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5th Southern Ontario Meeting Files

Here are the presentation files from the LAVA meeting held at the University of Waterloo. I'd like to thank Ben Zimmer for the presentation and Ed Spike for the use of the lecture hall.

Introduction and Test Executive Design

LabVIEW Simulink Interface Toolkit

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5th Ontario LAVA Meeting

This is just a reminder that the next Ontario LAVA (LabVIEW advanced virtual architects) meeting will be held on: Wednesday June 2nd at the University of Waterloo.

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Discussion Topics:
Integrating Matlab/Simulink with LabVIEW
Benjamin Zimmer will give a talk on the Simulation Interface Toolkit and integrating Matlab/Simulink with LabVIEW.
Roll your own test executive
I will present one approach to building a LabVIEW based test executive that satisfies simple test executive requirements.
LabVIEW 7.1
I will give a brief overview of the new features in LabVIEW 7.1.
Tips and Tricks
Latest collection of tips and tricks that we've come across from tha LAVA website, other resources and from personal experience.
Other Topics:
The floor is always open to other topics people want to discuss
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Location and directions:
Location: University of Waterloo
Room: CPH 1346
Map: http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/map.html
Parking: Lot C. I think it is $4
Starts at 6:00pm. - Food will be available.

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4th Ontario LAVA Meeting

The next Ontario LAVA (LabVIEW advanced virtual architects) meeting will be held on Tuesday April 27th, 2004. The topics of discussion will be:

1. Structured Analysis -- A Brief Introduction.
Structured Analysis is an analysis and partioning methodology. We'll look at the tools of SA and how you may benefit from using it. We'll take a simple but real problem, use a computerized SA tool to analysis it, then see a LabVIEW solution implemented from the structured specification. - Presented by Doug Mumford of Mumford & Associates

2. OpenGOOP is OpenG's version of a Graphical Object Oriented Programming (GOOP) framework. It's 100% pure G, allows dynamic instantiation of multiple component instances, and provides the potential to add features that make large application development easier. We will see a brief demonstration of how to use the OpenGOOP toolkit to create new classes. We will also see an example of a real program using GOOP to protect data access. - Presented by Michael Aivaliotis of mmWave Integrated Solutions.

3. LabVIEW Scripting - Some discussion on the LAVA forums led to the discovery of some hidden scripting features. We will take a look at these and discuss what the potential benefit is for us is as LabVIEW developers. We will also see some simple apps written based on these scripting capabilities.

Location: Humber College.
Starts at 6:00pm - Food, schmooze (food support welcome)
Discussions: 6:30pm
Room: **D234**
Map to Humber College: Find maps here.

Please attend this meeting and show support for your local LabVIEW user group. This group is not sponsored by NI and is a collaborative effort of several dedicated LabVIEW enthusiasts. The LAVA Ontario user group is listed on the National Instruments website.

Thank You

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Latest LAVA meeting a success!

The latest Southern Ontario LAVA meeting was held on Feb. 10th. Overall it was a success. Here is a group photo:

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The presentation material is here:

Download file

I would like to thank ALL attendees for their participation. If there is a specific topic of interest you would like to see presented, please join the LAVA ON mailing list and post a suggestion:

LAVA-ON mailing list

You can also email me at: michael at mmwis.com (replace at with @).
In closing I would also like to thank Dean Mills and Ben Zimmer for their excellent presentation of an imaging test executive.

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3rd Southern Ontario LAVA Meeting

**NOTICE**
**The meeting has been cancelled for today due to weather conditions.**
**It has been rescheduled for Tuesday February 10**

The next Southern Ontario LAVA group meeting will be held on February 10th 2004. The main topic of discussion will be "Design Techniques for building modular and Flexible LabVIEW Applications".

This will be the first in a series of meetings where we will discuss various design patterns used in todays "real-world" systems built with LabVIEW. Come and see how your colleuges are using design patterns to minimize development time and program-in the flexibility to accomodate challenging system requirements. We will also discuss LCOD (LabVIEW Component Oriented Design).

As in previous meetings, there will be other topics that have yet to be announced. This is an open discussion meeting, the floor is always open to new topics and ideas.

Please come at 6:00pm for food and mingling. The meeting will start at 6:30pm and will end at...

UPDATE: The meeting will be held at Humber College in Room F205.

It will be held at the North Campus:

http://cecalendar.humber.ca/geninfo/cmap.htm

Please enter through entrance NX and follow the posted signs to the room if it hasn't been announced here in time.

http://cecalendar.humber.ca/geninfo/northmap.htm

You can park in any parking lot since parking is free during the evenings.

I am looking forward to this next meeting and I know it will be as interesting and exciting as the last few.

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2nd Lava meeting files

Opening Presentation

IVision Toolkit
By Irene He

Unleashing the Power of Control References
By Michael Aivaliotis

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Second Ontario LAVA User Group meeting

The NEXT Ontario LAVA User Group meeting is on March 4th, Tuesday 6:00pm at:

Humber College
North Campus (Room E324)
205 Humber College Blvd.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michael Aivaliotis of mmWave Integrated Solutions Inc. will be discussing how control references can create modularized reusable code and speed up your development time.

Irene He will be doing a presentation on her Ivision toolkit that works with LabVIEW.

If time permits there will be a quick display of how you can embed a VI front panel within another panel.

Of course the floor is open for other topics. Please bring your LabVIEW development problems and ideas with you to discuss among the group. Also... There will be pizza!

Directions to Humber College:

http://www.humber.ca/cecalendar/geninfo/northmap.htm

For more information contact: Michael Aivaliotis
Please subscribe to the mailing list to be notified of changes to this event.
Questions about this meeting can be posted on the Forums.

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Event Structure

Powerpoint Presentation
This was presented at the first LAVA meeting.

Meeting Minutes

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First Ontario LAVA User Group meeting

The very first Ontario LAVA User Group meeting is on November 12, Tuesday 6:00pm at:

Humber College
North Campus (Room E307)
205 Humber College Blvd.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michael Aivaliotis of mmWave Integrated Solutions Inc. will be facilitating the first topic - exploring event structures. We will also touch upon the OpenG project and leave the floor open for other topics. Please bring your LabVIEW development problems and ideas with you to discuss among the group. Also... There will be pizza!

Directions to the college:

http://www.humber.ca/cecalendar/geninfo/northmap.htm

For more information contact: Michael Aivaliotis
Please subscribe to the mailing list to be notified of changes to this event.
Questions about this meeting can be posted on the Forums.

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