Thank you for sending your enquiry! One of our team members will contact you shortly.
Thank you for sending your booking! One of our team members will contact you shortly.
Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Recap of LabVIEW Fundamentals
- Review of the dataflow execution model and multithreading concepts.
- Overview of variables, clusters, arrays, and standard data types.
- Practical work with loops and sequence structures.
Advanced Control Structures
- Limitations of Flat Sequence structures and cycle control techniques.
- Alternative approaches to flat sequences.
- Effective error handling strategies in advanced architectures.
Parallel and Queued State Machines
- Building scalable and responsive applications.
- State machine design patterns.
- Designing producer-consumer architectures.
Optimizing Shift Registers
- Using shift registers to store and manage state data.
- Scope management and recommended best practices.
- Preventing race conditions and unintended data overwrites.
Advanced Data Types and Structures
- Working with nested clusters and user-defined types.
- Best practices for typedefs and code maintenance.
- Managing multi-dimensional arrays.
LabVIEW to PLC Communication
- Ethernet/IP communication with Allen-Bradley PLCs (ControlLogix/CompactLogix).
- Reading and writing clusters and user-defined data.
- Handling multi-dimensional arrays over Ethernet/IP.
Effective Use of Property Nodes
- Understanding the scope and execution timing of property nodes.
- Distinguishing between property nodes for UI manipulation and hardware control.
- Identifying and avoiding performance bottlenecks.
Course Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Prior experience with LabVIEW and its core components.
- A solid understanding of data types, control structures, and graphical programming principles.
Target Audience
- Software engineers developing advanced LabVIEW applications.
- Test automation developers integrating LabVIEW with industrial systems.
- Engineers looking to optimize and scale existing LabVIEW systems.
