Debugging Parallel Graphical Program Code

a program code and program technology, applied in the field of graphical programming, can solve the problems that the representation of the code may not easily lend itself to linear interpretation, and it is difficult for the programmer to focus on the code of interes

Active Publication Date: 2017-05-11
NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
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[0017]Thus, some embodiments of the above technique may enable the user to single step through graphical program c...

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In a graphical programming language, however, the representation of the code may not easily lend itself to linear interpretation.
If the graphical program ...

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[0035]The following references are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety as though fully and completely set forth herein:

[0036]U.S. Pat. No. 4,914,568 titled “Graphical System for Modeling a Process and Associated Method,” issued on Apr. 3, 1990.

[0037]U.S. Pat. No. 5,481,741 titled “Method and Apparatus for Providing Attribute Nodes in a Graphical Data Flow Environment”.

[0038]U.S. Pat. No. 6,173,438 titled “Embedded Graphical Programming System” filed Aug. 18, 1997.

[0039]U.S. Pat. No. 6,219,628 titled “System and Method for Configuring an Instrument to Perform Measurement Functions Utilizing Conversion of Graphical Programs into Hardware Implementations,” filed Aug. 18, 1997.

[0040]U.S. Pat. No. 7,210,117 titled “System and Method for Programmatically Generating a Graphical Program in Response to Program Information,” filed Dec. 20, 2000.

[0041]U.S. application Ser. No. ______, titled “Replication Structure in a Graphical Programming Language”, f...

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System and method for debugging a graphical program. A graphical program may be received, e.g., from storage, from another process or device, etc. The program includes parallel graphical program portions, each portion including a graphical program structure and/or an execution path in the graphical program. A first graphical program portion of the parallel graphical program portions may be single step debugged, including executing the single step in the first graphical program portion, and executing, in the background, code in each of the other graphical program portions that is scheduled to execute between start and end of the single step in the first graphical program portion.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to the field of graphical programming, and more particularly to debugging parallel graphical program code.DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART[0002]Graphical programming has become a powerful tool available to programmers. Graphical programming environments such as the National Instruments Corporation's LabVIEW™ product have become very popular. Tools such as LabVIEW™ have greatly increased the productivity of programmers, and increasing numbers of programmers are using graphical programming environments to develop their software applications. In particular, graphical programming tools are being used for test and measurement, data acquisition, process control, human machine interface (HMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) applications, modeling, simulation, image processing / machine vision applications, and motion control, among others.[0003]One of the common features employed in debugging computer programs is the a...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F11/36
CPCG06F11/362
Inventor VALDEZ, JULIAN G.WEIDMAN, BENJAMIN R.BLASIG, DUSTYN K.
Owner NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
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