How to Get More Power and Flexibility With Counter/Timers

	December 6, 2011
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How to Get
More Power and Flexibility With Counter/Timers Harnessing the RIO Architecture for Control and Monitoring

Learn how you can use counters for many different applications, such as event counting and reading or writing digital pulse trains, and develop counter applications using LabVIEW software and the NI-DAQmx API.

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Share: You can use the reconfigurable I/O (RIO) architecture to design embedded systems across a wide range of industries and applications and develop innovative, high-performance systems with unique capabilities.

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Tech Tips

GPIB Driver Versions for Microsoft Windows and DOS
Learn about the current drivers available for GPIB hardware used with Microsoft Windows and DOS.
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Webcast: Getting Started With NI EthernetRIO
See how you can create a distributed monitoring and control system with NI EthernetRIO and LabVIEW in just a matter of minutes.
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Webcast: How Optical Sensing Is Changing Structural Test Applications
Optical sensing provides advantages over electrical sensors used in most physical measurement systems. Learn several optical techniques and see how you can quickly configure and acquire fiber Bragg grating sensor data with the NI optical sensor interrogator.
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Data Streaming Architectures in PXI Systems
With the PXI platform, your instruments can stream data to or from sources other than onboard device memory. Before examining the data streaming architectures for PXI systems, understand how streaming takes place on both the PCI and PCI Express buses.
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Community Highlights

Sweet Apps: The Automated Guitar Hero Robot
Using LabVIEW and an NI USB-6009 data acquisition device, this student design team created a vision-controlled, automated Guitar Hero robot to compete in the Guitar Hero World Tour video game.
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Example Code: Convert TDMS to Text in LabVIEW
Download this VI to convert a Technical Data Management Streaming (TDMS) file generated by LabVIEW or LabVIEW SignalExpress into a text file. This VI returns channel names, corresponding start times of acquisition, time interval between samples, and waveform data.
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Are You a LabVIEW Code Master? Prove It.
Show off your LabVIEW coding skills by submitting original LabVIEW example code to the LabVIEW Coding Challenge.
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Turn Off Auto Grow for All Structures in a Folder of VIs
If you want to turn off structure auto grow on all structures in a large group of VIs, check out the utility VI discussed in Darren's Weekly Nugget.
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What's New

ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation for NI Calibration Services
NI Calibration Services at NI headquarters in Austin, Texas, is now accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) for calibrating to one of the highest accuracy standards in the industry, the ISO/IEC 17025:2005.
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Spend the Budget Now, Schedule the Training Later
Don’t let budget cycles interfere with making wise training investments. Purchase training credits now when you have the budget and schedule it later when you need the training.
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NI Introduces Its First Low-Speed CAN and LIN Interfaces for NI CompactDAQ
The newest modules in the NI-XNET family, the NI 9861 controller area network (CAN) interface and NI 9866 local interconnect network (LIN) interface, give you productivity advantages such as hardware-accelerated messaging and onboard processing.
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Top 5 NI Community Groups

1. LabVIEW Student Community »

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3. UI Interest Group »

4. Sweet Apps »

5. Linux Users »

Events and Training
New NI VeriStand Fundamentals Course »

December 14 Virtual User Group: Introduction to the Actor Framework »

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Question of the Month
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NI in the Press
EDN Hot 100 Products of 2011: Communications and Test Instruments »

LabVIEW Interface for Arduino (LIFA) »

Melding Measurements With Design Software »

Design and Test Merge »

LabVIEW Tool of the Week
CURE Pattern ID Toolkit
This tool created by Neural ID lets you quickly create automated inspection, anomaly detection, sensor fusion, machine vision, and other complex pattern identification applications.
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