I looked at LabView more than a decade ago, and was very impressed, but I put it aside as test and measurement (T&M) was not at the top of my list of things to do. In the meantime, LabView has become ...

Austin, TX — National Instruments at its NIWeek event held here this week debuted LabView 2009 graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. The new ...

The quest for better throughput, faster changeover times, and less waste and downtimes has made machine-automation systems more complicated. Besides handling logic or process controls, systems today ...

Embedded designers have implemented heterogeneous architectures since the advent of commercially viable FPGAs. Initially, FPGAs acted primarily as glue logic for an interface between processing ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

USA: National Instruments announced LabVIEW 8.6, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. Building on the inherent ...

Developing a closed-loop control system for a hydraulic cylinder that is both cost-effective and highly reliable. EUROelectronics is a machine builder that was asked to design a closed-loop hydraulic ...

National Instruments unveils LabVIEW 8.6 to meet the challenge of parallel programming. By Mike Richardson. The latest version of LabVIEW has been launched to take advantage of the latest multicore, ...

The LabVIEW Real-Time Module 8.6 introduced powerful new features for programming CompactRIO hardware that reduce development time and complexity as well as provide tools for monitoring and ...

Jeff Kodosky, co-founder and business and technology fellow at National Instruments, was an architect of the LabView graphical programming language. On visit to the NIDays technology conference in ...