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Acquire data with LabVIEW

NI LabVIEW is an open environment designed to make interfacing with any measurement hardware simple. With interactive assistants, code generation, and connectivity to thousands of devices, LabVIEW makes gathering data as simple as possible.

Because LabVIEW provides connectivity to virtually any measurement device, you can easily incorporate new LabVIEW applications into existing systems without losing your hardware investment. Regardless of your hardware requirements, LabVIEW provides an interface to make connecting to your I/O easy.

Data Acquisition on Any Platform

With National Instruments LabVIEW, you quickly can acquire and generate signals from plug-in boards, USB devices, and Ethernet-based systems. These I/O capabilities, combined with special data types and measurement analysis functions, are specifically designed to get the measurements you need from your physical sensors as quickly and easily as possible. Reduce programming time with NI DAQmx technology.

Perform a wide variety of measurements with LabVIEW including:

  • Temperature
  • Voltage
  • Resistance
  • Pressure
  • Strain
  • Current
  • Pulse
  • Force
  • Vibration
  • Frequency
  • Period
  • Sound
  • Light
  • Digital Signals
  • More…

Instrument Control and Connectivity

LabVIEW simplifies connecting to and communicating with thousands of instruments from hundreds of vendors. With LabVIEW, you can quickly acquire data from GPIB, serial, Ethernet, PXI, USB, and VXI instruments using instrument drivers, the interactive Instrument I/O Assistant, and built-in instrument I/O libraries.

Image Acquisition

For acquiring images into LabVIEW, NI provides a wide range of hardware and software products, featuring support for thousands of cameras, superior image quality, advanced triggering, and easy-to-use driver software. Hardware options range from plug-in frame grabber cards for PCI, PXI/CompactPCI, and PCI Express to the stand-alone Compact Vision System.

Motion Control

LabVIEW integrates with motion control configuration and prototyping software, motion controllers, and power drives for connecting to servo, stepper, and piezo-based actuators. LabVIEW provides solutions for simple, repetitive motion control to coordinated multiaxis motion control with plug-in, distributed, and custom motion controllers.

Modular Instruments

Use LabVIEW to develop mixed-signal applications using the latest PC and commercial technology. Speed your time to market by investing in a flexible, user-defined instrumentation platform that employs RF instruments, high-speed digitizers, signal generators, multimeters, high-speed digital I/O, and more.

Industrial Monitoring and Control

LabVIEW provides powerful tools for distributed monitoring systems, with connectivity to a wide variety of distributed I/O devices, including PLCs and NI CompactFieldPoint. Compact FieldPoint provides industrial-grade performance and unmatched software integration with LabVIEW Real-Time, so you easily can configure, build, and maintain reliable distributed I/O solutions.

Switching Solutions

LabVIEW integrates with a wide variety of quality switching solutions, including general-purpose relays, multiplexers, and matrices, to switch high-voltage, high-current, and high-frequency signals.

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