Labview Stories

LabVIEW is one of the key components of many of the essential devices we use every day. From the perfect packaging of snacks to lab tests, collecting electric signals from ECG machines to testing the safety of toys and cars, it is behind most of the major machines, making many things in our lives work smoothly and safely.

Dataflow programming The programming paradigm used in LabVIEW, sometimes called G, is based on data availability. If there is enough data available to a subVI or function, that subVI or function will execute. Execution flow is determined by the structure of a graphical block diagram (the LabVIEW-source code) on which the programmer connects different function-nodes by drawing wires. These wires propagate variables and any node can execute as soon as all its input data become available. Since this might be the case for multiple nodes simultaneously, LabVIEW can execute inherently in parallel.[3]:1-2 Multi-processing and multi-threading hardware is exploited automatically by the built-in scheduler, which multiplexes multiple OS threads over the nodes ready for execution.