Serial data collection and display

[amacd]

I write machine code for microchip cpu's and have a project that transmits
about 80 characters of hex data at 115k baud. I would like to use labview
(or ?) to collect the data and display it on a pc. Does anyone know if about
80 bytes sent at that speed and repeating as often as 10ms will choke
LabView? Also, if anyone with a good understanding of LabView serial com is
in or near Las Vegas I would be interested in their services.

Andrew MacDonald
amacd@earthlink.net

[mikeporter]

The data rates you're talking about should be doable with LV as long as there isn't something else running on the machine that is consuming an inordinate amount of processor time.

The only thing to be careful of is putting too much processing in the acquisition loop. What exactly are you trying to do?

Mike...

[Chris_Rake]

80 bytes every 10ms at 115.2 is well within LabVIEW's (and VISA's) capability. If the data is always 80 bytes you can issue a VISA read of 80 bytes and then process the data. This may need to be in a separate loop or use events depending on your application's needs.