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Welcome to the April 2005 edition of the NVSI Monthly Newsletter! We
have created this newsletter in the hope to provide our clients, partners and the
general measurement and automation industry public with updated
information on the products and services from Neo Vista System
Integrators Pty Ltd. Below is a list of what's in this issue:
NI Days 2005 - We came, we saw, we presented!
Incorporating UML into your LabVIEW projects
IMAQ for USB Devices Toolkit Released
TEDS - Are you Ready?
Website / Newsletter Revamp - Coming Soon! |
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NI Days 2005 - We Came, we Saw, we
Presented! |
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NVSI again attended the highly successful
NI-Days 2005 in Sydney, Auckland and Christchurch where users like
you got to see some of the cool things we've been up to over
the last year, as well as press our Certified LabVIEW Architect and
Developers with your difficult (and sometimes obscure!) LabVIEW
challenges. Once again, we were invited to follow the morning
keynote speech with a real-world user solution, and this year we
presented our award-winning National
Standards Commission 50 Tonne Load Cell Compliance Tester user
solution, based
on two real-time FieldPoint units, controlling load profiles, cyclic
environmental conditions, reporting all results to a central SQL
database.
The quality of NI-Days participants was up from last year, with
industry leaders coming together to chew the fat and share their
experiences. Below is a picture of our table, including two of
our Technical Specialists looking very dapper in their Certified
LabVIEW Developer shirts!
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Incorporating UML into your LabVIEW
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Endevo, an NVSI partner, has released their long-anticipated UML
Modeller, an easy-to-use modelling tool that is specifically
integrated to LabVIEW.
Written entirely in LabVIEW, the UML
Modeller is a tool to aid in system architecture design and
documentation. This makes your modelling much more rewarding
and productive than solely relying on white board or multi- purpose
drawing programs. The UML Modeller supports Use Cases and
Sequence / Class Diagrams, as defined in UML (www.uml.org).
Although these features are enough to
excite just about any software architect, there's more! The Endevo
UML Modeller supports LabVIEW code generation from a visual
description, the class diagram, of your design! The tool
integrates towards Endevo's GOOP Wizard 3 for code generation and
reverse engineering purposes, and generates comprehensive
descriptions of existing systems.
For more
information on Endevo's UML Modeller, click
here.
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IMAQ for USB Devices Toolkit
Released |
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As recognised Vision and Automated Object Inspection experts, one of
the most common questions we are asked is "Can I acquire images
using a USB camera?" Our reluctant answer has been
"well, sort of" - there are a number of third party
toolkits available that allow users to plug in their USB cameras and
get data from them, with varying success. Until now...
National Instruments has released a
new free toolkit: "NI-IMAQ
for USB Cameras", available from their website.
With NI-IMAQ for USB Cameras, you can:
- Acquire
images from any USB imaging device with DirectShow support
- Choose
between one-shot or continuous image acquisition
- Configure
cameras programmatically
- Acquire
directly into Vision Assistant for easy application prototyping
Admittedly, we usually shy away from USB cameras, as they often have
poor quality sensor arrays and their lenses are almost always of a
quality lower than automated object inspection requires. With
the availability of cheap FireWire cameras increasing dramatically
over the last few years, we believe that there's no substitute for
quality, so if your application requires more than a standard
webcam, we suggest you contact Adept
Electronic Solutions (an NVSI partner) who provide several
suitable FireWire cameras for prices as low as $1,000 including a
PCI FireWire card. Adept Electronic Solutions also provide
several lighting and lens lines - we suggest them to you because
they are who we use!
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TEDS - Are You Ready? |
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TEDS (Transducer Electronic
Data Sheet) sensors were launched a few years ago with much ado about
how they were going to revolutionise the worldwide process
technology market. TEDS are a natural evolution of the common sensor, and this month's What's
New in Process Technology magazine has an article that not
only describes what they are and how they work, but also tips on how
to implement them in your system.
How do we know? Because it was
written by Christopher G. Relf, our very own Development
Manager/Senior Technical Specialist wrote it! A
keen software and hardware automation engineer,
Christopher
is a National Instruments Certified LabVIEW Architect and the author
of “Image
Acquisition and Processing with LabVIEW” (CRC Press).
Christopher’s
industrial experience includes NVSI, the
Division
of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics of the CSIRO, J
D
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Uniphase and as a freelance technical journalist for Australian
Consolidated Press.
If
you haven't got a copy of the latest What's
New in Process Technology, you can sign up to receive it
monthly here.
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Website / Newsletter Revamp - Coming
Soon! |
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We're busily putting the final touches
on our new website and newsletter, ready for their launches next
month. At your request, future newsletter features include an
increased technical content, more training and education
opportunities and the introduction of a technical challenge for our
readers. We're also going to focus a little more on our
capabilities and those of our partners, so you can see what we do
best, and where we can help your business.
That said, our designs and content
aren't set in stone just yet, so if there's anything in particular
you'd like to see, please feel free to drop the editor an email here.
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