Appendix A
An Introduction to Graphical Programming with LabVIEW
Contributed by National Instruments
This appendix provides an overview of National Instruments LabVIEW and the LabVIEW Embedded Module for Blackfin Processors software.
A.1 WHAT IS LABVIEW?
LabVIEW is a full-featured graphical programming language and development environment for embedded system design. LabVIEW provides a single graphical design tool for algorithm development, embedded system design, prototyping, and interfacing with real-world hardware. Additional modules have been designed to expand the core functionalities of LabVIEW to real-time operating systems, DSP, and FPGA programming, making LabVIEW an ideal platform for signal processing algorithm design and implementation.
This section briefly introduces the LabVIEW development environment from installation and basic programming to system development. This material provides a high-level overview of the concepts necessary to be successful with LabVIEW and the LabVIEW Embedded Module for Blackfin Processors. Additional references to supplemental manuals and resources are provided for more in-depth information.
A.1.1 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Lines of Code
Graphical system design and prototyping opens the door to the masses in embedded development. The industry is confirming that higher levels of abstraction in embedded tools are needed, suggesting electronic system-level (ESL) design is an answer and citing concepts such as hardware/software co-design, ...
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