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Textbook: LabVIEW 8 Student Edition by Robert Bishop

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The LabVIEW 8 Student Edition textbook presents graphical programming concepts through real- world applications and the LabVIEW Student Edition software for personal educational use. The book provides an accessible, motivational approach to help students successfully master NI LabVIEW. This edition is fully updated for LabVIEW 8, covering new palettes navigation, functionality such as LabVIEW MathScript, and updated problems and exercises.

 

LabVIEW 8 Student Edition, 4e:

 

Author(s):
Robert H. Bishop
The University of Texas at Austin

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:   2007
Pages:  600 pp

 ISBN-10:

 0131999184

 ISBN-13:

 9780131999183

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Description:

For courses in Measurement and Instrumentation, Electrical Engineering lab, and Physics and Chemistry lab.

This revised printing has been updated to include new LabVIEW 8.2 Student Edition. National Instruments' LabVIEW is the defacto industry standard for test, measurement, and automation software solutions. With the Student Edition of LabVIEW, students can design graphical programming solutions to their classroom problems and laboratory experiments with software that delivers the graphical programming capabilites of the LabVIEW professional version. . The Student Edition is also compatible with all National Instruments data acquisition and instrument control hardware.

Note: The LabVIEW Student Edition is available to students, faculty, and staff for personal educational use only. It is not intended for research, institutional, or commercial use. For more information about these licensing options, please visit the National Instruments website at (http:www.ni.com/academic/)

Features:

· Included with text is LabVIEW 8.2 Student Edition software 

· NEW Chapter covering LabVIEW MathScript:

  • MathScript is a new LabVIEW 8 feature that adds textual math to the Full, Professional, Student and Evaluation editions of LabVIEW (This release of MathScript only supports LabVIEW for Windows)
  • MathScript is generally compatible with the m-file script syntax utilized by alternative technical computing software

· Complete re-write of Building Blocks for every chapter

· Dozens of NEW homework and example problems

· Upgrade to Chap. 11 Analysis to reflect 150 new and enhanced analysis VIs

· New Appendix to include exciting innovative developments with Sound Card API, LabVIEW Project and Shared Variables

· New features in LabVIEW 8.0 that are covered in the textbook:

 

  • MathScript Window
  • MathScript Node
  • LabVIEW Project
  • Shared Variable
  • Exporting images of graphs/charts
  • Graph annotations
  • Navigation Window
  • New XY Graph planes
  • Simulated Data Acquisition
  • New Sound Card API
  • LabVIEW-Multisim integration
  • New Polynomial functions
  • New File I/O functions
  • New Matrix datatype
  • New Linear Algebra functions
  • LabVIEW Simulation

 

Table of Contents:

  1. LabVIEW Basics
  2. Virtual Instruments 
  3. Mathscript 
  4. Editing and Debugging Virtual Instruments 
  5. Sub VIs 
  6. Structures 
  7. Arrays and Clusters 
  8. Charts and Graphs 
  9. Data Acquisition 
  10. Strings and File I/O
  11. Analysis

Exercises

Problems

Design Problems

Appendix A: Instrument Control

Appendix B: Other LabVIEW Applications

Application Software

  • LabVIEW Full Developement System 8.0 or newer

 

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