LabVIEW Instrument Control Course Overview

The LabVIEW Instrument Control Course explores the basics of instrument control and teaches you how to use, modify, and develop instrument drivers for programmatically controlling instruments in LabVIEW. You will learn about the benefits of instrument control, explore industry applications, and gain an in depth understanding of how LabVIEW can be used to communicate with instruments. Additionally, you will learn how to efficiently modify an instrument driver and create new instrument drivers. 

 

Upon completion of the course, you can apply best practices in LabVIEW to communicate with instruments.  

Course Details:

LabVIEW Instrument Control Course Outline

LessonOverviewTopics

Overview of

Instrument Control

Understanding the Instrument Control and its benefits.
  • Introduction to Instrument Control
  • Benefits of Instrument Control

Communicating

with Instruments

Describing the use of LabVIEW to communicate with instruments.
  • Introduction to Instrument Control Buses
  •  Connecting to Instruments
  •  Software Architecture
  •  Monitor Communications
  •  VISA
  •  Programming with SCPI
Using Instrument DriversUnderstanding the structure of an instrument driver and observing what it looks like when programming.
  • What Is an Instrument Driver?
  • When to Use an Instrument Driver?
  • Installing Instrument Drivers
  • Instrument Driver VIs
  • Controlling an Instrument
Modifying an Existing Instrument DriverDescribing the ways to modify an existing instrument driver.
  • When to Modify an Instrument Driver
  • Instrument Driver Internal Design Model
  • Modifying an Existing Instrument Driver
Creating a New Instrument DriverDeveloping a new instrument driver
  • LabVIEW Instrument Driver Development Process
  • Designing Your Instrument Driver API
  • Testing an Instrument Driver
  • Deploying an Instrument Driver
Developing an ApplicationDeveloping effective and efficient instrument control applications.
  • Instrument VI Architectures
  • Guidelines

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