Overview
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Learn how to connect data-acquisition hardware to LabVIEW and acquire and generate analog and digital signals from a variety of real-world devices.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Learn Data Acquisition with LabVIEW
- What you should know
- What is data acquisition?
- How to choose a DAQ device
- Device specifications and user guide
- Install LabVIEW and drivers
- Verify driver installation
- Connect a DAQ device
- Test panels
- Simulate a DAQ device
- Analog input modes
- Acquisition timing
- Channels and tasks
- Analog input with DAQ Assistant
- NI-DAQmx API
- On demand analog input
- Finite analog input
- Continuous analog input
- Multiple analog input channels
- Challenge: Acquire and display a signal
- Solution: Acquire and display a signal
- Types of triggers
- Configure a digital edge Start trigger
- Challenge: Retriggerable acquisition
- Solution: Retriggerable acquisition
- Log data with DAQ Assistant
- Log data with Write to Measurement File
- Read TDMS files with LabVIEW
- Read TDMS files with Microsoft Excel
- Analog signal generation fundamentals
- Analog output with DAQ Assistant
- Finite analog output with NI-DAQmx API
- Continuous analog output (regeneration)
- Continuous output (non-regeneration)
- Challenge: Generate a recorded signal
- Solution: Generate a recorded signal
- Digital signal fundamentals
- Digital input with DAQ Assistant
- Digital input with NI-DAQmx API
- Digital output with DAQ Assistant
- Digital output with NI-DAQmx API
- Counter fundamentals
- Count edges with DAQ Assistant
- Challenge: Display edge count value
- Solution: Display edge count value
- Virtual instrument software architecture
- Connect a benchtop oscilloscope
- Instrument Driver Network
- Next steps
