LabView - Additional Information

What is LabView?

LabView is a program development environment, much like modern C or Basic development environment. While other programming languages use text-based language to create lines of code, LabView uses a 'graphical' programming language, G, to create programs in block diagram form.

Where is LabView?

LabView is available on all DECS lab PCs.

Preparing Your Account to Use LabView

All DECS accounts are set to utilize Labview.

Invoking Labview

To start LabView, follow these steps:

Click on Start --> Programs --> National Instruments --> LabVIEW --> LabVIEW

Moving About in LabView

LabView have an editor called VI. VI consists of an interactive user interface, a dataflow diagram that serves as the source code, and icon connections that allow the VI to be called from a higher level VIs.

To open a new file in LabView, click

New VI

This will pop-up 3 windows: 1) The 'Tools' box, 2) two editor windows.

When you done writing the program, click on

Save As

and make sure that you save the file in your 'M:\' drive. The file extention should be '.vi'.

Additional Information 

For more extensive information, please see the User Manual, available in the DECS Consulting Office, Room 1325 EB.

Helpful websites :

http://www.ni.com/laview
http://www.eelab.usyd.edu.au/labview/main.html