NIDays 2011 - Presentations

Track A

Tips and tricks to speed up application development in LabVIEW - Johan Hillegren (National Instruments)
Attend this presentation that covers a wide variety of tips and tricks to help you write LabVIEW code quicker. Learn simple techniques that can be used in every project to improve LabVIEW programming speed.

Four steps to professional LabVIEW development - Morten Pedersen (CIM)
CIM has evolved to become a leading KnowHouse in Europe in the development of systems based on NI TestStand and LabVIEW software. CIM have with a targeted strategy, evolved from being an adhoc-driven company to a dedicated and complete organization working with knowledge development, structured program development and project management. With 5 CLAs, CIM has cemented its position as Europe's leading NI knowledge company. We will in this session open for our movement over the last 8 years and present the four most important steps in our evolution.

Design fundamentals - Mattias Ericsson (AddQ Consulting)            
Designing software is hard and designing reusable software is even harder. This presentation is about designing software system, things to consider and things to avoid. Reusable and flexible design is difficult if not impossible to get “right” the first time, but with a few simple rules to consider, your software will be better design and more flexible.

Developing web-based interfaces to control LabVIEW applications - Espen Ringness (National Instruments)
In many measurement and control applications, remote monitoring through web browsers is required. The new LabVIEW Web UI Builder addresses this need. The LabVIEW Web UI Builder is a tool for developing lightweight, web-based applications that connect to your I/O system. In this presentation you will learn how LabVIEW Web UI Builder combines your remote  LabVIEW application, RESTful Web services (or other Web Services) and a user interface, into a remote monitoring application.

Track B

LabVIEW templates for common data acquisition applications - Erik van Hilten (National Instruments)

Are you tired of starting from a blank VI every time you begin a new project? Do you have problems trying to scale an NI-DAQmx example into a full application? Look at some extensible LabVIEW templates for common data acquisition applications.

The right development process for LabVIEW FPGA success (*) - Jimmie Adolph (National Instruments)
There are a lot of wrong ways to approach a LabVIEW FPGA design. As with anything you do, starting the project in a wrong way, and following the wrong process along the way, will likely create undesirable results in the end. Learn a  succesfull  design process and design patterns for developing LabVIEW FPGA code in this presentation.

Best practices for building professional User Interfaces with LabVIEW (*) - Klas Anderson (National Instruments)
This session will explain best practices for designing professional user interfaces in LabVIEW.  Learn how to customize the front panel and create reusable UI components that comply with standard OS themes.  See examples of highly interactive data displays, configuration dialogs and ways to show a large amount of data while ensuring the usability of the application.

Software engineering for industrial systems (*) - Marcus Johnson (Symbio)
We will present reusable code-modules, classes and design patterns useful when building mission critical distributed systems, like for example RT systems.
• Host communication
• Machine safety
• Error handling
• Execution control and general architecture

Track C
 

Simplifying high-speed waveform acquisition on CompactRIO - Magnus Andersson (Wireflow)           
FPGA programming on a CompactRIO system can get complicated quickly, especially when dealing with the high-bandwidth requirements of high-speed waveform acquisition. learn about an architecture that provides a starting point in the FPGA with built-in performance optimization as well as a LabVIEW API experience for calling the FPGA from the LabVIEW Real-Time Module.

Digitizing Prevas Frequency band shifter using LabVIEW FPGA - Hans Nystrom (Prevas)
Prevas provides an analogue based frequency band shifter based on PXI. As the RF chain is analogue the functionality is limited. As our customers requests more functionality we have added a digital path in the RF chain using the NI FPGA technology.  Our presentation shows how this is implemented and what additional functionality it provides.

Using LabVIEW as the solid foundation for the development of a true modular, flexible and reusable, PC-board test platform - Peter van Oostrom & Raimon Pousa (6TL Engineering)
NI Alliance member 6TL Engineering, is a well-established Engineering company with over 25 years of experience building and designing modules that can easily be combined in an energy efficient test system oriented Test rack, (In-line or Off-line) to form a flexible, re-usable test platform with as little as possible internal wiring. Using distributed intelligence through CanBus, a Reliable Mass Interconnect Interface from VPC and National Instruments LabVIEW as the spill to combine these modules to form the reliable 6TL Base Test Platform.

Using plug-in architecture in a LabVIEW application - Andreas Lindquist (ENEA)
How to design your application to handle plug-in functionality. Review different approaches of dynamically calling external code to make your application more scalable, pitfalls and opportunities.

 
 (*) These presentations are considered to be interesting for 'Advanced' LabVIEW users.