Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

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Subject:	New for Argonne National Laboratory Employees - Your Quarterly Newsletter from National Instruments
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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:20:09 -0500 (CDT)

Title: National Instruments - Newsletter

NI Newsletter  |  Argonne National Laboratory
New for Argonne National Laboratory employees. For those of you I have not already met, I am Jonathan Hildyard, your local National Instruments field engineer dedicated to ANL. This newsletter is a quarterly look into products, activities, application successes, and resources specific to Argonne. I am at your campus regularly, so call me at (773) 348-4392 today to arrange a time to meet. Please send me your feedback about this newsletter.
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control Systems (EPICS) The LabVIEW EPICS Client I/O Server leverages Shared Variable technology to give programmers the ability to easily communicate with EPICS Input/Output Controller (IOC) channels via Ethernet, log data into databases, set up custom triggering and alarming conditions, and publish IOC channel values via NI-PSP over the network. See Lab and Product News below for more information.
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Attend NIWeek 2007 and: • Network with more than 2,500 scientists, engineers, educators, and NI developers • Choose from 180 advanced technical presentations, hands-on workshops, case studies, and panel discussions • Learn about creating advanced test, control, and design solutions in daily keynotes • Improve your LabVIEW knowledge • Discover new products and solutions in more than 200 exhibitor booths and pavilions Date: August 7th - 9th, 2007 Location: Austin Convention Center - Austin, TX Early bird registration ends May 31, 2007. Request a presentation. Suggestions for topics are welcome! Please send me your ideas. Online Demonstrations, Tutorials, Advisors and Webcasts for Argonne National Laboratory Automated Test Summit 2007 Tuesday - May 8th, 2007 This fourth annual event, hosted by National Instruments, moves online this year providing a convenient way to access the latest technical information on automated test system design. View keynote presentations, ask questions in numerous technical sessions, and interact with representatives from top test companies through a virtual exhibition environment. Register now. Webcast on Demand Mechatronics Series I: Mechatronics Basics - Virtual Machine Prototyping Overview and Business Benefits View this webcast to learn how electromechanical simulation can bring your machine to life before you've ordered a single part: visualize motion, size motors, evaluate performance, design control logic, optimize throughput, and more. Then reuse the same software you created for simulating the machine when you transition the design from prototyping to high volume deployment. Webcast Quicklink Webcast on Demand A Look Inside Windows Vista, the next Microsoft Operating System Learn about new features in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, as well as security enhancements and the implications of a 64-bit operating system. This session will discuss the potential benefits and important changes that engineers must consider when developing test, measurement and control systems on Windows Vista. Webcast Quicklink Online Tutorial Real-Time on the Desktop PC View this tutorial to see how you can validate and convert a standard desktop or industrial PC into a National Instruments LabVIEW Real-Time target. Learn how to use the FREE desktop validator download to ensure your PC is capable of being an NI LabVIEW Real-Time target. Also explore how to create a USB boot drive to quickly boot your PC into a reliable real-time system that you can program with LabVIEW software. Webcast Quicklink Access more than 100 topics presented by National Instruments experts and partners. Training and Certification for ANL Engineers, Technicians, and Managers National Instruments training is the fastest, most certain route to productivity with NI tools and successful application development. National Instruments also offers certification programs for LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, and NI TestStand. Becoming a Certified Developer offers you recognition of expertise with NI products and technologies. Browse available NI training classes in Illinois. Lab and Product News - Engineering Solutions • LabVIEW EPICS Client I/O Server EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) is a set of open source software tools, libraries and applications developed collaboratively and used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems for scientific instruments such as a particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments. With the release of LabVIEW 8.20 National Instruments introduced a new powerful variable structure called the Shared Variable. The Shared Variable allows users to easily share and monitor data between LabVIEW VIs and networked computers. The LabVIEW EPICS Client I/O Server leverages Shared Variable technology to give programmers the ability to easily communicate with EPICS Input/Output Controller (IOC) channels via Ethernet. The LabVIEW EPICS Client I/O Server will empower users to log data into databases, set up custom triggering and alarming conditions, and publish IOC channel values via NI-PSP over the network. Learn more about this Argonne National Laboratory solution. • Detection and Protection of Superconducting Accelerator Magnets with LabVIEW and PXI Presented by R.H. Carcagno, Fermilab Challenge: Updating a superconducting accelerator magnet test system to be more portable and scalable. Solution : "Replacing the outdated system, composed of NIM and VME modules, with a single system based on NI LabVIEW software and PXI hardware. At Fermilab, we created our previous superconducting accelerator magnet test system at our Magnet Test Facility (MTF) from VME and NIM modules. We used this system for several years, and though it was very reliable, the system lacked the scalability required for a new series of tests we were developing. But with National Instruments software and hardware, we were able to design a system to meet all of our requirements, including quench protection." - R.H. Carcagno Learn more about this Fermilab solution. • Building a Nuclear Reactor Control System Upgrade with LabVIEW and NI FieldPoint Presented by R. Danny Beets, Sandia National Laboratory Challenge: Replacing the control system of a research reactor with a modern, user-friendly, easy-to-maintain system in a reasonable amount of time and cost. Solution : "Using an Ethernet network of nine PCs running Windows 2000 and LabVIEW with FieldPoint hardware, engineers configured two PCs with motion hardware and one with PCI-6602 timing cards to write efficient LabVIEW code to distribute to all nine PCs." - R. Danny Beets Learn more about this Sandia National Laboratory solution. • Developing a Distributed Emissions Test Bench Using NI Software and Hardware Challenge: Developing an application to gather emissions data on various vehicle platforms, from experimental hybrid vehicles to production gasoline vehicles, using disparate hardware in a four-wheel drive dynamometer facility. Solution : Creating a distributed application using National Instruments LabVIEW, the NI SCXI and PXI hardware platform, and third-party instrument hardware. Learn more about this solution.
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