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LabVIEW Base LabVIEW Full LabVIEW Professional
Key differentiators
  • Recommended for desktop measurement applications
  • Includes device drivers for NI hardware and third-party instruments
  • Includes basic mathematics and signal processing
  • Recommended for inline advanced mathematics and signal processing
  • Required for signal processing add-ons
  • Required for real-time and FPGA hardware
  • Recommended for applications requiring code validation
  • Includes code and application deployment capabilities
  • Includes multiple software engineering add-ons
OS Support
Windows
✅
✅
✅
Mac
-
✅
✅
Linux
-
✅
✅
Hardware Integration
Acquiring data from NI hardware
✅
✅
✅
Acquiring data from third-party hardware
✅
✅
✅
Deploying to real-time hardware
-
Requires add-on
Requires add-on
Deploying to FPGA hardware
-
Requires add-on
Requires add-on
Programming Capabilities
Native graphical programming
✅
✅
✅
Multithreaded code execution
✅
✅
✅
Code debugging
✅
✅
✅
Event-driven programming
✅
✅
✅
Object-oriented programming
✅
✅
✅
Mathematics
Standard math functions
✅
✅
✅
Probability and statistics
✅
✅
✅
Linear algebra
-
✅
✅
Curve fitting
-
✅
✅
Differential equations
-
✅
✅
Interpolation and extrapolation
-
✅
✅
Calculus
-
✅
✅
Signal Processing and Control
Signal measurements
-
✅
✅
Signal generation
-
✅
✅
PID and fuzzy logic
-
✅
✅
Signal conditioning and filtering
-
✅
✅
Windowing
-
✅
✅
Signal operations
-
✅
✅
Transforms
-
✅
✅
Wavelet analysis
-
-
✅
Time series analysis
-
-
✅
Vision analysis
Requires add-on
Requires add-on
Requires add-on
Model-based control and simulation
-
Requires add-on
Requires add-on
Read, Write, Share Data
Read and write to file
✅
✅
✅
Network communications
✅
✅
✅
Visualize and analyze image files
Requires add-on
Requires add-on
Requires add-on
Web services
-
✅
✅
Report generation for Microsoft Office
-
-
✅
Database connectivity
-
-
✅
Software Engineering Tools
Graphical diff
✅
✅
✅
Graphical merge
-
-
✅
Dynamic code analysis
-
-
✅
Static code analysis
-
-
✅
Unit testing framework
-
-
✅
Software Interoperability and Code Integration
Call DLLs and .NET assemblies
✅
✅
✅
Integrate text-based source code (C/C++, Python, and more)
✅
✅
✅
Call MATLAB code
✅
✅
✅
Code Deployment and Distribution
Build executables
-
-
✅
Build shared libraries
-
-
✅
Build installers
-
-
✅
Control programs remotely through Internet
-
✅
✅
Create web applications
Requires add-on
Requires add-on
Requires add-on

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