LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit Readme

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Primary Software: LabVIEW Toolkits>>Advanced Signal Processing Toolset
Primary Software Version: 8.6
Primary Software Fixed Version: N/A
Secondary Software: N/A

Problem: I have not installed the LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit. Can I still access the readme file?

Solution: The LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit readme file is attached below and also installs with the toolkit. The readme document provides an overview of the toolkit and describes any last-minute installation instructions.

This file contains information to introduce you to the LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit. This file also provides you with help resources you can use while working with this toolkit. The file contains the following information that you need to understand.

Overview

New Features and Changes

System Requirements

Installation Instructions

Uninstallation Instructions

Redistributing Executable Applications

Overview

The LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit is the upgrade version of the LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 7.5.1. The Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit provides VIs for time frequency analysis, time series analysis, and wavelet analysis.

Use the Time Frequency Analysis VIs to transform a time domain signal to a linear or quadratic time-frequency domain representation. You can extract useful information from the time-frequency domain representation of a signal, or you can process a time-frequency domain representation and reconstruct a time domain signal.

Use the Time Series Analysis VIs to perform preprocessing, statistical analysis, correlation analysis, spectrum estimation, and model estimation on a univariate or multivariate (vector) time series. You can extract useful information from the time series with different analysis methods for different applications.

Use the Wavelet Analysis VIs to perform transforms and inverse transforms between a signal and the wavelet coefficients of the signal. You can use the Feature Extraction VIs to perform denoising, detrending, probability density function estimation, peak detection, edge detection, and ridge detection on a 1D or 2D signal.

New Features and Changes

Use the TSA Capon Spectrum VI to estimate the power spectral density (PSD) of a signal by using the Capon method.
Use the TSA Capon Frequency Estimator VI to estimate the frequency components of a signal by using the Capon method. You can use this VI to determine the leading frequency in a signal by analyzing the resulting power components.
Use the TSA Time-Cepstrum VI to compute the time-cepstrum of a signal by using a sliding window. You can use this VI to observe the time-varying periodic components of a time series.
Use the Multiresolution Analysis 2D Express VI to decompose and reconstruct 2D signals by using the frequency bands you specify.
Use the WA Multiscale Peak Detection VI to detect peaks in a single input signal. This VI also can detect peaks continuously in a block of signals or signals from streaming data sources.
In the TFA Time Varying Filter VI, you can select multiple areas on the spectrogram when applying the arbitrary mask method. You also can save and load mask information and the corresponding window information.
In the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 7.5.1 and earlier, the Time Frequency Analysis VIs, Time Series Analysis VIs, and Wavelet Analysis VIs are on the Addons palette. In the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 8.6, the Time Frequency Analysis VIs, Time Series Analysis VIs, and Wavelet Analysis VIs are on the Signal Processing palette.

System Requirements

The computer you are using must meet the following minimum system requirements to run the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit:

Windows Vista/XP/2000
50 MB free disk space
LabVIEW 8.6 Full or Professional Development System

Installation Instructions

Prior to installing the toolkit, verify that the computer meets the following conditions:

Verify that you installed a compatible version of LabVIEW.
Verify that the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 7.5.1 or earlier is not installed on the computer.
Verify that no earlier versions of the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit, including alpha and beta releases, are installed on the computer.

You can install all of your LabVIEW products—including LabVIEW and the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit—using the LabVIEW 8.6 Platform DVDs. Refer to the LabVIEW DVD Installation Instructions or the LabVIEW Release Notes, which are available in your LabVIEW box, for more information about the LabVIEW Platform DVDs.

Complete the following steps to install the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 8.6 for Windows from the LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit installation CD.

Note Some virus detection programs interfere with the installer. Disable any automatic virus detection programs before you install. After installation, check your computer for viruses and enable any virus detection programs you disabled.

Log on as an administrator or as a user with administrator privileges.
Insert the LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit installation CD and follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
Activate your LabVIEW products using the NI License Manager.

Version 7.5.1 for LabVIEW 7.x or 8.x

You must install the LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 7.5.1 to work with LabVIEW versions 7.1 through 8.5.

Caution Do not install the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 7.5.1 under LabVIEW 8.6.

Complete the following steps to install the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 7.5.1.

Log on as an administrator or as a user with administrator privileges.
Insert the LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit installation CD and browse to the LabVIEW_7.1-8.5 directory.
Double-click setup.exe and follow the instructions that appear on the screen.

Uninstallation Instructions

Complete the following steps to uninstall the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit.

Open the Add or Remove Programs dialog box from the Control Panel.
Select National Instruments Software and click the Change button.
Under NI Products, select NI LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit and click the Remove button.

Redistributing Executable Applications

To distribute executable applications built with the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit, install the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit Run-Time Engine on the target machine. The Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit Run-Time Engine is located in the runtime folder on the installation CD. Run the ASPT_RT.msi program in that folder to install the Run-Time Engine.

Accessing the Help

Refer to the LabVIEW Help, accessible by selecting Help»Search the LabVIEW Help from the pull-down menu in LabVIEW, for information about the Time Frequency Analysis VIs, the Time Series Analysis VIs, and the Wavelet Analysis VIs.

Refer to the following user manuals for information about using the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit. These user manuals are located in the labview\manuals directory.

Time Frequency Analysis Tools User Manual (TFA_User_Manual.pdf)
Time Series Analysis Tools User Manual (TSA_User_Manual.pdf)
Wavelet Analysis Tools User Manual (WA_User_Manual.pdf)

Finding Examples

You can access the examples for the Time Frequency Analysis Tools, the Time Series Analysis Tools, and the Wavelet Analysis Tools by selecting Help»Find Examples to display the NI Example Finder and then navigating to the Toolkits and Modules»Time Frequency Analysis, Toolkits and Modules»Time Series Analysis, and Toolkits and Modules»Wavelet Analysis folders, respectively. You also can click the Find Examples link in the Examples section of the Getting Started window to display the NI Example Finder. You can modify an example VI to fit an application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into a VI that you create.

You also can find the examples for the Time Frequency Analysis Tools, the Time Series Analysis Tools, and the Wavelet Analysis Tools in the labview\examples\time frequency analysis, labview\examples\time series analysis, and labview\examples\wavelet analysis folders, respectively.

Known Issue

The following item is a known issue in the LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit.

During the uninstallation process, you cannot retrieve the uninstalled components by clicking the Cancel button. To repair the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit, you can run the setup.exe program from the installation CD.

Bug Fixes

The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in the LabVIEW 8.6 Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of the Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit.

Bug ID	Fixed Issue
35459	TSA Lifter PSD.vi has wrong behavior when the input is not in dB units
56931	Some functions return error -604 in Windows Vista if the Vista account user does not have write permission
39551	Incorrect time scale in Arbitrary Path Analysis and 1D Analysis Filter Bank

Copyright

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Trademarks

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Other product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

Patents

For patents covering the National Instruments products, refer to the appropriate location: Help»Patents in your software, the patents.txt file on your media, or ni.com/patents.

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Report Date: 06/03/2008
Last Updated: 08/01/2008
Document ID: 4M2H8DLC

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