5.1. Overview

LabView is a powerful tool in testing, measurement, and industrial automation applications and has been widely applied in industrial applications and scientific research fields. With LabView Virtual Instrumentation (VI), electrical signals—such as voltage, current, and power—and physical phenomena—such as temperature, pressure, speed, and vibration—can be measured, analyzed, and controlled accurately in real time.

Unlike traditional measurement instruments, VI provides not only a real-time measurement environment but also a Graphic User Interface (GUI), which is much more convenient to users. It is the VI that makes systemic data acquisitions, measurements, analysis, and controls much easier by combining software tools and hardware ...

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