Reentrancy and Stateful VI's
Blake - November 21, 2018
Whether you’re new to LabVIEW or have been around the block the topic of VI reentrancy is an important one especially when dealing with stateful VI’s. In this post we’re going to briefly define the different reentrancy settings and then talk about the dangers of stateful VI’s who have the wrong reentrancy settings or are used in the wrong context. We define a stateful VI as one that stores data within itself from one call...
Increasing Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing Capabilities
Bryan - November 16, 2018
Endigit engineers been doing Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test systems for over a decade. We recently made a strategic decision to increase our investment in HIL test. One step toward this was hiring National Instruments (NI) HIL Systems Engineer Andrew Heim. Andrew has been working to help NI’s largest HIL customers to be successful in their deployment of complex test systems. Adding Andrew’s experience boosts Endigit’s HIL capabilities. An HIL test system simulates physical systems to test...
Hanging on an Event Structure
Shawn - October 31, 2018
A LabVIEW user interface I was working with hung recently. I suspected the front panel was locked because I had done something stupid, but I was surprised to find out what it was. I had put an Event Structure in a case structure that wasn’t executing and this had caused the hang. You may ask, “Shawn, what were you thinking putting an event structure in a case structure anyway?”. It seems like a bad idea...
Quick Drop: Quick Qode for Quacks
Jake - October 18, 2018
Once upon a time there was a quack named <your name>. Everyday <your name> arrived to work to solve complicated technical problems with their mighty intellect and LabVIEW development skills. These skills, wielded like a sharp sword helped <your name> slay even the toughest of challenging problems. One day, <your name> faced a looming dreadline that threatened impending doom if <your name> could not dispatch of it quickly enough. Because of its quick moving ally...
SCPI Makes Life Easy
Brian - October 10, 2018
How many times have you looked for an instrument driver, and find that it doesn’t exist? It happens, and that overwhelming feeling of doom looms overhead. Don’t let that feeling overcome you until you have verified that there is not a SCPI interface. SCPI stands for “Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments.” As the name says there could possibly be a set of standard commands that will help you still be able to control your instrument...
World's Fastest LabVIEW Programmer 2018
Haden - June 8, 2018
What is better than having the two-time World's Fastest LabVIEW Programmer? Having the three-time fastest programmer and top six fastest programmers this year! This year Endigit set a goal to take the top five spots in the competition. We went the extra mile and took the top six spots in the competition. Robert Mortensen beat out fellow Endigit employee Bryan Heslop in 2017 so he had a bye this year through the first two rounds...
Taking Control of Instruments With LabVIEW
Brian - March 16, 2018
If you have ever thought "Man, I am so sick of pushing these buttons on this instrument I could punch someone!", or your instrument is strategically placed on the opposite side of the lab from your computer, then you are in luck. The everyday mundane tasks of using instrumentation for your projects is inevitable. Sometimes it requires pushing buttons every hour or so, and sometimes it requires pushing those buttons 30+ times a minute. In...Welcome Brian and Jon to Endigit!
Bryan - January 23, 2018
Endigit is happy to announce the hiring of two new employees, Brian Denkers and Jon Terry. Brian Denkers is a Certified LabVIEW Architect and Certified TestStand Architect. He is joining as a Systems Engineer most recently employed at L-3 Technologies in Salt Lake City. Jon Terry joins as a Systems Engineer Intern. He is finishing up a masters degree in mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University. Also, Jake Hansen has transitioned from intern to former...
Learning a new Language: LabVIEW
Jake - November 27, 2017
Every once in a while we have the opportunity to learn a programming language. With each new language comes the challenges of learning new “vocabulary” as well as the various things that make each language unique. As with any new language, habits from our “native” language carry over. For example as someone who learned to program in Java and C++, leaving types off variables is still hard in Python! LabVIEW, unlike most programming languages is...