What's New in LabVIEW 2017
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This presentation provides a thorough overview of the new features and capabilities of the 2017 version of LabVIEW. New features include tools for productive, simplified development, new Embedded Design Technologies, a cloud toolkit for Amazon Web Services, new API's, Interface Utilities, support for FMI standard and several others. LabVIEW NXG is also discussed.
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What's New in LabVIEW 2017
- 1. What’s New In LabVIEW 2017? Everything?
- 2. Integrate Hardware. Visualize Data. Accelerate Engineering. LabVIEW NXG 1.0 LabVIEW 2017
- 4. Tools for Productive, Simplified Development Expanded channel wire support for FPGA to transfer data between loops running in parallel. Supports a subset of channel types: Streams Tags Includes Channel Probe Window to debug data transfer at run-time. Native Abstraction Methods Channel Wire Support for FPGAs Malleable VIs that can perform actions on any data type without including additional logic. Reduce amount of code needed to develop VIs that allow multiple data types as inputs. User-defined by changing VI file extension to .vim. Malleable VIs
- 5. LabVIEW Cloud Toolkit for AWS The toolkit provides LabVIEW developers with intuitive APIs to connect to cloud services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS S3 AWS SNS AWS SQS Simple Storage Service Simple Notification Service Simple Queue Service Core Services API for AWS: • Authentication • Encryption SNS API SQS API IoT API LabVIEW Cloud Toolkit for AWS LabVIEW Application Store data in the cloud Queue messages Send notifications S3 API AWS IoT Internet of Things
- 6. Web Technologies to Stay Connected LabVIEW Tools Network Additions To Give Your Apps to Access the Web Bergmans Mechatronics LLC Create HTML and JavaScript-based browser user interfaces on NI real-time targets. CompactRIO Single-Board RIO PXI controllers Does not require the LabVIEW Run-Time engine or browser plug-ins on the client platform. LabSocket-Embedded JKI Extends the native LabVIEW HTTP client to simplify connecting to RESTful web services. Includes support for HTTP status codes Multiple parallel requests Request-specific HTTP headers Automatic escaping of URLs REST Client Library
- 7. RTI DDS Toolkit on Windows and NI Linux RT LabVIEW VIs RTI DDS Toolkit on Windows and NI Linux RT LabVIEW VIs RTI DDS Toolkit for LabVIEW Publish/subscribe communication model for distributed systems Native LabVIEW API supports Windows and NI Linux Real-Time systems DDS compliant: interoperates with C, C++, Java, and C#/.NET applications Set quality of service requirements: latency, throughput and reliability Scales to thousands of nodes and millions of data points DDS Security enables per-topic read/write access control Real-time publish/subscribe data exchange Communicate over shared memory, LAN, Internet Secure authentication, encryption, access control Peer-to-peer (no network service required) RTI DDS Toolkit on Windows and NI Linux RT LabVIEW VIs DDS Libraries C, C++, .NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Lua and Ada Apps
- 8. LabVIEW 2017 OPC UA Toolkit Develop secure, reliable communications with OPC UA Supported on both Windows and NI Linux Real Time targets Supported Facets: Data Access (DA) – Data communication and information models Historical Access (HA) – Management of archived data and annotations Alarms and Conditions (AC) – Management of state driven notifications Semantic Interoperability with 3rd-Party Industrial Automation Devices
- 9. LabVIEW FPGA IEC 61131-3 Interface Utility Connect, interface with FPGAs, and deploy* to NI Linux Real-Time devices through the CODESYS® IDE. Reuse IEC 61131-3 code: Ladder Logic (LD) Structured Text (ST) Function Block Diagrams (FBD) CODESYS® IDE Support on NI Linux Real-Time Devices *The IEC 61131-3 Deployment License for NI Linux Real-Time is required for standalone operation CODESYS® is a trademark of 3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH
- 10. FPGA Interface Python API • Automate deployment and interaction with LabVIEW FPGA bitfiles using Python • Simplify code changes by directly accessing FPGA controls, indicators, and FIFOs by name • Read/Write IRQ’s to the FPGA bitfile dynamically with an interactive Python interpreter • Create Python scripts on Windows or Linux development systems Processor
- 11. • Wire Connections Maintained While Moving Objects in/out of Structures • Reduced aggregate VI load/compile time • Read-only access for DVRs • New Channel Templates • Backwards Compatibility of LabVIEW Run-Time Engine • LabVIEW-built DLLs from a C-language application now run in a multithreaded execution system Other Features
- 12. SystemLink - Product Overview Server Windows PC or Server Web Application Browser-Based: PC, Mac, Tablet Managed Systems Windows and NI Linux® Real-Time Manage distributed systems with software that provides mass coordination of device management, software deployment, and data transfer. PRODUCT FEATURES SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT • Mass deploy software to multiple remote hardware nodes. • Create and manage deployment packages for LabVIEW apps and non-NI software. DEVICE MANAGEMENT • View and configure device settings; perform diagnostics such as restart and self-test. • Classify systems according to operational context. DATA TRANSFER SERVICES • Automate data transfer using LabVIEW and Web APIs. • Use data viewers to administer data transferred from targets. System & Data Security User Authentication Data Processing "The registered trademark Linux® is used pursuant to a sublicense from LMI, the exclusive licensee of Linus Torvalds, owner of the mark on a world-wide basis"
- 13. USRP RIO 2945 & 2955 CompactDAQ 9185 and 9189 PXI(e) 4309 and 4310Functional Safety C Series I/O Modules NI ATE Core Configurations Industrial Controller 3173
- 14. ni.com LabVIEW NXG 1.0 Faster measurements. Instant insight. Programming optional.
- 17. View LabVIEW Version Comparison: http://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview/compare-labview-nxg-and-labview.html
- 18. 2.0 Beta Experience the next generation of developing, deploying, and maintaining test systems ni.com/techpreview Software Engineering Create reusable libraries Object-oriented programming DOWNLOAD TODAYUser Interface Design Build web-enabled dashboards New UI libraries Interoperability TestStand integration Call external DLLs Application Distribution Build executables and installers Create and manage reuse libraries with NI Package Manager Instrument Support Additional PXI instruments (HSDIO, RF and mixed-signal) Additional 3rd party instrument drivers System Management Graphical discovery, configuration, and documentation of hardware
- 19. LabVIEW Certification Demonstrate you have the skills needed to create high-quality applications with LabVIEW and give customers, peers, and employers confidence in your abilities. LabVIEW 2017 and LabVIEW NXG Updated exams are being released for the new environment, starting with the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) Select the LabVIEW environment of your choice when you register No difference in exam requirements, competencies tested, or logos based on exam environment Existing Certified Professionals will NOT need to retake exams Take advantage of updated certification logos now
Editor's Notes
- A tenet of LabVIEW is provide native methods to abstract the low-level programming syntax to make you more productive. LabVIEW 2016 introduced the first new wire in over a decade- the channel wire. The channel wire simplifies performing asynchronous communication between loops running in parallel by reducing communication to a single wire. Originally, supported only on desktop and real-time systems, with LabVIEW 2017 support is extended to FPGAs. Use outside of SCTL to reduce block diagram complexity of LabVIEW FPGA applications by implementing stream and tag communication protocols. Often, LabVIEW developers create copies of VIs to handle different data types as inputs. Reduce the amount of code needed to have a VI accept multiple data types by using a malleable VI in LabVIEW 2017. A malleable VI will adjust to the the data type that is supplied as an input and will configure the outputs accordingly. Additionally, several malleable VIs were included in LabVIEW 2017 to perform common actions on a multitude of data types, including sorting arrays and pausing execution of code.
- NI has continued to provided investments in our real-time and FPGA technology for you to leverage when building embedded and distributed systems. The NI Linux Real-Time kernel has been upgrade to provide additional security libraries and bug fixes. Additionally, the SaltStack package was added to the ni.com repository to provide libraries and IP to implement distributed system management. The LabVIEW Real-Time Watchdog API adds a new option to restart the LabVIEW Real-Time Run-Time engine (and its associated running application) on watchdog expiration on NI Linux Real-Time targets. This enables greater flexibility in control-sensitive applications to allow the FPGA to enter a safe state while restoring the RT target to a known, good state when a fault occurs without resetting the FPGA application or losing network connection.
- Presenter: If the account needs more information about host memory buffer, use detailed notes. below If not, just highlight. In 2017, additional IP for the FPGA is included in Vision Development Module to implement multi-pixel image processing to simultaneously process 8 pixels in parallel on Kintex-7 FPGAs for high throughput applications. Additionally, the compile cloud service compile times are continuingly improving with NI caching commonly compiled IP to reuse to decrease compile times. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Only Zynq-based Linux RT cRIO/sbRIO/SOM targets are officially supported, no R series In contrast, DMA FIFOs are fast, but have high latency and Front panel controls have lower latency than DMA but access is element-by-element and requires a large amount of CPU interaction Use cases: Data transfer mechanism for control applications with extremely low latency between RT and FPGA or FPGA accessible memory for targets without onboard DRAM FPGA directly accesses RT memory Requires FPGA VI to be compiled and accompanying RT VI to call bitfile, cannot run FPGA VI interactively Add in benchmark data when we have it, compare to DMA/register/ other means
- The LabVIEW Cloud Toolkit for AWS provides developers with interfaces from Windows or real-time LabVIEW applications to Amazon Web Services for data storage, message publishing, and queueing operations. Applications in need of additional storage for analytics or post-processing operations can benefit from cloud services to store and retrieve any amount of data programmatically from PC-based applications or hardware targets such as CompactRIO. Integration with AWS cloud services provides an effective method to store large amounts of measurements and data directly from LabVIEW while providing security, reliability, and availability. The toolkit supports the following services: -AWS S3 | Simple Storage Service -AWS SNS | Simple Notification Service -AWS SQS | Simple Queue Service
- Both are available on the LabVIEW Tools Network. JKI REST Client is a library for connecting LabVIEW applications with RESTful web services for creating Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This library extends LabVIEW’s native HTTP client with powerful features such as support for the status code, support for multiple parallel requests, support for request specific HTTP headers and support for automatically escaping URLs. These useful features streamline the process of integrating LabVIEW applications with REST based web service APIs. LabSocket-E features a Client Code Generator utility that operates on the developer's PC. This utility is used to automatically create the HTML and JavaScript-based browser client code and to deploy this code to a directory served by the HTTP server on the Real-Time platform. The developer then uses LabVIEW Project to deploy the Target VI and LabSocket-E Synchronizer code, invoked through a single VI on the Target VI block diagram, to the RT platform. When the client code is loaded into a web browser, a representation of the Target VI front panel is rendered in the browser. The Synchronizer then operates in parallel to the Target VI to continuously synchronize the values of the Target VI Front Panel controls and indicators with the representations of these elements in the browser, as shown below. LabSocket-E does not require the use of the LabVIEW Run-Time engine or any browser plug-ins on the client platform, therefore, any modern browser on any platform may be used to access the Target VI.
- DDS-Data Distribution Service https://info.rti.com/hubfs/docs/RTI_LabVIEW_brief.pdf Devices are fast; "real-time" is often measured in microseconds. Deterministic! Devices need to communicate with many other devices in complex ways, so TCP's simple reliable point-to-point streams are far too restrictive. Instead, DDS offers detailed quality of service control, multicast, configurable reliability, and pervasive redundancy. DDS implements direct device-to-device "bus" communication with a relational data model. Secure DDS capability coming in LabVIEW 2017 (https://www.rti.com/products/secure.html) Per-Topic Security Control r,w access for each function Ensures proper dataflow operation Complete Protection Discovery authentication Data-centric access control Cryptography Tagging & logging Non-repudiation Secure multicast 100% standards compliant
- We are reworking the OPC UA API with the SDK provided by Unified Automation. This API will be a standalone toolkit independent from LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW DSC. We took the decision of removing the OPC UA functionality from those two modules and keep the standalone toolkit only also included in the Embedded Control Monitoring Suite. Users active on service will automatically get the new OPC UA toolkit as part of their service for the first year. Also, we will have backwards compatibility with the current API.
- IEC 61131-3 is an open, widely adopted international standard that defines software architectures and programming languages for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The LabVIEW 2017 FPGA IEC 61131-3 Interface Utility allows industrial automation code defined by this standard to interface with the FPGA fabric on NI Linux Real-Time devices through the 3S CODESYS IDE. This utility allows users to access the IO from a compiled FPGA bitfile through several industry standard languages such as Ladder Logic, Structured Text, and Function Block Diagrams. Embedded applications requiring advanced control and specialized IO capabilities can now also incorporate a standard, familiar programming interface for design and maintenance teams working with multiple automation devices from different vendors facilitating code reuse and debugging tasks.
- NI created a package called 'nifpga' that exposes a Python API for LabVIEW FPGA devices, Find it at github.com/ni/nifpga -Simplify code changes: Provides the same functionality as the FPGA Interface C API, but there is no need to use LabVIEW to generate header files from the compiled lvbitx after every change to your FPGA code, only when new interfaces are created or modified -The FPGA Interface Python API only deploys on NI Linux Real-Time targets, VxWorks and PharLap are not supported It’s very common for LabVIEW to handle the main state machine, all the engineering tasks of the application such as signal acquisition and processing and control logic but you can also call Python for doing custom analysis or even a parallel application that might handle non-engineering tasks such as database or network communication. It depends on your code reuse needs. Or if you want your main control logic to be in Python, you can install an interpreter to your NI Linux Real-Time target and use this API to communicate with the FPGA application
- Simplify the development of control and monitoring systems by reusing FMI compliant system models with added LabVIEW support of the FMI standard from the Modelica Association. More information: https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Labs-Toolkits/LabVIEW-support-for-FMI-for-Model-Exchange/ta-p/3506018
- Presenter: Reference hidden slides for more information on each hardware release. With LabVIEW 2017, access the latest in hardware technologies from NI including: USRP RIO 2945 & 2955 that provides 4 Independently Tunable RX Channels 10 MHz to 6 GHz, 80 MHz BW A redesigned Ethernet CompactDAQ chassis with timing and synchronization capabilities. A ruggedized version of the IC-3173 industrial controller that supports IP67 standard. NI ATE Core Configurations that provide all the core mechanical, electrical, and safety infrastructure for a test rack. PXI(e) 4309/4310 for data acquisition applications that require high resolution or high voltage measurements. - Certified SIL 3 Functional Safety modules that include a configuration-based logic solve.
- After this session, you will… - understand how NIVS works and the value it can bring to your projects - how you can use LV to extend NIVS when needed for these projects - learn about some of the new features provided by NIVS2010
- Demonstrate you have the skills needed to create high-quality applications with LabVIEW and give customers, peers, and employers confidence in your abilities. LabVIEW 2017 and LabVIEW NXG Updated LabVIEW Certification Exams are being released for the new environment, starting with the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) There is no difference between the exam requirements, competencies and topics tested, or logos based on exam environment Existing Certified Professionals will NOT need to retake exams When you register for your exam, you will select the LabVIEW environment of your choice As adoption for LabVIEW NXG grows and in alignment with R&D support of CurrentGen, Customer Education will consider end-of-lifing the CurrentGen exams Certification logos will be updated to reflect new LabVIEW iconography, and will not differentiate between the editor the exam used oro visibility reflect the editor the exam was taken in. Already Certified? Claim your badge and share your skills on social and job sites with these new digital credentials.