Labview for Data Acquisition (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Series)

The practical, succinct LabVIEW data acquisition tutorial for every professional.

No matter how much LabVIEW experience you have, this compact tutorial gives you core skills for producing virtually any data acquisition (DAQ) application-input and output. Designed for every engineer and scientist, LabVIEW for Data Acquisition begins with quick-start primers on both LabVIEW and DAQ, and builds your skills with extensive code examples and visual explanations drawn from Bruce Mihura's extensive experience teaching LabVIEW to professionals.

• Includes extensive coverage of DAQ-specific programming techniques
• Real-world techniques for maximizing accuracy and efficiency
• The 10 most common LabVIEW DAQ development problems-with specific solutions
• Addresses simulation, debugging, real-time issues, and network/distributed systems
• Preventing unauthorized changes to your LabVIEW code
• An overview of transducers for a wide variety of signals
• Non-NI alternatives for hardware and software

LabVIEW for Data Acquisition includes an extensive collection of real-world LabVIEW applications, lists of LabVIEW tips and tricks, coverage of non-NI software and hardware alternatives, and much more. Whatever data acquisition application you need to create, this is the book to start and finish with.

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BRUCE MIHURA is the owner of LC Technology, an NI certified consultancy specializing in writing custom data acquisition, and control software using LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, BridgeVIEW, TestStand, Microsoft Visual C++, and Microsoft Visual Basic. He worked for seven years at National Instruments, spending five years as a LabVIEW developer and nearly two years as sole designer of NI's DAQ Designer configuration software for data acquisition systems. Bruce has taught 32 LabVIEW and/or DAQ classes to date.