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In an object oriented design, common functionalities will often be declared in a higher level abstraction, a "Sensor" type in our example.

Many LabVIEW programmers already perform object-oriented programming (OOP). The basic building block is the VI, which is comparable to a subroutine with multiple input and output parameters.