Leon Grossman

07/06/2010

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While it is usually preferable to avoid mixing development environments for a project, sometimes we need to create a mixed platform solution.  In a recent project, I needed to create a class library in C# to interact with a LabVIEW 2009 SP1 appl...

Jessica Mlinaric

06/29/2010

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 Cesar Pena: Senior Project Engineer You have had the opportunity to live and work in several different countries; what have those experiences been like? It broadens your view of the world and opens your way of thinking.  You d...

Matt Puskala

06/25/2010

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In an ideal world, a design project has well defined phases with appropriate time alloted for each milestone.  In the real world, clients often bring a project that is already behind schedule, needing results yesterday. Board design can be a cum...

Ken Brey

06/24/2010

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DMC Newsletter Geek Challenge  - May 2010: Devise and perform an experiment to determine the volumetric density of liquid water in the near-ground atmosphere during a hard rain.  Simply put, if you could freeze time and collect all of ...

Jody Koplo

06/16/2010

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In the first part of my series, LabVIEW Data Storage: Overview of TDMS, I introduced TDMS as our preferred file format and pointed users toward exploring and using TDMS themselves. In this post, I'm assuming that you are comfortable handling chan...

Jody Koplo

06/15/2010

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This is part one of my blog series detailing the use and optimization of the TDMS format. Here is a table of contents for all blogs in this series: LabVIEW Data Storage: Overview of TDMS LabVIEW Data Storage: TDMS Performance Tweaking LabVIE...

Darren Jones

06/14/2010

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At DMC, we're happy to be working hard at the cutting edge of emerging Energy Storage devices. Many of the systems we've recently architected and delivered are world-class manufacturing test systems for Batteries and Smart Battery Packs. A...

Tim Jager

06/14/2010

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What was the best part of my trip to Charlotte, NC last week? - Watching the Blackhawks Stanley Cup game 6 on a massive screen in the NASCAR hall of fame after the Siemens award ceremony. Very surreal... and totally awesome! Yes, Siemens really kn...

Jody Koplo

06/11/2010

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 DMC has once again sponsored the Northwestern Design Competition. Design Competition is a contest that occurs every year at Northwestern and pits fully autonomous robots against each other to accomplish a specific task. This year that task was ...

Jessica Mlinaric

05/26/2010

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Jody Koplo, Project Engineer    You are one of DMC’s four Certified LabVIEW Architects.  Describe the process for attaining that status. It is the top level of certification that National Instruments offers for LabVIEW develo...