Product Description

Advanced LabVIEW Labs provides a structured introduction to LabVIEW-based laboratory skills. The book can be used as a stand-alone tutorial or as a college-level instructional lab text. The reader learns the LabVIEW programming language while writing meaningful programs that explore useful data analysis techniques (numerical integration and differentiation, least-squares curve-fitting, Fast Fourier Transform) and the mechanics of computer-based experimentation using National Instruments DAQ and GPIB boards. During the course of the book, the reader constructs and investigates the proper usage of several computer-based instruments including a digitizing oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer and PID temperature control system as well as learns to control an instrument through the General Purpose Interface Bus.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #240742 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 397 pages

Review
Written by Reed College Professor John Essick, this book systematically teaches LabVIEW-based research skills in a hands-on, user-friendly manner throughout -- National Instruments Instrumentation Newsletter, Fourth Quarter 1999

excellent self-paced book..readers learn the LabVIEW programming language then use it to perform interesting and challenging labs..I highly recommend this book. -- LabVIEW Technical Resource, Volume 7-3, Winter 2000

excellent text...any programmer trying to learn how to interface computers to instruments and to understand programming language concepts should read this book. -- Physics Today, December 1999

From the Back Cover
Advanced LabVIEW Labs provides a structured introduction to LabVIEW-based laboratory skills. The book can be used as a stand-alone tutorial or as a college-level instructional lab text. The reader learns the LabVIEW programming language while writing meaningful programs that explore useful data analysis techniques (numerical integration and differentiation, least-squares curve-fitting, Fast Fourier Transform) and the mechanics of computer-based experimentation using National Instruments DAQ and GPIB boards. During the course of the book, the reader constructs and investigates the proper usage of several computer-based instruments including a digitizing oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer and PID temperature control system as well as learns to control an instrument through the General Purpose Interface Bus.

Customer Reviews

Great book !
I bought the book last week and since then I can't stop reading it and going through the well presented Labs. I find the book very interesting, well written ,to the point and clear. It will get you up to speed with Labview quickly. I own other Labview books but this is the only one that I didn't find boring or confusing. This is definitely a book I would recommend to all the students who want to learn Labview in a short period of time and also to the instructors; it can be a great teaching tool ! Finally, the price is ...very affordable. Great book ! ...

Excellent but dated
As all the other reviewers have noted, this is an excellent book. I used it for a class I taught on LabVIEW and both the students and I liked the book. The problem is that it was written for LabVIEW 5. There is a 32 page online update available for the many changes between version 5 and 6.1 but that was a pain and even that is now two years out of date. (To get it, do a Google search for "John Essick" then go to his home page and follow the obvious link.) You had to keep remembering to refer to the update list or you had to go through the book and make notes that would remind you to see the updates.
This is a wonderful book. But as of this review LabVIEW 7 is now the standard version and this book is now two versions out of date. I would be thrilled if Essick would write an updated version.
When I learned LabVIEW I used 3 or 4 different books (along with the poor quality manual that came with the original software) and Advanced LabVIEW Labs was a godsend. It taught me the software in language ment for scientists and I immediately connected with it. I'm sorry that I can no longer use it for my class and am now looking for a newer book.

Start here!
I needed a new software platform for data acquisition following the demise of an older platform. All of my friends at various national laboratories were using LabVIEW so it was a natural choice. I then started looking for a "directed tutorial" that would get me up to speed for data acquisition without first mastering the vast multitude of LabVIEW features (until I really needed them). I found Essick's book to be head and shoulders above the other novice-level books I tried (which were helpful but were taking too long). My undergraduate research students now first encounter LabVIEW with the guidance of this clear, concise, and well-written book. It would also be my first choice as a textbook for a class on LabVIEW (or on data acquisition techniques in general). I recommend this book very highly.