How to read data from DAQ unit with LabVIEW

[1Sam]

Hello all, I am new with LabVIEW and I need help. How do I construct LabVIEW program to read and store temperature data from DAQ unit. the data can be store as Excel or text file? Thank you. 

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

Start by going through the examples in LabVIEW.  Go to Help->Find Examples.  There are several examples in there just for analog input and then some more for logging data to a file.  After that, show us what you have and we can direct you a little better that way.

[1Sam]

Thank you. 

[THennesy]

Do you have any examples you recommend for that? I do not see any in the examples that are simply analog read from a daq. I owuld guess it would be in the "hardware input and output" folder, but it is not clear where to go form there, GPIB? Instrument Drivers? Scan Engine? Serial? Sound? System Config? VISA? in these sub folders there still do not appear to be any simple analog read. The closest i found in name was "simple GPIB.vi" but that doesn't appear to be any kind of analog read.

Thanks for any help.

[altenbach]

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@THennesy wrote:

Do you have any examples you recommend for that?

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You probably did not notice that you added to a very stale 7 year old thread, and you don't even say what you mean by "that". What kind of hardware do you have? Why do you bring up GPIB? Do you have a GPIB instrument?

I recommend to start a new thread, explain exactly what kind of hardware you have and what you want to do. (DAQ unit" is way too vague!).