Integrating Data Acquisition and Instrument Control with Your Scilab Scripts Darcy Dement Marketing Director National Instruments France
[email protected] Who We Are 800 700 •Leaders in Computer-based Measurement and Automation 600 •Long-term track record of NI HQ growth and profitability 500 •$677M revenue in 2009 400 •More than 5,100 employees; operations in 40+ countries 300 •Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to 200 Work For 11 consecutive years •16% invested in R&D 100 0 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 2 What We Do Low-Cost Modular Productive Software Highly Integrated Hardware for Development Tools Systems Platforms Measurement and Control Used By Engineers and Scientists for Test, Design, and Control 3 The Numerical Mathematics Consortium http://www.nmconsortium.org/ 4 Discussion Topics: Connecting Math with the Physical World • Need for adding interactivity & instrumentation • A software option for interfacing with the physical world: NI LabVIEW • Using Scilab with LabVIEW • Use cases • Demo • Technical information 5 Textual Math Strengths • Scripted math • Sequential order of execution • Vector and matrix operations • Algorithm design for signal processing • Familiarity • User network and community 6 Need for Instrumentation & Interactivity • Acquire real-world data • Perform frequency • Visualize data with with hardware analysis, probability, professional user • Generate real stimuli statistics, math, curve interfaces • Control any of 1000’s of fitting, interpolation,