LabVIEW Pages

This page is the starting point for LabVIEW activities and documentation etc.

Installation and Usage

Installation on MS-Windows

Refer to NISoftwareInstallation for details where to get the software and to configure the license manager.

The following steps are important.

Linux

Since October 2007, the IT department at GSI no longer supports LabVIEW on the Debian-Linux cluster at GSI, see LabVIEWonDebianLinuxSurvey. If you really need LabVIEW on Linux, the following possibilities exist.

Using LabVIEW

• It is recommended, that you use LabVIEW with your normal account without administrator rights.
• Use a dedicated path on the local disk or your network drive to store LabVIEW source code.
• After starting LabVIEW for the first time,
  1. goto "Tools->Options"
  2. set your desired options in all categories
  3. exit and restart LabVIEW.

LabVIEW Documentation

• NIs starting point for LabVIEW documentation
• A LabVIEW Basic I/II Multimedia Course is available on our file Server.

• GSI-Employees also can get access to the self-paced training provided by NI.
  • Please send an eMail to HolgerBrand for details.
• Recommend white papers
  • Buffered Network-Published Shared Variables: Components and Architecture
  • Advanced Programming with NI-DAQmx

LabVIEW Projects

Follwing some links to LabVIEW projects @ GSI

• CS Framework
• Targetscanner
• PHELIX Control System
• LabVIEWInstrumentDriver
• LabVIEWObjectOrientedProgramming
• BioProjekts
• Projects of AlexanderWiest
  • UsbFpgaCommunication: This is a project to communicate from PC via USB to a FPGA using LabVIEW 2011 SP1.
• LabVIEW FPGA
  
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  • SpartanStarterKitFPGA - LabVIEW FPGA with the Xilinx SPARTAN-3E Starter Kit
  • XRayBolometerReadout - A NI-RIO(FPGA) board is used to acquire x-ray bolometer signals.
    • Maximum 200kSample/s analog input, filtering an smoothing
    • Fixed size pre-trigger buffer and configurable post-trigger samples (DMA-transfer)
    • Individual external or signal threshold trigger on rising or falling edge.

TDMS Tools

• ConcatenateTDMS
  Application to select channels of TDMS files and concatenate them into one new TDMS file.

DMSSync
This application allows to copy changed files or directory trees from source path to target path, e.g. file server file to a corresponding local disc, to update them before usage. It can be used interactively or in a batch file with command line parameters.

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• GPL licensed source under development can be found in our git repository. Current version is LV2019.
• This project is part of the Domain Management System.

Vision Tools

• ImagesToAVIApplication and installer are available on Scratch.
  • ImagesToAVI.vi is used to convert multiple images contained in an folder to an AVI file. Frame rate can be configured.
  • ImagesToAVI.rtm is the corresponding menue file.

XControls
This section links to the description of XControls developed at GSI.

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• Boolean2PB1I
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• TrendingWithHistogramm
  

DSC Custom-IO-Server

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• NIInstSim-IO-Server
  This project serves for educational purpose, how to develop and use a Custom-IO-Server, to connect VISA instrument properties to shared variables. The LabVIEW project is available via Git: http://gitorious.gsi.de/brand/niinstrsimioserver
• Acc-IO-Server
  This IO-Server provides a simple interface to the GSI accelerator control system using shared variables. The LabVIEW project is available via Git: Acc-IO-Server, you also need ACC_LabVIEW_Interface.

NI Actor Framework

• DIMActor
  LabVIEW 2012 Project used to develop and maintain an actor anchestor class providing a DIM interface. It is using the LabVIEW-DIM Interface. It is published on https://git.gsi.de/EE-LV/CSPP/CSPP_DIM.
• CS++
  Successor of the CS Framework and is based on LVOOP and the NI Actor Framework.
  Published on https://git.gsi.de/EE-LV/CSPP/CSPP.
  • CSPP-Poster.pdf: Poster with basic functionalities of the NI Actor Framework and the CS++ libraries.

VI-Analyzer

• Disable Automated Error Handling with options for VI-Type selection. Refer to LabVIEWForum.

Collaborative Tools

• SourceCodeControl

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