A LabView short course
Introduction to Data Acquisition with LabView, by Robert H. King, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, New York, NY (www.mhhe.com), 2009. 288 pages. $115.63.
By Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor -- Test & Measurement World, 5/1/2009 2:00:00 AM
The cover of this book tells you everything you need to know about it: It's a textbook on using LabView for data acquisition. If you have a National Instruments data-acquisition card (as shown on the book's cover) and you use the NI-DAQmx driver, you can learn how to automate your measurements. You can also use this book with other National Instruments data-acquisition hardware that uses the DAQmx driver, such as the company's USB-based instruments. But the book won't help you if you use GPIB instruments.
The author, who uses the book in his college-level course, uses a temperature-measurement application to walk readers through the steps involved in data acquisition. He explains how to develop code and how to display measurements with clean, usable interfaces. Readers will learn about timing, state machines, arrays, shift registers, and charts, as well as how to use LabView's DAQ Assistant graphical interface and other time-saving tools.
King does a superior job of explaining how to use LabView through programs and examples that readers can use right away. So, if you have or can get a National Instruments data-acquisition card and you need to learn how to make measurements, this book is for you. Readers who lack an NI data-acquisition card will be in trouble after chapter 1, where King explains how to write a simple LabView program. I enjoyed that experience, but I have an instrument connected to my computer through GPIB, and there isn't enough information in the book to learn how to make measurements over that bus and get data into LabView.
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