What is Data Acquisition? What is LABView?

1. Please give some simple sentences for Data Acquisition.

2. Does anyone use LabVIEW? Please tell what application you make?

Data acquisition is the process of gathering information in an automated fashion from analog and digital measurement sources such as sensors and devices under test. Data acquisition uses a combination of PC-based measurement hardware and software to provide a flexible, user-defined measurement system.

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For more go to National Instruments web site:
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Also, you will find there a comprehensive discription of LabView, including examples.
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IanP

it is to acquire several information about the process you control and to generate the suitable reaction for these information to the process itself.

labview is a unique tool, it uses the G-language in programming (graphical language), it consists of two screens :the user interface, and the programming screen.

in user interface you'll see switches,leds,graphs.. etc. while in programming screen you'll be able to use the basic if..then..else..,for...next,while...wend.
so if you know the c++ or any programming language you can easily learn it.

labview is used for data acquisition and to make reports about plants or processes it is a powerful tool for servo control and plc control, and so its industrial version (BRIDGEVIEW).

i have used labview in my graduation project, we made an optimal digital PID controller for a temperature control sysetm.