• 3-day course
• Audience: Experienced LabVIEW programmers who are developing large applications
• Use advanced programming concepts such as XControls and custom Express VIs (toolkit included)
• Use tools and techniques to optimize development efforts for team-based LabVIEW projects
• Design and develop advanced architectures for large LabVIEW projects
• Prerequisites: LabVIEW Intermediate I & II or equivalent experience 

The LabVIEW Advanced Large Application Development course teaches common practices for managing large, team-oriented, application development projects from specification to deployment. Byincorporating these application development practices in your projects, you can improve development processes and optimize applications and resources to effectively reduce development time and costs.

Learn the skills needed to effectively manage and implement large LabVIEW applications in multideveloper environments.This course extends key concepts introduced in theLabVIEW Intermediate courses for designing, developing, testing, and deploying LabVIEW applications. You learn advanced LabVIEW features, such as developing custom Express VIs, and how to select and develop templates, architectures and design patterns recommended for large LabVIEW applications. A copy of the Express VI Development Toolkit is included in each course kit.

• 3-day course
• Audience: Users of LabVIEW, DAQ, and signal conditioning in data acquisition/control applications
• Use Measurement and Automation Explorer to configure data acquisition and signal conditioning hardware
• Properly connect transducers such as thermocouples and strain gauges to your measurement hardware
• Use LabVIEW DAQ VIs to perform single point and continuous measurements
• Prerequisites: LabVIEW Basics I and II courses or equivalent experience

Using LabVIEW, plug-in DAQ boards, and SCXI signal conditioning hardware, the Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning course teaches you the fundamentals of PC-based data acquisition and signal conditioning. During the course you get hands-on experience with installing and configuring data acquisition hardware and learn to use data acquisition software functions to build your application. Although LabVIEW is the application software used during the class, users using only the NI-DAQ API will also benefit by learning about analog input, analog triggering, signal conditioning, signal processing, analog output, digital I/O, and counters. By the end of the course, you will know how to develop integrated, high-performance data acquisition systems that produce accurate measurements.

• 2 Days
• Audience: new DIAdem users who have taken DIAdem Basics course
• Create fully automated reporting system
• Programmatically access binary file data
• Programmatically access data from Database using SQL
• Prerequisite: DIAdem Basics or equivalent previous experience
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  DIAdem Basics [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 3 days
  • Audience:New users of DIAdem, anyone interested in exploring capabilities of DIAdem
  • Find the data you want usig simple search terms and conditions
  • Import data from ASCII and TDM files
  • Graphically View data & perform calculations
  • Create reports to present data
  • Prerequisites: Experience using windows; programming / VB-scripting experience helpful but not essential

  The DIAdem Basics course teaches you how to use the most important analysis, reporting, and data management features of the DIAdem environment. At the end of this course you will be comfortable importing data sets, analyzing them visually and computationally, and creating publisher-quality reports. You will also learn how to use DIAdem SCRIPT to automate each of these tasks.
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  LabVIEW Connectivity (Intermediate II) [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 2-day course
  • Audience: Users needing to maximize performance or extend functionality of LabVIEW application
  • Use different network communication technologies (TCP/IP, UDP)
  • Use LabVIEW with ActiveX and .NET
  • Use LabVIEW VIServer and Database Connectivity Toolkit
  • Use DLLs with LabVIEW
  • Prerequisites: LabVIEW Core 3 (Intermediate I) or equivalent experience

  The LabVIEW Connectivity course builds on the skills taught in LabVIEW Core 3. This course teaches you to identify the components of integrated systems and implement networking technologies for your applications. You learn how to extend your application functionality and reduce development time by leveraging the capabilities of other applications using connectivity technologies such as DLLs, ActiveX, databases, and the Internet.

  
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  LabVIEW Core 1 [Back to Top]
  
  
  • Course duration: 3 days
  • Audience: New users and users preparing to develop applications using LabVIEW or NI Developer Suite
  • Learn how to develop applications in the LabVIEW graphical programming environment
  • Create applications using a state machine design pattern
  • Prerequisites: Experience with Microsoft Windows and writing algorithms (flowcharts, block diagrams)
  The NI LabVIEW Core 1 course is the first step in any LabVIEW learning path. LabVIEW Core 1 introduces you to the LabVIEW environment, its features, dataflow programming, and common LabVIEW architectures in a hands-on format. Learn to develop test and measurement, data acquisition, instrument control, data-logging, and measurement analysis applications.

  At the end of LabVIEW Core 1, you will be able to create applications using basic design templates and architectures to acquire, process, display, and store real-world data.

  
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  LabVIEW Core 2 [Back to Top]
  
  
  • Course duration: 2 days
  • Audience: New LabVIEW or NI Developer Suite users and users preparing to develop applications
  • Design, implement, and distribute stand-alone applications using LabVIEW
  • Apply single- and multiple-loop design patterns for application functionality
  • Recommended preparation for Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer certification
  • Prerequisites: Experience with Microsoft Windows; LabVIEW Core 1 course/equivalent

  The NI LabVIEW Core 2 course teaches you to design complete, stand-alone applications with the LabVIEW graphical development environment. This course, an extension of the LabVIEW Core 1 course, introduces you to common design techniques for successfully implementing and distributing LabVIEW applications for research, engineering, and testing environments.

  Topics covered include techniques for optimizing application performance, such as how to optimize reuse of existing code, use of file I/O functions, data management principles, event programming, and error-handling practices. This course directly links LabVIEW functionality to your application needs and provides a jump-start for application development.

   
  
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  LabVIEW Core 3 (Intermediate I) [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 3-day course
  • Audience: LabVIEW users who need to increase performance, scalability, or reduce maintenance
  • Understand state machines and use them in your application
  • Implement good programming style to create efficient VIs
  • Develop modular applications that are easier to debug, maintain, and reuse
  • Prerequisites: LabVIEW Core 1 and 2, or equivalent experience

  While the LabVIEW Core 1 and 2 courses introduce you to the NI LabVIEW environment and application development, the hands-on LabVIEW Core 3 course teaches you structured practices to design, develop, test, and deploy LabVIEW applications. You learn recommended application development techniques such as hierarchical VI development, event-based architectures, appropriate user interface design, error handling strategies, and effective documentation.

  
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  LabVIEW FPGA [Back to Top]
  
  
  • Course duration: 2 days
  • Audience: New users with applications incorporating LabVIEW FPGA and NI reconfigurable I/O hardware
  • Compile your LabVIEW FPGA VI and deploy to NI reconfigurable I/O hardware
  • Control timing, synchronization, and priority of operations on the FPGA target
  • Create deterministic control and simulation solutions on the LabVIEW platform
  • Prerequisites: LabVIEW Basics I / Core 1 course or equivalent experience
  The NI LabVIEW FPGA Module course prepares you to design, debug, and implement efficient, optimized applications using the LabVIEW FPGA Module and reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware. Learn how to compile and deploy your VIs to different types of NI targets, such as NI R Series multifunction RIO, NI CompactRIO, NI FlexRIO, and NI RIO instruments. Develop applications to learn how to acquire digital and analog I/O, control loop timing, and pass data between your host VI and your FPGA target.
  
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  LabVIEW Instrument Control [Back to Top]
  
  

  • 2-day course
  • Audience: Application developers using LabVIEW, and GPIB, serial or computer-based instruments
  • Identify the instruments in your system and make instrumentation decisions
  • Design and implement measurement applications using LabVIEW controlling stand-alone instruments
  • Use LabVIEW Plug & Play and IVI instrument drivers in LabVIEW
  • Prerequisites: Experience with Microsoft Windows, LabVIEW Basics I/equivalent experience

  The LabVIEW Instrument Control course teaches you how to develop LabVIEW applications to configure and control GPIB, serial and PXI instruments. Learn the use of virtual instrument software architecture (VISA) functions – a single interface to configure and control GPIB, serial, and VXI instruments and the use of interchangeable virtual instruments (IVI) drivers. After you complete the course, you can quickly develop integrated, high-performance instrument control applications that produce accurate measurements.

  
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  LabVIEW Instrument Drivers [Back to Top]
  
  

  This one-day course teaches you how to develop LabVIEW instrument drivers using native LabVIEW graphical programming techniques. Concepts covered include:
  • Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA)
  • Instrument driver architecture
  • Development steps
  • Documentation
  • Error handling
  • Programming standards.

  These concepts are reinforced with hands-on exercises.

  
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  LabVIEW Machine Vision and Image Processing [Back to Top]
  
  

  • 2-day course
  • Audience: New users and developers of National Instruments Vision products
  • Understand the fundamentals of building a complete machine vision system
  • Understand the basics of NI vision software and hardware
  • Develop vision applications with greater ease and efficiency
  • Prerequisite: LabVIEW Basics I course or equivalent experience

  NI Vision products give you the flexibility to address the needs of your research, test and measurement, and industrial automation vision applications. The course teaches the fundamentals of machine vision, the components that make up a machine vision system, and the various resources for locating appropriate cameras, lenses, and lighting equipment. Students use vision software and hardware to calibrate coordinates and to acquire and quantify images.

  
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  LabVIEW Performance [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 2-day course
  • Audience: LabVIEW users creating small to mid-sized applications who want to increase efficiency of their code
  • Learn how to identify and improve performance issues
  • Create applications with better use of memory, threading, and I/O
  • Design applications for optimal performance based on application requirements
  • Prerequisites: LabVIEW Core1 and Core2 or comparable programming experience
  The LabVIEW Performance class focuses on the technical skills and information required to write 'better' programs in the LabVIEW environment. Focusing on how to identify and improve performance issues within a block of code, the couse will provide hands-on exercises of how to avoid common performance pitfalls.  Learn to use appropriate performance measuring tools and modify code to improve memory usage or increase execution speed.
   
  
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  LabVIEW Real-Time 1 [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 2-day course (formerly Application Development)
  • Audience: New LabVIEW Real-Time users, users developing deterministic closed-loop control systems or users seeking to maximize reliability of measurement systems.

  • Understand the concepts of real-time and determinism
  • Learn how to choose the best target hardware for given real-time application
  • Understand how to reduce jitter in a real-time application
  • Learn how to benchmark and deploy a real-time solution

  The LabVIEW Real-Time course delivers hands-on training for developing robust, reliable, and deterministic measurement and control systems. At the end of the course, you will be able to implement a LabVIEW Real-Time system. This course is the fastest way to learn robust system architectures, real-time programming techniques, and time-saving development tips.

  
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  LabVIEW Real-Time 2 [Back to Top]
  
  
  • Prerequisites LabVIEW Real-Time 1 and LabVIEW Core 2, or equivalent experience
  • LabVIEW Real-Time Module users preparing to develop applications using real-time targets
  • Users who need advanced communication methods, benchmarking, and optimization for their real-time applications
  • Users who need to develop real-time applications with maximum reliability
  • Users and technical managers evaluating LabVIEW Real-Time or NI Developer Suite in purchasing decisions

  The LabVIEW Real-Time 2 course delivers two days of hands-on training for developing deterministic, real-time applications with advanced communication methods and reliable design. At the end of the course, you will be able to choose recommended communication methods based on application requirements, ensure that the application runs with maximum reliability, validate that the completed application meets performance requirements, and optimize the application if necessary.

  
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  LabWindows/CVI Basics I [Back to Top]
  
  

  • 3-day course
  • Audience: New users and users preparing to develop applications using LabWindows/CVI
  • Develop your applications within the LabWindows/CVI environment
  • Create professional-looking user interfaces with strip charts, graphs, and buttons
  • Understand the fundamentals of event-driven programming
  • Prerequisites: Experience with C programming or ANSI C Primer Course

  The LabWindows/CVI Basics I course prepares you to create your own applications using LabWindows/CVI. After completing this course, you will have mastered the LabWindows/CVI programming environment, and will be able to create basic solutions using many of the built-in features of LabWindows/CVI. By the end of the course, you will know how to develop applications using the LabWindows/CVI programming environment. The hands-on format of the course enables you to apply skills learned in the course to your application.

  
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  LabWindows/CVI Basics II [Back to Top]
  
  • 2-day course
  • Audience: New LabWindows/CVI or NI Developer Suite users and users preparing to develop applications
  • Create elaborate user interfaces with toolbars and menus
  • Use ActiveX within the LabWindows/CVI environment
  • Compile your modules as DLLs so they can be used with other applications
  • Prerequisite: LabWindows/CVI Basics I: Introduction course or equivalent
   
  As a follow-on to the LabWindows/CVI Basics I course, the LabWindows/CVI Basics II course is ideal for new and intermediate users. After attending the course, you can design powerful multithreaded applications that use Internet communication, DLLs, and ActiveX. You will learn how to create powerful user interfaces using active menus, canvas controls, and toolbars. You will be able to take full advantage of the PC with your application by learning how to program a multithreaded application.
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  Managing Software Engineering in LabVIEW [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 2-day course
  • Audience: Intermediate/Advanced level LabVIEW programmers interested in managing development of medium to large projects
  • Learn to manage the development of a LabVIEW project from definition through to deployment
  • Select and use appropriate tools and techniques to manage the development of a LabVIEW application
  • Prerequisites: LabVIEW Basics & Intermediate I or equivalent experience 
  • Reccomended preparation for Certified LabVIEW Achitect exam
   
  The Managing Software Engineering in LabVIEW course helps you cultivate the skills needed to effectively manage and deliver large LabVIEW applications in single- or multi-developer environments.
   
  This course teaches common practices for managing large, team-oriented application development projects from specification to deployment. By incorporating these application development practices in your projects, you can improve development processes and optimize applications and resources to effectively reduce development time and costs.
  
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  NI Certification Exam [Back to Top]
  
  

  NI Certification demonstrates you have the skills needed to create high-quality applications with NI software platforms. It gives customers, peers, and employers confidence in your abilities, which can potentially lead to new business, promotion, career opportunities, and increased salary.

  Stand out from the crowd. Certified developers are recognized in the LabVIEW community through an elevated "status" on ni.com/community. They also receive recognition at developer events and spotlights in NI News and Instrumentation Newsletter. Additionally, they are often rewarded with branded merchandise and have the ability to use the NI certification logo on business cards, Web sites, and resumes.
  
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  NIGHT LabVIEW Core 1 [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 8 night-class sessions from 5pm -9pm  on Tuesdays and Thursdays w/ some self-paced study between sessions
  • Audience: New users and users preparing to develop applications using LabVIEW or NI Developer Suite who cannot attend regular day-time regional classes but still wish to participate in a hands-on classroom experience.
  • Recommended preparation for Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer certification
  • Learn how to develop applications in the LabVIEW graphical programming environment
  • Prerequisites: Experience with Microsoft Windows and writing simple algorithms (flowcharts, block diagrams)
  • Due to the shortened nature of the lecture students will be encouraged to work on prepared drills between lectures to review key concepts.

   

  LabVIEW Core 1 introduces you to the National Instruments LabVIEW environment, its features, dataflow programming, and common LabVIEW architectures in a hands-on format. Learn to develop test and measurement, data acquisition, instrument control, data-logging, and measurement analysis applications.
  

  At the end of LabVIEW Core 1, you will be able to create applications using basic design templates and architectures to acquire, process, display, and store real-world data.

   

  
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  NIGHT LabVIEW Core 2 [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 3 night-class sessions over 1.5 weeks from 5pm-9pm on Tuesdays & Thursdays
  • Audience: New LabVIEW or Developer Suite users and users preparing to develop applications who cannot attend regular day-time regional classes but still wish to participate in a hands-on classroom experience
  • Apply single and multiple-loop design patterns for application functionality
  • Design, implement, and distribute stand-alone applications using LabVIEW
  • Prerequisites: Experience with Microsoft Windows; LabVIEW Core 1 course/equivalent
  • Recommended preparation for Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer certification
  • Due to the abbreviated lecture, students are encouraged to work on provided drills inbetween sessions in order to review key concepts.

  The LabVIEW Core 2 course prepares you to design complete, stand-alone applications in LabVIEW. This course is a logical extension of the LabVIEW Basics I course, aimed at making the student successful in creating applications for research, engineering, and testing environments.

  Topics covered include techniques for optimizing application performance, including how to optimize reuse of existing code, use of advanced file I/O functions, data management principles, and error-handling practices. This course directly links LabVIEW functionality to your application needs and provides a jump-start for application development.

  
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  RF Application Development [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 2-day course
  • Audience: Engineers who are involved with the development of RF solutions
  • Identify and use the appropriate RF hardware for test and measurement
  • Learn how to develop robust RF applications using NI LabVIEW software and toolkits.
  • Prerequisites: LabVIEW Basics I & II
  • Reccomended that students attend RF Measurement Fundamental class.

  The RF Application Development course focuses on how to develop RF applications with National Instruments PXI RF hardware and LabVIEW development software. Learn about hardware and software architecture, hardware and software configuration, and onboard signal processing capabilities.
  
  Students will also build a complete test application during the course to aid in course concept understanding.
  

  
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  RF Measurement Fundamentals [Back to Top]
  
  
  • 3 day class
  • Audience: Appropriate for engineers new to RF or requiring a refresher course
  • Explore traditional measurements including gain, power compression, and harmonics
  • Prerequisites: LabVIEW Basics I and II courses or equivalent experience
  The RF Fundamentals course covers a range of topics from overall RF device architecture to mathematics basics such as fast Fourier transforms to modulation, RF measurements, and RF test considerations. This course is appropriate for beginning students or more advanced engineers who need a refresher course in RF. It prepares you for the RF Application Development course.
  
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  TestStand I: Introduction [Back to Top]
  
  

  • 3-day course
  • Audience: New TestStand users; engineers, developers maintaining already-built test sequences
  • Build test code and interface it to TestStand
  • Use TestStand debugging tools
  • Configure TestStand using the configuration dialog boxes and customize user privileges
  • Prerequisite: Familiarity with LabVIEW or LabWindows/CVI

  The TestStand I: Introduction course teaches you to use the features provided in the TestStand environment. The course introduces you to the basics of customizing items (such as the operator interface, users, reports, and process model) so you can build applications to match your test needs. Upon completion of this course, you can develop practical test applications using the built-in tools supplied with TestStand.

  
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  TestStand II: Customization [Back to Top]
  
  

  • 2-day course
  • Audience: TestStand I: Introduction course attendees; new TestStand users
  • Configure TestStand applications to be used by different operators
  • Develop customized TestStand applications
  • Harness the power of testing multiple UUTs
  • Prerequisite: TestStand I: Introduction course or equivalent experience

  Building on the TestStand I: Introduction course, the TestStand II: Customization course demonstrates how to customize the functionality built in to TestStand. Advanced features of the TestStand environment are taught such as multithreading and multi-UUT (unit under test) testing, advanced reporting techniques, and using the TestStand application program interface (API). This course also contains information on how to integrate advanced user management into your test management system, and concludes with system design projects that present possible system designs and implementations.

  
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  The LabVIEW Style Course [Back to Top]
  
  
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  Training & Certification Membership Program [1 year] [Back to Top]
  
  
• Reduced training costs with one low price
• Unlimited access to all scheduled courses for one year
• Personalized training programs
• Option to retake all courses
• Skill validation with professional credentials with unlimited exam seats
• Attend training anywhere in the country
• For individual use

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Training & Certification Membership Program [6 months] [Back to Top]


• Reduced training costs with one low price
• Take as many as 4 instructor-led courses and 2 online courses in six months 
• Attend training anywhere in the country 
• Option to retake all courses
• Skill validation with up to 2 certification exams
• For individual use
   

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