Introduction to National Instruments LabVIEW and Data Acquisition (DAQ)
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This lab exercise requires the students to write a simple LabVIEW program. This lab gives the students a good background in what the LabVIEW interface looks like and how to read a simple voltage from the data acquisition (DAQ) board.
If students have done some programming (even very simple programming) before performing this lab, they will get more out of writing their first LabVIEW program. If students have no previous programming experience, LabVIEW can be a very good introduction to programming. Visualizing the operation of a program graphically is easier for most people than looking at lines of textual code.
In the first part of the lab, the students write a non-DAQ program via a step-by-step tutorial. In the second part of the lab, students write a very simple analog input program. While students are working on their programs, you may want to offer each group some advice. Show them some LabVIEW features you have found useful. For example, when the students demonstrate their programs to graph scaled random numbers, show the students how to change the y-scale using the autoscale feature or manually.
Filename: 4078.doc
Application Software: LabVIEW Full Development System 6.0
Language(s): LabVIEW
Hardware Group: Multifunction DAQ (MIO)
Driver: Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) 6.9.0
If students have done some programming (even very simple programming) before performing this lab, they will get more out of writing their first LabVIEW program. If students have no previous programming experience, LabVIEW can be a very good introduction to programming. Visualizing the operation of a program graphically is easier for most people than looking at lines of textual code.
In the first part of the lab, the students write a non-DAQ program via a step-by-step tutorial. In the second part of the lab, students write a very simple analog input program. While students are working on their programs, you may want to offer each group some advice. Show them some LabVIEW features you have found useful. For example, when the students demonstrate their programs to graph scaled random numbers, show the students how to change the y-scale using the autoscale feature or manually.
Requirements
Filename: 4078.doc
Software Requirements
Application Software: LabVIEW Full Development System 6.0
Language(s): LabVIEW
Hardware Requirements
Hardware Group: Multifunction DAQ (MIO)
Driver: Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) 6.9.0
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