ME 120 Experimental Methods

Laboratory

Ananda Mysore

Spring 2008 Ananda Mysore

String, Enum, and Error Cases
String Case Enum Case Error
Case

ME 120 Experimental Methods Laboratory

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State Machine Architecture

Advantages
 Can go from any state from any
other
 Easy to modify and debug

Disadvantages
 Can lose events if two occur at the
same time
States:
0: Startup
1: Idle
2: Event 1
3: Event 2
4: Shutdown

ME 120 Experimental Methods Laboratory

Spring 2008 Ananda Mysore
Simple State Machine

ME 120 Experimental Methods Laboratory

Spring 2008 Ananda Mysore
Strings
• A string is a sequence of displayable or - characters (ASCII)
• Many uses — displaying messages, instrument control, file I/O
• String control/indicator is in the Controls»String subpalette

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String Display Modes
Normal display \ code display

Password display Hex display

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String Functions
String Length

Concatenate Strings
(spaces here)

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String Functions
String Subset

Match Pattern

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Converting Strings to Numerics:
Scan From String

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Converting Numerics to Strings: Build String

ME 120 Experimental Methods Laboratory

Spring 2008 Ananda Mysore
Formula Node Note semicolon

• In the Structures subpalette

• Implement complicated equations
• Variables created at border
• Variable names are case sensitive
• Each statement must terminate with a semicolon (;)
• Context Help Window shows available functions

ME 120 Experimental Methods Laboratory

Spring 2008 Ananda Mysore
Decision Making with Formula
Nodes

Two different ways of using an if-then statement in a Formula Node

Both structures produce the same result

ME 120 Experimental Methods Laboratory

Spring 2008 Ananda Mysore