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Fig. 1: Arduino UNO Board send

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Why interfacing of Arduino is server
necessary with LabVIEW?
Ardunio is open source hardware board and it is very
easy to perform complicated tasks with it. It not only has
many built in features but also supports external
devices. But it requires writing different lines of code
which could be cumbersome. Here comes in the
LabVIEW to rescue you. LabView uses graphical
language and do not require writing lines of code.
Instead we use graphical diagram to perform particular
task. You can have a look at tutorial 1 for more details.

Interfacing of LabVIEW and Arduino combines both the

simplicity of Aduino hardware board and the graphical
language of LabVIEW. Now we do not need to write lines
of code and also we do not need the other complex
hardware boards.

Necessary softwares required for

interfacing of LabVIEW and Arduino?
Here is the list of software you are required to install for
interfacing of Arduino and LabVIEW. All software are
free and easily available.

Arduino IDE

LabVIEW

Visual Package Manger (You might already have it if

you installed LabVIEW. If not download.)

LabVIEW Interface for Arduino(Present in Visual

Package Manger. Download and install it)
NI-VISA Package

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After installation test your installation using sample

program at the “ nish” dialogue box.

How to make a program Arduino

with LabVIEW
In our program we will control an LED on real time
hardware using a Push Button in LabVIEW.

Start the LabVIEW.

Creat Blank VI as in Tutorial 1.
Go to “Block Diagram” Panel
Right Click on white space. Go to “Arduino” and
select “init”.

Bring Cursor to anywhere in “Block Diagram” panel

and place the “Init”.

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First input is “VISA resource”. It is the serial port you

are using for interfacing of Adruino. You can nd it
in “device manager” of your computer under “ports
(COM & LPT)….” Make sure Arduino board is
connected with computer otherwise it won’t be
shown. In my case it is COM4.
Bring cursor on rst input of “Init” until it shows
“VISA resource”. Right click on it. Go to “create” and
select “constant”. As it will be a constant value of
Port which will be always used for serial
communication.

Click on arrow it will show available option. In my

case its “COM4”. Select appropriate one after
checking from device manger as mentioned above
otherwise it won’t work.

Second input is “Baud Rate”. Create it as constant

as done for “VISA resource”. Right click on “Baud
Rate” then “create” and then “constant”.
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Third input is “Board Type”, fourth is “Bytes per

packet” and fth is “Connection type” make them
also constant.

Click on white space on “Block Diagram” and follow

“Arduino → Low Level → and select Set Digital Pin”

Place “Set Digital Pin” on “Block Diagram” and join

“Arduino resource” of both blocks. Create “digital I/O
pin” as constant. And write 13 in it. It will be pin we
will control. Make second input “Pin Mode” as
constant and select output from drop down. It
means pin will work as output pin. Join “error in”
with “error out” of other block. If any error occurs in
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previous block, it will travel to next block. We will

elaborate its purpose at end of article.

This completes what we do in setup loop of Arduino

program.
Click on white space on “Block Diagram” and follow
“Arduino → Low Level → and select Digital Write”.
Place “Digital Writ ” on “Block Diagram”.

Now next as we do in program; we place DigitalWrite

function in void loop, we will do same here.
Click on white space on “Block Diagram” and follow
“Structure → select While loop”.

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
Draw a rectangle on “Block Diagram” and click on
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red color round icon “loop condition”Create a
 constant by right clicking on it. I will show a “STOP”
icon on diagram.


Bring “Arduino Resources, Error Out and Pin 13” on

rectangle.

Connect “Resources with Resource”, “Error with

Error” and “Digital IO with Pin13”.

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For creating “value” input go to Front Panel. Right

click “silver → Boolean → Push Button” and Place it
in Front Panel. It will also be shown in “Block
Diagram” automatically.

Bring the Boolean in while loop and nd “Boolean to

(0,1)” as follows.

Place “Boolean to (0, 1)” in “Block Diagram” and

connect as shown.

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Find “Close Block” as Follows.

Connect Close Block as Follows.

Now Start Ardunio IDE.

Click “File” then “Open” and Follow as shown. Go
through all these folders from “Computer” onward
and open LIFA_BASE Arduino le.

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Upload the program opened using Arrow button on

top of Arduino IDE.
Once uploading done close the Arduino IDE. It’s very
important to close it because both LabVIEW and
Arduino are using COM4. If not closed LabVIEW will
not be able to communicate and it will crash.
Now go to Front Panel in LabVIEW and run the
program.
Once both the Tx and Rx lights are ON; on Arduino
board press Boolean button on Front Panel. You will
observe LED on board connected with pin 13 is ON
when we press push button on LabVIEW once.
Pressing Again send 0 so LED will be OFF.

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3 COMMENTS

Mustafa April 14, 2017

Hi
thank you
As I know this method VISA is old and not
supported any more since I have tride many
times with teo arduinos Uno but it fail till I
found Linx rmware which easy to
communicate with arduino but not all sensors
are found in the list

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Best regards
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Bilal Malik Author April 14, 2017

but Linx still need VIS not possible

without VISA
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mehdi July 27, 2017

hi
i try to make project
leveling see tank or water control pump with
labview arduino
please sample project need
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