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Accessing Previous Data VI

Module by: National Instruments

Summary: To observe the use of shift registers and feedback nodes to hold data from previous iterations of a For Loop.

Exercise 1

1.a) Front Panel

  1. Open the Feedback VI located in the C:\Exercises\LabVIEW Basics I directory. The front panel shown in Figure 1 is already built.
    Figure 1
    Figure 1 ( feedbackfp.png)

1.b) Block Diagram

  1. Display the block diagram and make sure both the front panel and block diagram are visible. If necessary, close or move the Tools and Functions palettes.
    Figure 2
    Figure 2 (feedbackbd.png)
    The 1 wired to the left terminals on the For Loop initializes the Feedback Node to 1. The Wait Until Next ms Timer slows the operation of the code. You also could use Highlight Execution instead of the wait function to slow the operation. The same code is used twice in this block diagram with the Feedback Node in a different portion of the wire.

1.c) Run the VI

  1. Run the VI. The top section of the code reads the initialized Feedback Node and passes this value to the Multiply function. The bottom section of the code reads the initialized Feedback Node and passes this value to the indicator. This Multiply function does not execute until the next iteration of the loop.
  2. exehilit.png Click the Highlight Execution button, shown in Media 3, to enable execution highlighting. Run the VI again to observe the order of execution. Turn off execution highlighting when you understand the execution order. The VI continues executing at normal speed.
  3. Replace the bottom Feedback Node with a shift register, as shown in Figure 3.
    Figure 3
    Figure 3 (feedbackbdedit.png)
    1. Select the bottom Feedback Node and press the <Delete key to delete it.
    2. Right-click the border of the For Loop and select Add Shift Register.
    3. Initialize the shift register by wiring 1 to the left shift register.
    4. Change the label of the bottom indicator to Shift Register and the top indicator to Feedback Node.
  4. Run the VI. Notice that both the Feedback Node and the shift register portions of the block diagram have the same functionality.
  5. If time permits, complete the following optional steps; otherwise, close the VI and do not save changes.

1.d) Optional

  1. Revise the shift register to display the last three iterations of the For Loop data, as shown in Figure 4.
    Figure 4
    Figure 4 (moreiterations.png)
    1. Resize the left shift register to three elements. Right-click the shift register and select Add Element from the shortcut menu to add each shift register.
    2. Initialize each elements of the shift register to 1.
    3. Right-click each element of the shift register and select Create>>Indicator. Label each indicator.
  2. Run the VI.
  3. Close the VI. Do not save changes.

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