LabWindows vs. LabView

[Michael Kang]

Hi, everyone,

Our company need to build test equipment for testing some RF
equipment. We have to make a quick decision as whether to use
LabView or LabWindows.

I know LabView is a Visual Programming Tool and LabWindows is
C based. I assume performance wise LabWindows is better,
but LabView seems much simpler and we have a tight schedule.

Any recommendations and suggestions?

Thanks.

Michael Kang
Unique Broadband Systems
ymkang@uniquesys.com

[Dave Smith]

I personally like Labwindows CVI. Lab View is very powerful in it's own
right. CVI takes some getting used to, but once you have it, there are no
limits to what you can do.

Michael Kang wrote in message
news:38c6db46@newsgroups.ni.com...
>
> Hi, everyone,
>
> Our company need to build test equipment for testing some RF
> equipment. We have to make a quick decision as whether to use
> LabView or LabWindows.
>
> I know LabView is a Visual Programming Tool and LabWindows is
> C based. I assume performance wise LabWindows is better,
> but LabView seems much simpler and we have a tight schedule.
>
> Any recommendations and suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael Kang
> Unique Broadband Systems
> ymkang@uniquesys.com

[Makoto]

If you have a programming skill using C already, CVI is good.
Otherwise LabVIEW is also good. But CVI will allow you to use
some tricky plays if difficult aspect is encountered in your programming.
This is because C. But LabVIEW allows less trick play.

Ma

Michael Kang wrote in message <38c6db46@newsgroups.ni.com>...
>
>Hi, everyone,
>
>Our company need to build test equipment for testing some RF
>equipment. We have to make a quick decision as whether to use
>LabView or LabWindows.
>
>I know LabView is a Visual Programming Tool and LabWindows is
>C based. I assume performance wise LabWindows is better,
>but LabView seems much simpler and we have a tight schedule.
>
>Any recommendations and suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Michael Kang
>Unique Broadband Systems
>ymkang@uniques
ys.com

[chuck@stewarthome.freeserve.co.uk]

I have used both and if you are looking for programming speed You can't beet
LabVIEW. CVI is smaller and faster in terms of execution speed ( but not
much) and as the other guys said if you can program in C you won't have as
much of a learning curve. But any thing you can do in C you can also do in
LabVIEW faster. If you do go to LabVIEW try to keep you sub routines simple
and fast. Don't have to many layers ( it slows things down )



Good luck
Chuck Stewart


"Michael Kang" wrote in message
news:38c6db46@newsgroups.ni.com...
>
> Hi, everyone,
>
> Our company need to build test equipment for testing some RF
> equipment. We have to make a quick decision as whether to use
> LabView or LabWindows.
>
> I know LabView is a Visual P
rogramming Tool and LabWindows is
> C based. I assume performance wise LabWindows is better,
> but LabView seems much simpler and we have a tight schedule.
>
> Any recommendations and suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael Kang
> Unique Broadband Systems
> ymkang@uniquesys.com