Friday 1 June 2012

LabVIEW Training @ IIT Rajasthan by NI

01, June 2012
I always fascinate, from where these companies get those bunch of talented guys. This time i am talking about National Instrument famously known as NI. The training was organized by IIT Rajasthan and a guy came from NI to train us.
The guy came was extremely talented guy, from NI for imparting training to us. Appearance of the guy was normal but as he started to give introduction his talent was obviously visible. And as the days were passing he was looking more smart and more handsome to me obviously his intelligence made me die on him ha ha ha ha :). The training was of 10 days from 21May,2012 to 31May,2012. Name of the guy was Raghunandan Mukund, and i liked the way he was teaching to us. The thing that i liked most was that he did not hesitate to give extra knowledge i mean knowledge that is deviated from the course but i still feel useful atleast for me beause it motivated me alot, other than the LabVIEW (for which he was sent to IIT Rajasthan). First of all those who don't know, LabVIEW is the software made by National Instrument used to program hardware platform essentially made by themselves only.  If you would work on LabVIEW you will appreciate the beauty of LabVIEW. But i always think that where is the executable. Because whenever you write program in LabVIEW you don't have to compile it. The program compiles itself whenever you are writing your program periodically compiler invokes and compile the program you don't have to invoke compiler explicitly. Hence whenever you click on run button it runs the program and you can see the interactive output on the Front Panel. But still where is the executable which runs on the processor Don't know and i forgot to ask him. It's okay i will figure it out somehow.

           So i was talking about the guy who was teaching us, yes Raghu. When Raghu used this sentence ---->"Two or three years after you gonna start your own start up and you will think which NI instrument you should use to develop your application then according to blah blah methodology you will decide". The instances when he used this sentence, I felt a spark in me. You can easily see a smile on my face when he used this sentence. He used this sentence more than two or three times, i think there is something in a corner in  his mind to start of his own company. Many times when he was teaching my heart was saying beauty man beauty at the same time i felt jealous to him and comparing myself with him (How can this guy having much more knowledge than me ha ha :) :) :) ). I would not say that i understood everything he taught to us, many times i could not understand but i think this is because my limited intellectual level and lack of knowledge i am having, that's why  i could not understand. Many instances he inspired and motivated us.
            Now something about the modules that we learned during the session.
1. Core 1 (Basics of LabVIEW)
2. Core 2 (Again some basics and required for advance level learning)
3. Real time programming in LabVIEW
4. Finally on FPGA (awesome and i liked it) although it was short course and not covered advance topics on FPGA. But i always like basics, don't want to do complex things .. ha ha :) :) .
            In totality the experience was awesome and a satisfying experience. I made lot of friends interacted with them. Raghu in every class you asked about the feedback ----->"Guys  are you having any feedback for me?" So Raghu this full post is for you only. Feedback from me and dedicated to you. Wish to learn more from you in future don't know whether it will fulfill or not ha ha :)  and also the knowledge i learned from you i can apply somewhere to make something such a nice and cool stuff useful for all, will try to contribute.

Last words to say that i felt very irritated when i was typing the word LabVIEW because i have to use caps lock key three times, caps lock on "L" caps lock off "ab" then on "VIEW" then again off, typing this line itself was painful stuff but i don't want to play with the integrity of the word,  so LabVIEW    (short for Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) thanks to wikipedia.
My good wishes with you Raghu. Sorry for not using postfix "sir" after Raghu but i think you are dude respect is implicit and always feel you as my friend.
And thanks to IIT  for arranging such a nice course for us.

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