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I have recently been looking at code that suffers from a lack of synonyms. Everything in the system has a system-to-component-to-element relationship. There are so many systems and components and elements running around, it is hard to figure out what's up. I've seen this many times in my career. You'll see this in LabVIEW if you look at the collision of naming conventions that happened with libraries and classes -- parent and child are used both for the inheritance relationship of the class and for the virtual folder membership of the project tree. Ug. It is one of our primary jobs as the authors of software to name things well. "Well" means distinctly, precisely, accurately, simply and unambiguously. Non-English speakers may have an excuse -- I do not know how plentiful synonyms are in the world's human languages. In English, we are blessed with a cornucopia of phrases, a symphony of words tuned to exactly the note we are seeking. In an effort to combat this in your code, I am offering up this list of synonyms. The next time you are creating an API with a relationship, please consider using the full richness of our language. Feel free to add more as they occur to you. For bonus points, post glyphs to go along with the pairs that can be used in VI icons. Several of these are already part of the NI glyph library in the Icon Editor. whole part wrapper core system component speaker listener master slave outer inner primary secondary facade structure server client framework plug-in source sink parent child manager delegate caller callee refer refee source destination source target original copy controller puppet interface implementation object aspect container content amalgam element genotype phenotype base derived director actor exterior interior recipe ingredient body organ super sub group member real proxy package piece aggregate fragment general specific construct foundation product factor view model shell kernel mask identity carapace meat leader follower application add-on face heart sum segment edge locus commander toady senior junior owner operator

USI is NI's Universal Storage Interface. Of the other items in the list, I'd be more interested in the Deployable Licenses entry - are you using remote panels? A missing license will break the VI as well. Both of these "should" be available under Additional Installers. Is it possible to distribute debug-enabled applications through the installer and then attach to them after install? I've never tried, but it'd be really awesome if you could.

Oh, I don't know. Quite possible with Labview distributions I was talking more in context with IEC61850 rather than the OPs requirement (but I can see that I wasn't clear on that). It seems, from a casual perusal ,that it (IEC61850) is targeting similar requirements to Ethercat (the 4ms deterministic messaging - Fast Transfer of events requirement for example). In this scenario, I can see UDP multicast being very useful.and much easier for a device to "register" for messaging or "listening" for status events rather than the controller opening specific connections (and the overheads in the controller associated with copying messages to multiple clients).