LabVIEW Development
LabVIEW,
a product of National Instruments, is a high-level graphical
programming language based upon data flow diagrams. It
allows rapid development of software for a wide variety
of applications. It can be used to simply put a GUI on
a piece of existing text based code such as C, or an entire
application may be developed using LabVIEW. It may be
used with GPIB, Ethernet, USB, Serial, IrDA, CANBus, or
other interfaces to monitor and control instruments and
machinery as well as collect and analyze data. 3 example
user interfaces are shown below. The one on the left is
a basic user interface. The one on the right includes
custom buttons and dynamic loading of graphical content.
The bottom image is an example of a custom eddy current
data analysis program (click this one to see a larger
version).
Practical
Physics has experience developing automated test equipment
(ATE), remote data acquisition using TCP/IP and a custom
designed LabVIEW powered instrument, register level programming
for development of LabVIEW drivers, remote motor control
vis a joystick and TCP/IP, integration of monolithic instruments
into ATE systems, custom on-the-fly data analysis, and
other applications.
