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FREE National Instruments LabVIEW® Course Offerings  


Basic Topics - Introduction to LabVIEW®

This basic class covers the fundamentals of building a robust measurement and automation systems using LabVIEW with data acquisition and instrument control hardware. Discover how LabVIEW makes you more productive by saving you valuable development time and money. The seminar will give you the opportunity to:

  • Create a complete LabVIEW® application from start to finish
  • Develop complete flexible data acquisition and instrument control applications
  • Connect your application to the network to share information throughout your enterprise and the Internet
  • Control traditional IEEE 488 (GPIB) or serial instruments with LabVIEW instrument drivers
  • Learn about the latest technologies, including Active X and multi-threading and how to use them in your application
  • Use LabVIEW built-in measurement analysis functions including spectral analysis, digital filtering, and signal generation
  • Discover additional LabView productivity tools including test management, Internet and database connectivity, data logging, and real-time software
  • Workbooks and documentation will be provided to each participant.

Class duration: 4 hours

Next Offering: Not currently scheduled - Check back soon

Call or email Lisa Stevenson at 865-1444 for seating availability.


Advanced Topics - Real Time A/D Conversion Issues

In cooperation with National Instruments, attendees will experience real hardware and LabVIEW’s new version 7.1 tools.

The seminar will cover these topics:

  • A/D conversion modes
  • Single channel vs. group
  • Buffered vs. unbuffered
  • Hardware vs. Software sampling timing
  • Potentially competitive activities for CPU resources and how to control them
  • Multi-threading as a means to maximize CPU resources utilization
  • Control Systems
  • Data Management


Class duration: 2 hours

Next Offering: Not currently scheduled - Check back soon

Call or email Lisa Stevenson at 865-1444 for seating availability.


Advanced Topics - Real Time Networking Issues

In cooperation with National Instruments, attendees will experience real hardware and LabVIEW’s new version 7.1 tools.

The seminar will cover these topics:

  • Remote Network Access
  • Learn how to monitor and control LabVIEW® applications through a web browser with the new remote panels feature of LabVIEW.
  • Share data between different applications with data sockets.
  • Utilizing email, telnet and ftp capabilities in your LabVIEW® programs.
  • Generate HTML reports from your data acquisition routines ready for web publishing.
  • Using a data acquisition board remotely with TCP/IP.
  • LabVIEW's native web servers
  • Data Socket Server
  • User Panel Server
  • VI Server
  • Distributed Processing Methods
  • Distributing your LabVIEW® application across a network using VI Server.
  • Data Sockets
  • Remote System Issues
  • Network data rates and connectivity loss
  • Reliability

Class duration: 2 hours

Next Offering: Not currently scheduled - Check back soon

Call or email Lisa Stevenson at 865-1444 for seating availability.

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