If you are performing any sort of mathermatical analysis, then you should upgrade your base version of LabVIEW to either full or professional. The extra cost for the upgrade will be paid for as soon as you call the Sinewaveform VI you mentioned. In addition to function generation, you will get analysis routines for FFTs, Linear Alg, Filters, Windowing, etc.
I used to have the base version only, and I wonder how I got anything done. It seemed that I always needed to write my own math routines. What a waste of time! Just call the ones that the experts write, debug, and maintain.
