LabVIEW Graphical Development Platform. Part I An Open Platform for Long-Term Continuity

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1 LabVIEW Graphical Development Platform Part I An Open Platform for Long-Term Continuity

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3 Introduction For 20 years, scientists and engineers have been using LabVIEW to build automated data acquisition and instrument control solutions for their design labs, validation labs, and production floors. Over this time, LabVIEW has evolved and improved through many new releases and extensions based on active user feedback and experimentation, to the point that LabVIEW has become a de facto industry standard for these application areas (see Figure 1). At its core, the LabVIEW graphical programming language has enabled technical professionals with no formal programming training or background to build advanced automated measurement and control systems very quickly. But LabVIEW has evolved into much more than just a programming language. LabVIEW has a widespread collection of tools that make up a graphical development platform for design, control, and test. This paper outlines the core technical components of the LabVIEW platform that has enabled it to deliver unprecedented productivity to so many users over the past two decades, and reviews the breadth of application tools and libraries that are driving the LabVIEW platform into new industries and markets. National Instruments LabVIEW Microsoft Visual Basic Microsoft Visual C++ The MathWorks, Inc. MATLAB National Instruments LabWindows/CVI Figure 1. Most-Used Software for Data Acquisition and Instrument Control Product Awareness Study Conducted by Reed Research Group, Sponsored by National Instruments, Q MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc. LabVIEW A De Facto Standard Further proof of the popularity of the LabVIEW platform can be found simply by browsing the Web. Through casual searching with your favorite Internet search engine, you might discover that LabVIEW offers integration with the following resources More than 4,000 instruments from more than 150 vendors More than 1,000 PXI devices from more than 65 vendors More than 200 instruments through IVI drivers More than 150 cameras from 18 vendors National Instruments Corporation 1

4 More than 100 PLCs More than 40 motion stage controllers More than 10 Sensors Plug&Play vendors More than 800 system integrators with LabVIEW experience Clearly, LabVIEW is gaining traction in many different dimensions. This success starts with a platform view of the problem. The Merging Worlds of Virtual and Physical Data With the explosion of engineering technology over the past 20 years whether from semiconductor performance improvements and size reduction through Moore s Law, the ubiquity of computers and microprocessors in every industry, or the advancement of communication standards and networking engineers must deal with an equally challenging explosion of complexity when designing, building, or testing a new product. Manual processes in these areas have given way to computer-based automated tools for design, simulation, control, inspection, and test. As the technology has improved, the challenge moves from automating individual steps or processes to integrating different tools and technologies, to automate and streamline the entire process. The best tool for a particular function loses momentum when it cannot integrate with other tools in the process. Because of this complexity, the engineers and scientists are now in need of more than just the best point solutions for the myriad tasks they must complete, but instead need a development platform that can provide a consistent foundation for compatibility and productivity Nowhere has the move toward automation been more pronounced than in the design discipline. Whether designing electronic chips and printed circuit boards, mechanical structures, or communications signal chains, most designers in these areas start with a software tool for designing the product. A common next step is to run these designs through simulation tools in an attempt to predict their performance in several dimensions. With many of these design tools, users can import designs into separate simulation tools for this early design evaluation. From there, the next step involves automated layout or model formation and tooling to automate the actual build process. In any design and development flow, a very clear distinction exists between the virtual world of software-based design, and simulation tools in the physical world of electronic or mechanical measurement. This divide between the virtual and the physical is where the LabVIEW platform delivers the most obvious value. Physical measurement is a completely different kind of challenge than design and simulation. Physical measurements require tight integration with a wide variety of measurement and control hardware, with optimized performance to handle huge channel counts (for the large-scale data logging required for stress-testing an airplane wing) or ultrahigh-speed throughput (RF communications testing). The LabVIEW platform has evolved to deliver unmatched performance and flexibility in the area of physical measurements. More importantly, the LabVIEW platform is open, so designers can map their measurement data against their simulation results, or even interchange their simulation and physical data for behavioral modeling in design or 2 ni.com

5 for driving physical tests with simulated stimuli. Even the most advanced design and simulation platforms, which encompass the latest algorithms and computer science, do not consider solving the challenges of the physical measurement part of their charter. Engineers who recognize the need to bridge this gap between virtual and physical measurement and control are the first to grasp the importance of a platform-based approach for technical design, simulation, measurement, and control. As shown in Figure 2, physical measurement data takes on new significance throughout the entire product life cycle, and is not limited to the production control or validation testing steps that occur relatively late in the process. Figure 2. Measurements throughout the Design and Development Life Cycle The Importance of Openness If engineers are to take advantage of physical measurement data, they must employ a measurement platform that is open and compatible with their design and simulation platform of choice. The popularity of the LabVIEW platform has led to wide-scale adoption in many different design disciplines, resulting in a broad collection of integration tools, libraries, and file formats linking LabVIEW data with different design and simulation tools (see Figure 3). In addition to integration with these specific tools, LabVIEW also offers to a wide array of software standards for integration on both sides of the equation with other software tools and packages, or with a variety of measurement resources, including: DLLs, shared libraries ActiveX, COM, and.net (Microsoft) DDE, TCP/IP, UDP, Ethernet, Bluetooth CAN, DeviceNet, ModBus, OPC USB, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), RS232/485, GPIB Databases (ADO, SQL, etc.) Using these general-purpose standards for communicating with both hardware and software resources, LabVIEW users can generally find a way to exchange and reuse their data when necessary. National Instruments Corporation 3

6 XMath, The MathWorks, Inc. MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, MathCAD, IDL Math Educational Equipment LEGO Mindstorms, Vernier, PASCO SPICE, Multisim, PSpice, Ansoft Electronic Design and Automation Control System Design (simulation) SystemBuild, The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink, Quanser, ECP MSC.ADAMS Mechanical Design Embedded (Design) Metrowerks, TI s Code Composer Studio, Hyperception MATLAB and Simulink are registered trademarks of The MathWorks, Inc. Other product names herein are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. The Importance of Continuity Figure 3. LabVIEW Integration with Engineering Tools As the engineering product life cycle has moved into the virtual world of software-based design and development, it has become more exposed to the double-edged sword of software productivity incredible advances in productivity through automation versus dealing with incredibly fast-changing software technologies upon which you must build a foundation. Engineers and scientists are using software and the personal computer as a means to a better end, whereas in other industries such as IT and Internet or enterprise-focused solutions the software is in fact the end. The competitive forces in the software industry drive vendors to build up whole ecosystems of technologies, development tools, and experts only to tear them down and replace them with entirely new architectures and foundations. Although this may work for the software industry, other industries involved in designing and manufacturing products (automobiles, communications, materials, etc.) are merely looking for ways to streamline their core competencies in design and development. Engineers in these industries need to build on a platform that can guarantee longer-term stability and continuity over multiple generations of their products. Designers need to be able to iterate and evolve their designs over years without replacing their entire set of tools or relearning different methodologies for design and measurement. 4 ni.com

7 Language OSs Technologies Basic Corba VBX OCX ActiveX COM.NET UNIX (Solaris/Linux) Windows Mac Java C/C s 1990 s 2000 s Figure 4. Constellation of Technologies in OSs, Integrations, and Programming Languages Long-term continuity has been a hallmark of the LabVIEW platform since its inception in First introduced on the Macintosh because it was the only platform that could deliver the graphics required for the LabVIEW graphical programming language, LabVIEW has navigated through the sea change of software, communications, and OS technologies over the past 20 years always preserving the investment of the user s code intact. The LabVIEW multiplatform philosophy is to provide a common foundation upon which users can build solutions and easily run them on different OSs Mac OS X, Windows, or UNIX (Linux). However, on each of these platforms, LabVIEW users can incorporate OS-specific technologies, such as ActiveX or.net on Windows, to enhance their solutions. Following this approach, users can optimize their solutions in two dimensions for full functionality on a particular OS or for maximum portability to ensure long-term preservation of their investment. By always supporting a mechanism for moving users through changing technologies, LabVIEW has managed to add new users along the way without alienating or abandoning users on specific technologies (see Figure 4). This is particularly important for scientists or engineers, who need to take advantage of the latest technologies without developing themselves into a corner. National Instruments Corporation 5

8 Conclusion Please refer to the remaining papers in this series for more information about the LabVIEW platform: LabVIEW Graphical Development Platform, Part II Core Technical Advantages of LabVIEW, B-01 LabVIEW Graphical Development Platform, Part III An Integrated Platform for Design, Control, and Test, B-01 *342539B-01* B-01 Mar North Mopac Expressway Austin, TX USA Tel: (512) Fax: (512) National Instruments Corporation. All rights reserved. CVI, National Instruments, NI, ni.com, and LabVIEW are trademarks of National Instruments Corporation. Refer to the Terms of Use section on ni.com/legal for more information about National Instrumentstrademarks. FireWire is the registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. MATLAB and Simulink are registered trademarks of The MathWorks, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. For patents covering National Instruments products, refer to the appropriate location: Help»Patents in your software, the patents.txt file on your CD, or ni.com/patents.

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