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LabVIEW for Automotive, Telecommunications, Semiconductor, Biomedical and Other Applications (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation)

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This book is nothing but a sales promotion piece that wants you to contact National Instrument Alliance members to do this sort of work for you. They were giving this book away free of charge at a Labview seminar. There is very little useful information here. It may give you some ideas, but there are no examples or instructions on how to do any of the projects mentioned. Sorry, don't waste your money.

If you are looking for LabVIEW code examples or techniques, then don't bother with this book.

This is simply a collection of case studies, similar to the application notes available on the National Instruments web site. There are cases using DAQ and IMAQ (vision), which are divided into chapters for automotive, biomedical, semiconductor, telecommunications and "general" testing (interestingly, the title wasn't even in the correct order). All cases have equipment lists and contact information for developer of the case. Possibly, these developers might be willing to share more information about their projects than is described in this book. Some cases have photographs of LabVIEW front panels (instrument interfaces), but I did not find any code examples or algorithms.

Overall, I would not bother with this book. Similar information can be found freely on the National Instruments web site. I have several other books in the NI Virtual Instrumentation series and all were much better.

To add to the comments above- on the back of this book it states that it includes code. This is blatantly not true- there is no code. There is no CD. There is no pointer to a URL where the code can be obtained...

The back also claims the book contains "detailled" explanations of how the problems in each case study were tackled. Bull. Calling phrases like "An algorythm was designed" detailed is working in a rather odd version of English. A beta perhaps.

Don't buy this book, it's pointless. The paper's too smooth to even employ as emergency bog roll.

I found an example application in the book that was close to what I was working on. Although the write up was a little short, it showed I was on the right track. I wish they also included example program code so I could use some of the features the application example demonstrated. Quite useful.