Month: June 2015

When waveforms are mean to you

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This blog post should be filed under the Public Service Announcement category. Recently, a customer contacted me with an issue he was observing when averaging a voltage measurement. He insisted that mean.vi  was calculating the mean incorrectly! The code we were using was: The symptom was that the result of the mean operation seemed to always be the … [Read more…]

A Method to Project Madness

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When I started solving problems using LabVIEW, my programs were usually very small. Back then, we didn’t even have the project explorer, so organization on disk was very important. It was very common to have a folder called Controls, another folder called subVIs, and the Main.vi on the root folder for the project. I still … [Read more…]