LabView

LabView (short for Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a platform for developing systems. The software is a development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments that allows interfacing with sensors and actuators. LabView is an industry standard. National instruments also owns many other software titles such as Multisim and Vision Builder.

LabView simplifies complex programming and computational tasks into an easy to use GUI with drag-and-drop widgets. Complex tasks such as outputting information to graphs or excel documents can be completed in a relatively short period of time.

External Interfacing

LabView's primary function is the ability to interface with external inputs and outputs such as those made by National Instruments or other third-party tools. Through the Linx library it is also possible to interface with Arduino. There are also several instructional videos on how to use Linx with a Sparkfun Inventor Kit, which contains a board similar to an Arduino Uno, that are very helpful in understanding how LabView is setup to run with an Arduino.