Customer-Based Advisory Board Creates LabVIEW Instrument Driver Standards.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2003 Nine-Company Board Including Flextronics, Philips Improves LabVIEW Instrument Connectivity National Instruments National Instruments, or NI (NASDAQ: NATI), is an American company with over 4,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries founded in 1976 by Dr. James Truchard, Bill Nowlin and Jeff Kodosky. (Nasdaq:NATI NATI National Association of Teen Institutes NATI Newfoundland Association of Technical Industries ) today announced the establishment of the LabVIEW Instrument Driver Advisory Board to guide the architectural and development standards of instrument connectivity and instrument drivers for NI LabVIEW users. The nine-company advisory board, which includes Flextronics, Philips and Rockwell Collins Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) is a large United States-based international company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, primarily providing aviation and information technology systems, solutions, and services to governmental agencies and aircraft manufacturers. , supplies and interprets customer feedback to focus on usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. , flexibility and performance of LabVIEW instrument drivers. Because LabVIEW stands as a leading development environment for instrument control, NI and its customers created this advisory board to further investigate industry-leading technology and to ensure LabVIEW instrument drivers provide maximum benefit to the end user. The board also contributes to a larger effort to establish standard LabVIEW drivers as part of the Instrument Driver Developer Program (IDDP IDDP International Day of Disabled Persons IDDP Iceland Deep Drilling Project IDDP Interface Design Definition Paper ), which enables customers to easily integrate LabVIEW applications with a wide variety of instruments using little or no programming. IDDP members use the advisory board standards to submit instrument drivers to the Instrument Driver Network, the industry's largest source for instrument drivers at www.ni.com/idnet, where engineers and scientists can download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. drivers for more than 2,200 instruments from over 150 different vendors. "As long-time LabVIEW users, we are eager to be a part of this standards body to help define the future of LabVIEW instrument driver capabilities and corresponding instrument driver features," said David Rosenthal, LabVIEW Instrument Driver Advisory Board member and director of software engineering at Flextronics. "By helping to define these standards, we can ensure that LabVIEW instrument drivers continue to meet our development needs." The advisory board focuses on native LabVIEW source-code instrument drivers that are easier to use and develop. The advisory board holds regular meetings and conducts quarterly conference calls to create a consistent review process and ensure continuous improvement in LabVIEW instrument connectivity. The board creates consistent driver architectures; publishes high quality, user-focused instrument driver standards; defines new instrument driver development tools; evaluates new technologies including buses and communication protocols and provides driver development guidance to IDDP members based on customer feedback. About National Instruments National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation Virtual Instrumentation is the use of customizable software and modular measurement hardware to create user-defined measurement systems, called virtual instruments. -- a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for customers worldwide through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI (PCI EXtensions for Instrumentation) A peripheral bus specialized for data acquisition and real time control systems. Introduced in 1997, PXI uses the CompactPCI 3U and 6U form factors and adds trigger lines, a local bus and other functions suited for measurement modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,000 employees and direct operations in 40 countries. In 2002, the company sold products to more than 25,000 different companies in more than 80 countries around the world. For the past four consecutive years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers may obtain investment information from the company's investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. department at 512-683-5090, by sending e-mail to nati@ni.com or on the Web at www.ni.com/nati. LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI and ni.com are trademarks of National Instruments. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. |
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