Learning electronics with LabView

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Dec 11, 2002, 11:22:59 AM12/11/02

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I am interested in learning LabView, and at the same time learning
electronics by using LabView. There are several books I have found on
the market which teach electronics using LabView, but these all seem
to require that the student have actual electronics on a lab bench;
and a special card inside the PC to connect to the electronics.

I am looking for a book, with accompanying software, that includes not
only LabView (or a student version of LabView), but also a simulation
of electronic circuits. The idea is that the student should be able
to design an electronic circuit using virtual components on screen,
and then monitor the circuit's behavior using LabView. Can anyone
recommend any book like this?

Steve O.
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Dec 14, 2002, 12:54:12 PM12/14/02

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Rene Tschaggelar

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Dec 14, 2002, 3:06:33 PM12/14/02

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Labview is an especially bad example.
As programming literate it was epecially frustrating
to spend days on trying to put wires through walls,
for trivialities that could have been solved with a
few lines of code.

Rene
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Eric Inazaki

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Dec 14, 2002, 6:18:01 PM12/14/02

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In article <3DFB8F49...@dplanet.ch>, Rene Tschaggelar <tscha...@dplanet.ch> wrote:

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> Labview is an especially bad example.
> As programming literate it was epecially frustrating
> to spend days on trying to put wires through walls,
> for trivialities that could have been solved with a
> few lines of code.
>
> Rene

If all you're doing is "trivial" projects then maybe Labview isn't
the best choice. But once you get past the initial adjustment in
mindset, it becomes pretty easy (I'd like to say very easy) to scale
up to more elaborate or sophisticated projects. Also, if you have a
lot of experience in some other programming environment you probably
won't see as much of a payoff in using Labview.

Eric Inazaki

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Dec 14, 2002, 6:33:09 PM12/14/02

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Have you tried the labview newsgroup (comp.lang.labview)? Also,
http://www.info-labview.org may have something you could use, including
a link to the labview mailing list.

Rene Tschaggelar

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Dec 15, 2002, 10:57:48 AM12/15/02

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I never made it past trivialities, such as reading some values and
doing some calulations. Shortly after, they released LabWindows,
based on a C Compiler with all the libraries necessary to interface
to the various instruments. Thous I didn't try it, that's what I'd
recommend instaed of LabView.
LabView was designed for scientists not able to do some programming.
Here, programming experience is required. Be it with whatever.

Rene

Richie086

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Jan 1, 2003, 1:38:42 AM1/1/03

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hmm.. not that i know of. Software is alright for simulating circuits most
of the time but i've run into countless errors when using programs like
labview, electronics workbench, ect....

i would reccomend buying a cheap breadboard, a resistor assortment pack,
capacitor assortment pack and some hookup wire..

doing circuits on a computer might be easyier to setup, but without the
actual hands on experience with components, your gonna have big problems
when it comes to having to work with real circuits and real components..