NI Announces New Ethernet/LAN and USB Instrument Drivers; NI Instrument Driver Network Offers Drivers for More than 350 Ethernet/LAN and USB Instrument Models.AUSTIN, Texas -- Engineers and scientists now can use new 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 ) LabVIEW instrument drivers to control a wide range of instruments through the standard connectivity of Ethernet/LAN and USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. . Included are instrument drivers to control LeCroy's latest line of high-performance oscilloscopes, such as the WaveMaster, WavePro, WaveRunner and WaveSurfer via Ethernet/LAN, as well as the Tektronix AFG AFG Afghanistan (international vehicle registration) AFG American Financial Group AFG Assistance to Firefighters Grant AFG Arbeitsförderungsgesetz (German: Labor Advancement Law) AFG Accreditation for Growth 3000 Series arbitrary/function generators via USB, Ethernet/LAN and GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) An IEEE 488 standard parallel interface used for attaching sensors and programmable instruments to a computer. Using a 24-pin connector, up to 15 devices can be daisy chained together. HP's version is the HPIB. . "The NI certified Plug and Play instrument driver for the very popular NI LabVIEW development environment helps our customers quickly develop their applications," said Kevin Fitzgerald Kevin Terrel Fitzgerald (born ca. 1951), a native of Denver, Colorado, is a veterinarian at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital. He is notable for being on the Animal Planet show Emergency Vets for many years. , vice president of sales at LeCroy North America. "Using LabVIEW to control our new high-performance oscilloscopes across Ethernet/LAN helps our customers get up and running as quickly as possible while still taking advantage of the most advanced functionality in our instruments." While GPIB remains the most widely used bus for instrument-to-PC connectivity, the ubiquitous nature of Ethernet/LAN and USB ports on today's PCs attracts many instrument vendors and engineers to these new connectivity options. NI offers an industry-leading software platform, including the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, NI-VISA I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output library and NI certified instruments drivers on the NI Instrument Driver Network, to ensure seamless integration and connectivity between the PC and Ethernet/LAN or USB instruments. Engineers can use the widely adopted NI-VISA I/O library to create applications that communicate with standalone instruments across any bus, including Ethernet/LAN, USB, GPIB, serial and FireWire(R), without requiring any future modifications to their software if they change bus options. The National Instruments vision of virtual instrumentation is based on leveraging PC standard I/O and off-the-shelf components. In addition to more than 350 Ethernet/LAN and USB instrument drivers, NI offers many other products to further enhance these connectivity options, including instrument control products that deliver Ethernet/LAN or USB connectivity to existing GPIB and serial instruments; Ethernet/LAN controllers and modules for the network-ready 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 platform; stand-alone Ethernet/LAN-based platforms, such as National Instruments CompactRIO and Compact Fieldpoint; and USB-based data acquisition products, such as the NI USB-92xx devices. About the Instrument Driver Network The Instrument Driver Network is the industry's largest source for LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI instrument drivers. Engineers and scientists can visit the site at www.ni.com/idnet to access more than 4,000 instrument drivers from more than 200 vendors as well as the new Ethernet/LAN and USB PC standard I/O instrument drivers. About National Instruments National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation -- a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,700 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers can obtain investment information from the company's investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. department by calling 512-683-5090, e-mailing nati@ni.com or visiting www.ni.com/nati. CompactRIO, CVI CVI C (Language) Virtual Instrument CVI Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (journal) CVI Chronic Venous Insufficiency CVI Coastal Vulnerability Index CVI Canaan Valley Institute , FieldPoint, LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI, ni.com and NI-VISA are trademarks of National Instruments. FireWire is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. 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