code

April 18, 2002:

  • Overview of FieldPoint
  • FieldPoint Hardware Options (see catalog)
  • Demonstration of FieldPoint with LabVIEW
  • Demonstration of FieldPoint with LabVIEW Real-Time for automated control
FieldPoint Distributed I/O Family

March 21, 2002:

The New Features of LabVIEW 6.1:
Integrated Networking
- Remote Front Panels
- XML Support
- IrDA Support
Enhanced Measurement Analysis
- Pulse and Transition Measurements
- Point by Point Analysis Library
- Enhanced Performance for FFT Analysis
Event Driven Programming
- Event Structures
- How to achieve efficiency by using events

See new examples bundled with Labview 6.1 and see http://amp.ni.com/niwc/labview/lv.jsp

September 20, 2001:

File I/O Techniques:
- How to work with byte stream files.
- What are datalog files?
- Streaming data to disk.
- Creating files for data archiving.
- Comparison of ASCII, binary and datalog files.

Labview 5.x example code

August 23, 2001:

Common Programming Situations:
Solutions to recurring programming situations requested by user group members.

Examples include:
- Creating a log filename from the date and time and renaming it if there is already a duplicate file.
- Ability to read through large multi-channel data files and be able to selectively graph the data based on time.

Complete
(includes more examples than listed below)
Labview 6i
Launching VI's In Background

Labview 5.x

Labview 6i

Write Data To File Labview 6i
About Box

Labview 5.x

Labview 6i

Millisecond Timer

Labview 5.x

Labview 6i

Monitor For Close Button

Labview 5.x

Labview 6i

July 26, 2001:

Instrument Control:
- How to verify correct operation of hardware at the driver level.
- How to send commands / receive messages from an external instrument.
- An example of architecting the software for communicating with multiple instruments.
- Using the GPIB libraries.
- Communicating to your instruments with VISA.

Labview 6i example code

April 26, 2001:

LabVIEW Real-Time:
- What exactly does LabVIEW RT do?
- When does it make sense to use it?
- How to turn a PXI chassis into a real-time system.
- How can I design programs under LabVIEW RT?
- Passing command/status messages to a LabVIEW RT system across a network.

Labview 6i example code

March 22, 2001:

Building An Effective Graphical User Interface (GUI):
- Control / Indicator Basics
- Labeling Options
- Graphing Options (multiple scales, multiple plots, 3D)
- Using the Tab Control
- How to Group / Lock Objects
- General Tips on GUI Design
- Programmatically Controlling Your GUI (two state machine style approaches)

Labview 6i example code

February 22, 2001:

ActiveX:
- What is ActiveX?
- How do you use ActiveX in LabVIEW?
- How to use ActiveX controls on the front panel of a VI.
- Controlling other Windows programs with ActiveX
- Example of how to import data directly into an Excel spreadsheet.

Labview 5.x example code

Labview 6i example code

January 25, 2001:

Flow Control & Looping Structures:
- Basics of case structures, sequence structures, while loops & for loops.
- What is a shift register? What is a tunnel?
- How can I build arrays dynamically?
- How can I exit early out of sequence structures?
- Making your code run faster when using parallel loops.

Labview 5.x example code

Labview 6i example code

DataSockets

Labview 6i example code

Java Examples

Customizing Controls & Indicators

Labview 5.x example code

Labview 6i example code

 

 

   
   
Last updated November 17, 2008