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When waveforms are mean to you
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ITK (In the know). A journey in LabVIEW development. When waveforms are mean to you. June 27, 2015. By Fabiola De La Cueva. This blog post should be filed under the Public Service Announcement category. Recently, a customer contacted me with an issue he was observing when averaging a voltage measurement. He insisted that mean.vi was calculating the mean incorrectly! The code we were using was:. Array of waveforms to Mean.vi. Since the DAQmx task in the original code was configured to a single channel, we...
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Humility and Better Programming, Part 1 | LabVIEW Field Journal
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Advanced LabVIEW with the NI Field Architects. Humility and Better Programming, Part 1. By Brian on May 29, 2013. I am not a particularly clever programmer. Or at least, I try not to be. I like simple code because frankly, I’m not really smart enough to understand code that looks like spaghetti. Edsger W. Dijkstra. Soon after starting at NI, it became clear to me that one of the shortcomings of my formal university education was that I didn’t have much experience writing code. I learned to program outsid...
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Humility and Better Programming, Part 5 | LabVIEW Field Journal
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Advanced LabVIEW with the NI Field Architects. Humility and Better Programming, Part 5. By Brian on June 11, 2013. Programs, like any other human-made objects, are designed or should be designed with a definite lifespan and scope of application in mind. Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming. I was thinking that the need for maintainability emphasized simplicity. She was looking down the road a bit, thinking the customer was going to need more flexibility than would have been afforde...
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Single best ever (yet little known) feature in LabVIEW
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ITK (In the know). A journey in LabVIEW development. Single best ever (yet little known) feature in LabVIEW. July 6, 2015. Have you ever written a program with no errors in it, that was right first time? If so, you have led a charmed life my friend, congratulations. Of the IDE, the instant gratification of seeing our code execute and the satisfaction of seeing the impact of the quick changes we make. We also have cool debugging tools such as probes, execution highlighting and single stepping. Well people...
