LabVIEW for Everyone (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Series) - Softcover

For professional engineers, scientists, and technicians as well as students who use PCs to measure, analyze, and/or control instrumentation and equipment either in the lab or on a manufacturing floor in such industries as aerospace, petrochemical, biomedical, research, and automotive, to name a few. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to LabVIEW and helps professionals begin programming quickly by demonstrating how to write effective, original LabVIEW programs, known as virtual instruments (VI). Through intuitive, step-by-step examples, LabVIEW for Everyone presents the fundamentals of LabVIEW such as graphs, charts, datatypes as well as advanced topics that include data acquisition, instrument control, programming methodology, and more. By using LabVIEW for Everyone, readers will be able to employ various debugging techniques, manipulate both built-in LabVIEW functions and library VIs, create and save unique VIs, design custom graphical user interfaces (GUIs), use built-in analysis functions to process data, optimize the speed and performance of LabVIEW programs, publish data over the Internet, and much more.

JEFFREY TRAVIS provides expert consulting and creates books, courses, and products for remote Internet controls and monitoring, virtual instrumentation, and Web applications, through his company, Jeffrey Travis Studios. He has over 12 years of experience with developing software applications, teaching courses, and providing project guidance and advice, often involving LabVIEW. He holds a Masters in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and is author of Internet Applications in LabVIEW (Prentice Hall PTR). He resides in Austin, TX, and can be found on the Web at www.JeffreyTravis.com