The LabVIEW Real-Time Module helps you create reliable, stand-alone applications that execute on embedded hardware devices. The LabVIEW Real-Time Module is add-on software for the LabVIEW programming environment that you can use to create and deploy real-time, distributed system applications for test, monitoring, and control.

LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module is an add-on to LabVIEW where you can do simulations and create control systems within the LabVIEW environment. You find more information here. Below we see an example where we simulate a process in LabVIEW using the features in LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module.

LabVIEW has several additional modules and Toolkits for Control and Simulation purposes, e.g., “LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module”, “LabVIEW PID and Fuzzy Logic Toolkit”, “LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit” and “LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit”. LabVIEW MathScript is also useful for Control Design and Simulation.

Before proceeding, it should be noted that the LabVIEW MathScript Module (and MathScript RT Module) is deprecated as of 2023. The latest version released is 2022 Q3. When using MathScript Nodes on an RT target, not all functions are supported.