National Instruments LabVIEW: A Programming Environment for Laboratory Automation and Measurement .
National Instruments LabVIEW is a graphical programming language that has its roots in automation control and data acquisition. Its graphical representation, similar to a process flow diagram, was created to provide an intuitive programming environment for scientists and engineers. The language has matured over the last 20 years to become a general purpose programming environment. LabVIEW has several key features which make it a good choice in an automation environment. These include simple network communication, turnkey implementation of common communication protocols (RS232, GPIB, etc.), powerful toolsets for process control and data fitting, fast and easy user interface construction, and an efficient code execution environment. We discuss the merits of the language and provide an example application suite written in-house which is used in integrating and controlling automation platforms.
Keywords: NI LabVIEW； graphical programming；system integration； instrument control；component based architecture； robotics； automation； static scheduling； dynamic scheduling； database.


美國國家儀器公司的LabVIEW ：一種實驗室自動化和測量的編程環(huán)境
美國國家儀器公司的LABVIEW是一種圖形化編程語言，它的根源在于自動化控制和數(shù)據(jù)采集。其圖形化的代表性，類似于過程流程圖，它為科學(xué)家和工程師提供一個直觀的編程環(huán)境，在過去20年中成熟歷程中，這個語言已經(jīng)成為一個通用的編程環(huán)境。 LABVIEW使得它成為很好的自動化選擇環(huán)境有幾個主要特點，這些措施包括簡單的網(wǎng)絡(luò)通信，交鑰匙執(zhí)行共同的通信協(xié)議（RS232 ， GPIB總線等），成為過程控制和數(shù)據(jù)擬合、快速簡便的用戶界面的建設(shè)和一個有效率的程式碼 執(zhí)行環(huán)境的強大工具。我們討論這種語言的優(yōu)點，并提供一個例子，在公司內(nèi)部是用來在整合和控制自動化平臺的應(yīng)用套件的書面。
關(guān)鍵詞：NI LABVIEW ；圖形化編程；系統(tǒng)集成；儀表控制；基于組件的體系結(jié)構(gòu)；機器人；自動化；靜態(tài)調(diào)度；動態(tài)調(diào)度；數(shù)據(jù)庫。