Labview or Matlab?

[WD23]

Does anyone know a nice site for comparing these two software(Labview/Matlab)?
I'm working on the area of Signal Monitoring and Analysis. I prefer to use Labview for my programming but I have to show them the advantage of Labview rather than Matlab.
Thank you in advance.

[Christopher Mitchell]

Don't know of a website that will compare the two software packages.

This is one of those questions with NO concrete answer -- if you ask 50 different people this question you will get 50 different answers. Most people in this forum will probably chose LabVIEW due to its graphical nature and rapid VI development. Matlab has quite a few more analytical toolboxes than LabVIEW. I guess the answer depends on what you are trying to program.

I have used both quite extensively and prefer LabVIEW.

[mikeporter]

There's also the issue of user interface--which isn't always as straightforward as you might think. I love LV, but there are a lot of folks that can type faster than I can string wires. They have fundamentally learned to think through their keyboards. For them LV won't be easier or faster or more intuitive.

Mike...

[Vishi Anand]

I will say the 2 are different. In LV you can do different things and signal
processing/DSP etc. are 1 part of it. Matlab, Signal Processing are the
core, other things like instrument control, GUI are sides. Depends what you
want to do. In my company DSP/RF guys use Matlab exclusively as it is much
easier for them to do the math in matlab than in LV. Programmers will prefer
a more extensive development environments like LV, CVI or VC++. You can
always interface to Matlab if you can't so something in LV or C.


vishi

"woodst23" wrote in message
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> Does anyone know a nice site for comparing these two
> software(Labview/Matlab)?
> I'm working on the area of Signal Monitoring and Analysis.
I prefer to
> use Labview for my programming but I have to show them the advantage
> of Labview rather than Matlab.
> Thank you in advance.

[Shan]

My 2 cents worth:

Labview has huge advantages over Matlab when acquiring data and / or controlling instruemnts. I use Labview for any data acquisition / control applications and certainly when anything but the most basic UI is needed. I've never had the patience to learn how to create GUI's in Matlab.

My Matlab programs have very little (or no) user interface. I use Matlab for number crunching and sophistocated chart / graph displays. We've created some very elaborate graphics of multiple types (histograms, overlaid with intensity charts, and map graphic). The graphs are easily exported to standard formats.

In my opinion, the learning curve for Matlab is a bit steeper, but is the clear choice when the need is number crunching.

Tim