Labview display

[tlegarski]

I am an instructor at Penn State.  LabVIEW is used in one of the labs using an 8 bit microcontroller for serial data transmission.  

When LabView displays 0010 in binary, four zeros are not displayed.

Is the full binary number 0000 0010 or is it 0010 0000.  

Thanks,

Ted Legarski 

[Gregory]

If it doesn't show you all the bits, that means there are 0's to the left. You can change the display format so that it always displays the same number of bits:

[tlegarski]

I teach an Electrical Engineering lab at Penn State. We use LabView.

Lab 10 is attached. 

For Exercise 1 in Lab 10, two bytes are sent to LabView that determine motor speed.  How will these bytes be displayed?

Will there be one 16 bit display or two 8 bit displays with the low byte first.  

Regards,

Ted Legarski 

[Gregory]

It looks like there is a VI named "Serial 2-Byte Reader.vi" which someone has made for your lab. You should be looking in there to see how the read function works.