In my discussions with the folks at NI, a CE version of LabView is definitely
in the offing. As to when we might see it, no one was willing to say. They
realize the market possibilities, but one of the major issues they are dealing
with are drivers for the peripherals. The drivers have to be written from
scratch as there are no legacy code out there. Thus it is quite a
undertaking.
I would love to be able to write code for a CE device with Labview. Now I'm
using Visual Basic and I can make it do what I want, but I am much more
conversant in LV.
I caught a brief presentation at ISA here in New Orleans in August at the
Microsoft booth on their "real time" OS's. Now as everyone knows, none of the
Windows desktop OS's can be described as real time. The presentation
insinuated that there was some sort of super CE type OS that was in the works
the could be programmed (more or less) with standard Windows programming tools
(LabView?) but be much more deterministic like CE. It sounded to me like a
cross between embedded NT and Windows CE. They wouldn't give a lot of
information, unfortunately just hype. For all I know it could just be
vaporware.
Cheers,
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:01:28 +0200, "Gys van Zyl"
wrote:
>
>I would like to develop a simple data aquisition system using one of the
>many available handheld computers (PDA's).
>
>Has anyone attempted this before?
>
>More specifically:
>
>Will I be able to run a Labview program on a handheld? I don't think
>Labview is available on Windows CE, but maybe the upcoming Labview Player?
>Will the Labview Player (free download, runs in a web browser) have data
>aquisition capabilities?
>
>Are drivers available for PCMCIA DAQ cards in Windows CE?
>
>Will Labview RT be more capable in Windows CE? I read something somewhere
>on the NI website about plans in this direction. The front panel is
>important to my application, I have to see what I'm measuring. Will LV RT
>handle this?
>
>Any comments/suggestions?
