Connecting LabVIEW with INRIA Scilab Software
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LabVIEW is an open platform that allows you to easily integrate 3rd-party software such as INRIA Scilab. Learn more about the free, downloadable software that provides a link between LabVIEW and Scilab and allows you to easily invoke scripts from INRIA Scilab in your LabVIEW graphical programming.
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What is INRIA Scilab?
INRIA Scilab is an open-source platform for numerical computation. Freely downloadable from http://www.scilab.org, Scilab offers a text-based language with built-in functions and syntax that simplify numerical computation involving vectors and matrices.
Connecting NI LabVIEW with INRIA Scilab
With the software that provides a link between LabVIEW and Scilab, you can easily invoke your Scilab Scripts from LabVIEW Virtual Instruments (VIs).
Figure 1, The Gateway software installs into LabVIEW as a script node, a text-editor region that you can drag-and-drop onto your LabVIEW block diagrams.
Figure 2, You can wire into and out of the Gateway script node by defining input / output variables on the edge of a node. You can do so by right-clicking the edge of the Gateway script node and making a selection from the pop-up menu (1). Next, type the name of the variable that you wish to associate with the new input (or output) (2). You can then wire into (or out of) (3) the new input (or output).
Downloading and Installing the LabVIEW to Scilab Gateway Software
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Visit LabVIEW to Scilab Gateway to download the gateway software.
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If you have not already done so, install INRIA Scilab.
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If you have not already done so, install National Instruments LabVIEW.
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Unzip the contents of the zip file that you have just downloaded to the LabVIEW installation folder, for example: C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.2.
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Restart LabVIEW to apply the changes and complete the installation.
Refer to the readme.pdf file contained in the zip file that you downloaded for system requirements and additional instructions.
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Reader Comments | Submit a comment »
ver 1.1 broken
Ver 1.1 from des 2008 seems to have
broken the gateway. Runtime error and
wrong name of script node
(originally "Script Scilab", but when right-
clicking and choosing server it suddelny
say "Scilab script")
- Feb 4, 2009
The gateway works with Labview 8.0, but not
the examples, because they are made for
Labview 8.2.1. This is naturally a problem
for the Labview8.0-users.
Dr. WK
- Walter Knell, privat. felix.knell@t-online.de - Feb 29, 2008
Don't work with labwiew 8.0
- Nicolas Bruyant, Cea Grenoble . nicolas.bruyant@cea.fr - Jun 15, 2007
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