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What questions were answered after the Research?
 A LabVIEW program and MATLAB program were written as results of my project. The LabVIEW program written was a part of the project in learning LabVIEW. The program continuously read in temperatures from the my office using a FieldPoint device (National Instruments). The FP-TC-120 is a software configurable device that measures thermocouple or mollivolt signals. I had to configure the device in
National Instuments Measurement & Automation (NI-MAX) and connect it through the serial port. A type K thermocouple was attached to terminals 1 and 2 to complete the setup of the hardware.
The program created used wires and graphical representations to graph continuous temperatures on a chart and read out how many temperatures were read in. A table was also setup to document the actual temperature to six decimal places.
Part of a MATLAB code was also created to test for functionality in the RF boards. The code read in a vector of voltages, and then determined whether they were "in range" or "out of range". This is established as an automated procedure to check-out software designed radios. It will save ORNL staff time and energy in making sure that the boards are functioning as intended.
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