Matlab and LabVIEW8

[jacky Wang]

    Once a time, I was a crazy fan for Matlab, and worked with it for 5 years in the areas of image processing, arithmetic and simulink/simulation. Then it disappointted me greatly by  incapability of creating EXE file conveniently and run-time engine support after several years' expection (at that time, I thought it would support this two functions in its higher version). That's the main reason why I had to give up Matlab and convert to NI based LabVIEW and CVI.
  Recently I'm suprised to see that LabVIEW8 have a better support on Matlab language by its mathscript function. However, that's still far from pratical application, and I prefer to see the following function could be supported in near future:
  1, the functions libary it supports is not adequate/big
  2, can not support labview application builder
  3, don't support MEX file

   I'm very interested that how NI developed mathscript function in LabVIEW, since long time ago, I also developed similar function under Visual C++, which could run .m and .mex file without matlab installed. I expect to see some discussion areas here and argue more on this topic.

Thanks!
Jacky

[altenbach]

LabVIEW 8.20 now supports Mathscript in built application (see this recent discussion).

(Maybe you should post your other comments over in the Mathscript form.)

[GrantM]

Hello Jacky,

As altenbach noted, LabVIEW 8.20 adds support for MathScript in the application builder.  It also added on the order of 150 functions, mainly for DSP and plot functionality.  We plan to add more functions with each new release.  Additional MathScript functions are available with the Control Design Toolkit.  The Version 8.2 release of the Digital Filter Design Toolkit  (shipping in less than a month) also includes new MathScript functionality.  If there are particular functions you need that are missing, we would appreciate a large wish list from you.  We would also be interested in learning more about your particular application.

You specifically mentioned simulation functions.  With the Simulation Module, LabVIEW provides dynamic simulation natively, similar to The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink® software.  What type of interaction would be useful for you between the Simulation Module and MathScript in LabVIEW?

You also mentioned support of MEX files.  This is something we are looking into and plan to support in a future release of LabVIEW.

Simulink® is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.

Grant M.
Staff Software Engineer | LabVIEW Math & Signal Processing | National Instruments