LabVIEW has such a versatile graphical user interface and is so easy to program with, it is also ideal for simulations, presentation of ideas, general programming, or even teaching basic programming concepts.

LabVIEW offers more flexibility than standard laboratory instruments because it is software-based. You, not the instrument manufacturer, define instrument functionality. Your computer, plug-in hardware, and LabVIEW comprise a completely configurable virtual instrument to accomplish your tasks. Using LabVIEW, you can create exactly the type of virtual instrument you need, when you need it, at a fraction of the cost of traditional instruments. When your needs change, you can modify your virtual instrument in moments.

LabVIEW tries to make your life as hassle-free as possible. It has extensive libraries of functions and subroutines to help you with most programming tasks, without the fuss of pointers, memory allocation, and other arcane programming problems found in conventional programming languages. LabVIEW also contains application-specific libraries of code for data acquisition (DAQ), General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB), and serial instrument control, data analysis, data presentation, data storage, and communication over the Internet. The Analysis Library contains a multitude of useful functions, including signal generation, signal processing, filters, windows, statistics, regression, linear algebra, and array arithmetic.

LabVIEW's programs are portable across platforms, so you can write a program on a Macintosh and then load and run it on a Windows machine without changing a thing in most applications. You will find LabVIEW applications improving operations in any number of industries, from every kind of engineering and process control to biology, farming, psychology, chemistry, physics, teaching, and many others.

Course Objectives:

1. Introduce the fundamentals of virtual instrumentation and graphical programming using LabVIEW
2. Learn to use LabVIEW to create basic applications
3. Use National Instruments hardware such as DAQ boards and compactRIO (cRIO) with LabVIEW to create practical applications

Course Outcomes

1. Ability to model Complex system
2. Ability to use Graphical Programming Language
3. Ability to Simulate and Test behavior of System
4. Ability to use various Hardware interface with Graphical Programming Language
5. Ability to improve Programming Skills
6. Improving Capabilities to build Portable platform independent software

Industries where this course will be useful
In India, the main users of LabVIEW are

1. Alliance partners of National Instruments like Captronic Systems ,Soliton, Apna etc.
2. Govt. Research establishments.
3. MNC Software service companies like HCL, Wipro, Infosys etc.
4. Product companies (GE, Nokia,Moog etc)

Who should attend the course?

1. Engineers/technicians and students preparing to develop applications using LabVIEW or NI Developer Suite
2. Users pursuing the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer certification

LabVIEW, short for Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench, is a programming environment in which you create programs using a graphical notation (connecting functional nodes via wires through which data flows); in this regard, it differs from traditional programming languages like C, C++, or Java, in which you program with text. However, LabVIEW is much more than a programming language. It is an interactive program development and execution system designed for people, like scientists and engineers, who need to program as part of their jobs. LabVIEW development environment works on computers running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux. LabVIEW can create programs that run on those platforms, as well as Microsoft Pocket PC, Microsoft Windows CE, Palm OS, and a variety of embedded platforms, including Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), and microprocessors. LabVIEW program development environment is different from standard C or Java development systems in one important respect: While other programming systems use text-based languages to create lines of code, LabVIEW uses a graphical programming language, often called "G," to create programs in a pictorial form called a block diagram. Graphical programming eliminates a lot of the syntactical details associated with text-based languages, such as where to put your semicolons and curly braces. (If you don't know how text-based languages use these, don't worry. With LabVIEW, you don't need to know!). Graphical programming allows you to concentrate on the flow of data within your application because its simple syntax doesn't obscure what the program is doing. 

In this course, participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of virtual instrumentation and graphical programming using LabVIEW from National Instruments. With virtual instrumentation, engineers use graphical programming software to create user-defined solutions that meet their specific needs, which is a great alternative to proprietary, fixed-functionality traditional instruments. After completing the course, participants will have acquired a basic knowledge of the LabVIEW programming language. National Instruments LabVIEW is a highly productive development environment for creating custom applications that interact with real-world data or signals in fields such as science and engineering. It is an industry-leading software tool for designing test, measurement, and control systems. The LabVIEW platform provides specific tools and models to meet specific application challenges, ranging from designing signal processing algorithms to making voltage measurements, and can target any number of platforms from the desktop to embedded devices – with an intuitive, powerful graphical programming platform.