GDevCon North America 2024
2024-07-23..2024-07-25
Golden, United States
who it's for
LabVIEW developers, test engineers, automation engineers, embedded systems engineers, quality assurance engineers, engineering managers, R&D engineers
topics
LabVIEW development workflows; test workflows with generative AI; NI targets on the edge; generative AI assistant for LabVIEW; DQMH generic networking; modularity and decoupling practices; automated code quality enforcement; runtime code optimization case studies; subarrays and substring handling; legacy test systems maintenance; LoRa long-distance status and control; class VI icons and UI conventions
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Conference Keynote: The Art of Delivering Value | David Neal | 53m |
Company adopts FSGD pronounced "fizz good" as a decision rule: release FSGD (Frequent Small Good Decoupled) work, stop giant coordinated launches, and measure… | ||
| Recap | 02m | |
Recap lists concrete announcements and outcomes from GDevCon NA July 23-25 2024: which sessions claim performance gains and by how much, which demos actually… | ||
| Test Workflows and Generative AI | Eric Reffett | 51m |
Claims that generative AI draws over $100 billion in investment and that models now have billions to trillions of parameters. LabVIEW gets a built assistant… | ||
| A Tree Full of Object Data | Stefan Lemmens | 48m |
Converts object private data into JSON and stores it as the canonical source, then uses JSON Text plus SQLite JSON functions (json_tree/json_each/json_extract)… | ||
| LabVIEW on my Mind | Laura Miller | 19m |
Demonstrates reading EEG and EMG into LabVIEW using OpenBCI headset, and a cheap MyoWare sensor wired to a Raspberry Pi Pico as MyoWare + Pico for $50. Uses… | ||
| Lessons Learned Installing NI Targets on the Edge | Cyril Gambini | 23m |
Claims a working field solution: targets (sbRIO, cRIO, PXI) get reachable via no-ip dynamic DNS using a Python background updater; encrypted access uses… | ||
| Nx24x7: Challenges and Considerations When Designing a Life... | Katya Prince | 41m |
Explains concrete solutions for building a running‑for‑weeks life cycle tester: uses LabVIEW parallelism on Windows, UPS and chiller hardware, a 32‑channel TC… | ||
| Boost Your Innate Human Creativity and Make AI Your Bit** | Nancy Henson | 51m |
Presents a specific model — input incubate id8 — tied to neuroscience (executive focus vs mind‑wandering) and the claim that predictable creativity comes from… | ||
| Modularity As It Applies to Everything | Brian Powell | 46m |
Argues that modularity’s value is concrete: it postpones hard decisions and lets components evolve, evidenced by things already built (icon editor, waveform… | ||
| Modern Development Workflows in LabVIEW | Greg Richardson | 49m |
Practical specifics: uses Git with mainline branching, small frequent commits, and separates compiled code; CI agents run platform‑specific LabVIEW builds with… | ||
| J-Crawler - Automating and Enforcing Code Quality | Hunter Smith | 24m |
JKI’s J-Crawler is a LabVIEW static-analysis and automation system that audits repositories, emits console/JUnit-style XML and CSV artifacts, and can apply… | ||
| Fail Fast Vs Fail Smart - Lessons Learnt | Ashish Uttarwar | 26m |
Claims that NI Vision Builder and the NI ecosystem let teams prototype fast and decide early, backed by 4–5 installations at a major Indian automotive OEM and… | ||
| Your LabVIEW Code Is a Work of Art... But I Can't Read It | Darren Nattinger | 55m |
Argues that style and prettiness do not equal readability and proves it by building and annotating several attractive but unreadable VIs then fixing them with… | ||
| The LabVIEW Experiment Live! - LabVIEW Podcast | Norm Kirchner | 53m |
Open source in LabVIEW shows concrete wins and concrete pain: a contributed variant library enables VI↔JSON and underpins AI work, Rolf’s zip DLL powers VIPM… | ||
| 2x7 DVE Config | Aaron Gelfand | 07m |
A reusable configuration library that uses a tree-based configuration with delimited names and module-declared items, defaults and per-item revert-to-default… | ||
| 3x7 Importance of Legacy Test Systems | John Wu | 08m |
Argues that cheap upkeep beats replacement by showing concrete tactics: regular preventative maintenance, using a compressed air can to clear dust, and where… | ||
| Optimizing Your Code Execution: Case Study: Run-time... | Quentin "Q" Alldredge | 49m |
Built a LabVIEW runtime spellchecker and benchmarks real options: dictionary file of 76,976 words, test text of 67,341 words, 1,000 iterations per test. Binary… | ||
| 1x7 Summer of LabVIEW 2024 | Derrick Bommarito | 07m |
Scores for Word Search show runtimes down to 6 ms and leaderboards tightening around ~50 ms, with automated scoring, multiple submissions (some users submit… | ||
| 4x7 G AI Assistant for LabVIEW (Project Code Name) | Jim Kring | 08m |
Project code name G AI Assistant for LabVIEW integrates large language models into the LabVIEW IDE using a Python VI server API that can traverse G objects… | ||
| 5x7 Subarrays and Substrings | Greg Richardson | 08m |
Claim: LabVIEW creates subarrays and substrings as zero-copy views that defer copies until an output node forces a real buffer, so many split/index operations… | ||
| Stop Straightening Wires - Focus on what matters | Sam Taggart | 48m |
Argues that formatting time is wasted and demonstrates an autoformatter called Blue - It's like Black but for LabVIEW that runs as a gcli tool and via a tools… | ||
| DQMH Generic Networking | Joerg Hampel | 51m |
A generic networking endpoint for DQMH called GenNet implements a TCP client‑server abstraction (two protocols: variant protocol and plain string), is free and… | ||
| 7x7 From Ideas to Reality | Casey May | 07m |
Announcements that turn ideas into code not slogans: the G Exchange hosts community-vetted LabVIEW ideas and now schedules recurring mob programming sessions… | ||
| Decoupling in Practice - How Good Software Engineering Can Save... | Allen Smith | 29m |
Claims that long LabVIEW load and build times come from unexpected cyclic and deep dependency chains, with real cases like 20 minutes to load and builds… | ||
| Innovate, Validate, Elevate: LabVIEW Quality Paradigm | Kevin Shirey | 51m |
Claims concrete changes: automated requirement coverage reports from GitLab artifacts, a requirements traceability matrix that pulls Jira/Monday links, and CI… | ||
| 6x7 The ONLY correct way to make Class VI Icons (And other icon...) | Hunter Smith | 07m |
Claims that a 7‑pixel class banner is the only correct approach and that 12‑pixel banners cause ugly midriffs; uses the LabVIEW icon editor, the text tab (not… | ||
| Using LabVIEW and LoRa for Long-Distance Status and Control | Matthew Harrison | 37m |
A working LabVIEW proof of concept talks to Meshtastic-flashed LoRa nodes over a USB serial port using the Meshtastic CLI so central commands toggle LEDs and… | ||
| Using LabVIEW To Do Totally Legal Things Online | Eric Stach | 24m |
Demonstrates a working LabVIEW API that controls an NVR with no vendor API by issuing real GET and POST messages, capturing exact URLs and bodies with Burp… | ||
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