Hands-On Sessions and Technical Presentations

Advanced LabVIEW Event-Driven Programming Topics

Take your LabVIEW development to the next level with dynamic and user-defined events. This session examines the internal LabVIEW event architecture and covers event registration, the order of event delivery, filter events versus notify events, and other topics that make your LabVIEW applications even more efficient. To get the most out of this session, you should be familiar with LabVIEW VI server concepts and basic LabVIEW event usage.

Advanced LabVIEW Programming Tips and Techniques

Enhance your programming expertise with these powerful tips and techniques for developing advanced NI LabVIEW applications. Learn to take full advantage of smart probes, timed loops, event-driven programming, memory management tools, and file I/O performance enhancements.

Building Rugged Industrial Machine Control Systems with CompactRIO

This session features a reliable real-time embedded control reference design example and provides tips and tricks for creating rugged, reliable, and low-cost machine control systems using NI CompactRIO. Learn how the unprecedented flexibility and open access to the low-level hardware capabilities of CompactRIO help you replace costly custom circuit designs and create complete stand-alone embedded control systems while performing both hardware and software design in LabVIEW. Discuss how to partition your control application between the reconfigurable I/O FPGA and the real-time controller. Topics include single-point control, FPGA-based PID, parallel logic, redundancy, motion control, and interfacing to industrial sensors/actuators.

Creating Handheld Measurement Systems with LabVIEW

This session covers the basics of building handheld measurement devices with the National Instruments LabVIEW PDA Module. Learn how to use the LabVIEW PDA Module, how to select the right hardware devices and NI measurement hardware, how to acquire data with your hardware devices, and how to share data with other computer systems through these devices. This session illustrates data acquisition systems, PDA digital multimeter devices, and remote control systems using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth communication.

Designing Distributed Industrial Measurement and Control Applications with Vision, Motion, and I/O

Engineers are using National Instruments industrial controllers running LabVIEW Real-Time to build distributed systems that incorporate vision, motion, and I/O. This session focuses on the new industrial control platforms and examines ways to integrate embedded CompactRIO, Compact FieldPoint, and compact vision systems.

Essential Technologies for Mixed-Signal Test

Explore the essential technologies for design and test in the consumer electronics industry through technical solution demonstrations and industry case studies. Learn how to use these essential technologies to accelerate product development and address the globalization of design and manufacturing. Discover what software and high-performance modular hardware is being utilized to manage the complexity of new designs and converging technologies. Demonstrations highlight test scenarios for consumer electronics, communications, and design and validation.

Introduction to LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Tools

Explore the new NI LabVIEW tools for system identification, control design, and simulation. During this session, see a demo of the new tools and learn how you can use them to build custom control algorithms, from standard PID control algorithms to complex control algorithms. Learn how you can use these new tools with existing NI hardware and software, such as LabVIEW Real-Time, to implement real-time control systems.

Introduction to SignalExpress

NI SignalExpress is new, interactive software for acquiring, comparing, automating, and storing electronic measurements in design and validation testing applications. With SignalExpress, you can simplify your exploratory and automated measurement tasks with a drag-and-drop, configuration-based environment that removes the requirement to develop code. Access your measurements quickly using built-in steps for signal acquisition, processing, time and frequency domain analysis, and file I/O. This session covers a variety of real-world demonstrations and explains how you can create user-defined steps for SignalExpress using NI LabVIEW to extend the functionality of the interactive environment.

LabVIEW FPGA: Introduction and Common Applications

This session includes a demonstration on how to build a simple application, as well as a discussion of practical, real-world customer applications.

M Series and USB: The Next Generation of DAQ

The next generation of multifunction DAQ devices has more performance and more I/O channels, and actually costs less! This session highlights the all-new features and designs implemented in M Series data acquisition and discusses the new applications that they address. Also learn about the new USB DAQ devices, which are perfect for low-cost and portable applications.

Managing Ultrahigh-Density Switch Systems with NI Switch Executive

Attend this session to see how the latest NI Switch Executive features simplify the configuration and programming of ultrahigh-density switching applications. Learn how to set up IVI switches in Measurement & Automation Explorer, configure channels, create hardwires and route groups, and validate your entire switch application.

PXI and LabVIEW: Your Platform for Test‚ Control‚ and Design Applications

National Instruments LabVIEW and PXI define the measurement and automation platform standards for next-generation test systems. The superior software advantage of NI LabVIEW combined with the widest selection of PXI measurement hardware, including data acquisition, instruments, vision, and motion, deliver high-performance virtual instrumentation systems at an affordable price. Learn why the Royal Australian Air Force Black Hawk program and MicroSoft's Xbox initiative standardized on the industry-leading platform of LabVIEW and PXI.

Seven New Habits of Highly Successful NI-DAQ Programmers

You may have used NI-DAQmx for a simple application, and now you are ready to learn how to efficiently and effectively create NI-DAQmx code. Attend this session to learn advanced triggering, calibration, and multisensor applications.

Using LabVIEW and PXI for End-to-End Digital Communication Link Testing

Design and test components and subsystems in an end-to-end digital communication link using National Instruments LabVIEW, an NI RF signal analyzer, and the new NI RF vector signal generator. With this modular hardware-flexible software architecture, you can reduce development time and seamlessly transition your design from development to manufacturing. During this presentation, learn how you can use features such as the ability to design custom modulation schemes, target algorithms to embedded platforms such as FPGA, add unique measurement and visualization capabilities, ensure tight timing and triggering control among I/O devices, and integrate with tools such as Ansoft Designer.

What's New in LabVIEW 7.1?

This session features a demonstration on the latest additions to NI LabVIEW. The demos target new LabVIEW users as well as advanced LabVIEW programmers. In addition, review some of the new features in the LabVIEW product family.

What's New in LabVIEW Real-Time?

Discover the powerful new features of the latest version of the NI LabVIEW Real-Time Module. Observe the debugging and analysis capability of the LabVIEW Execution Trace Toolkit as it displays precise tracing of thread execution and preemption. Learn how you can now deploy a LabVIEW Real-Time application to a desktop PC.

Hands-On Sessions

DIAdem Advanced Data Analysis and Report Generation Hands-On

Discover the broad capabilities of NI DIAdem interactive test data analysis, report generation, and technical data management for collaborative engineering.

Optimize the way you obtain information, perform test data analysis, generate reports, and share results from your valuable data with this easy-to-use, configuration-based environment. Learn how DIAdem seamlessly connects to other NI products such as LabVIEW, the LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control (DSC) Module, and VI Logger.

Hands-On Introduction to LabVIEW Graphical Development Environment

Create custom test, measurement, and control applications easily with NI LabVIEW graphical development and be the first to see the latest innovations in the LabVIEW 7.1 product line.

Discover the power of National Instruments LabVIEW 7 Express -- the graphical development environment used by engineers and scientists in virtually every industry. You gain hands-on experience with LabVIEW and learn how its graphical development helps you reduce development time and create flexible applications that easily integrate with thousands of I/O devices from hundreds of vendors, getting you to your solution faster.

LabVIEW Real-Time Hands-On

Develop highly reliable deterministic systems with graphical programming and modular hardware.

The LabVIEW Real-Time Module extends the LabVIEW development environment to deliver deterministic, real-time performance. This session covers the basics of real-time technologies and the development process of a real-time application using LabVIEW Real-Time.

LabWindows/CVI - Streamlined I/O Connectivity and Integrated ANSI C Development Hands-On

Why use LabWindows/CVI 7.1?

LabWindows/CVI 7.1 is a proven test and measurement ANSI C development environment that increases the productivity of engineers and scientists. LabWindows/CVI 7.1 simplifies development with debugging, assistants, built-in libraries, and interactive execution. The flexibility and customization of LabWindows/CVI optimizes test and measurement applications including data acquisition, instrument control, analysis, and presentation.

Measurement Studio: Interactive I/O Development with Visual Studio .NET Hands-On

What is Measurement Studio 7.1?

Measurement Studio 7.1 is an integrated suite of native classes and controls for measurement and automation applications in Visual Studio .NET. Measurement Studio 7.1 dramatically reduces application development time through object-oriented measurement hardware interfaces, advanced analysis, scientific user interface controls, measurement data networking, wizards, interactive code designers, and highly extensible C++ and .NET classes.

NI TestStand Hands-On

Save development time and reduce overall cost to test with high-performance, flexible test systems.

NI TestStand organizes individual tests written in NI LabVIEW, LabWindows CVI, and other programming languages, while handling unit-under-test tracking, administration of users, result logging, dynamic loading of test parameters, and report generation.

Step-by-Step Data Acquisition: Reduce Your Total Cost of Test Hands-On

Learn how to take thousands of measurements.

Test-drive professional PC-based data acquisition systems and learn how to create modular and flexible systems with short development times at low costs. NI data acqu sition and signal conditioning products ensure highly accurate measurements, and NI LabVIEW gives you the power to easily analyze and display your acquired data.