National Instruments Improves Instrument Control With LabVIEW SignalExpress.New Measurement Software Increases Benchtop Productivity, Gives Engineers Control of More Than 400 Instruments AUSTIN, Texas -- 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 ) recently announced NI LabVIEW SignalExpress, an extension of the popular LabVIEW graphical system design Graphical system design is a modern approach to designing, prototyping, and deploying embedded systems that combines open graphical programming with COTS hardware to dramatically simplify development, resulting in higher-quality designs with a migration to custom design. platform, for acquiring, analyzing and presenting data without programming. LabVIEW SignalExpress is interactive measurement software that improves productivity with an intuitive drag-and-drop environment to manage measurements and signals from more than 400 stand-alone and modular instruments. LabVIEW SignalExpress also eliminates tedious off-line analysis with real-time analysis, which engineers can accomplish while acquiring data. They also can publish measurement and analysis results in customized reports. Engineers using LabVIEW SignalExpress benefit from having an "always-on" instrument while retaining the power and flexibility of a software-based virtual instrumentation Virtual Instrumentation is the use of customizable software and modular measurement hardware to create user-defined measurement systems, called virtual instruments. solution. For example, from within one software interface, engineers can communicate and control both stand-alone and PC-based instruments. They also can rapidly perform measurements and limit time. Additionally, with enhanced analysis capabilities, engineers can view relevant results and reduce the probability of retaking RETAKING. The taking one's goods, wife, child, &c., from another, who without right has taken possession thereof. Vide Recaption; Rescue. measurements. Engineers can further automate and extend their applications with the LabVIEW graphical environment because LabVIEW SignalExpress automatically generates LabVIEW code from existing projects. LabVIEW SignalExpress also makes the platform more accessible for third-party hardware users. "Our customers are continually seeking simpler and more efficient ways to conduct PC-based measurement analysis on signal data captured from the latest Tektronix oscilloscopes," said Bob Blume, vice president of value-based oscilloscopes at Tektronix. "Using LabVIEW SignalExpress with plug-and-play 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. connectivity, our customers can easily synchronize See synchronization. data and control their Tektronix DPO DPO Direct Public Offering (finance/investment) DPO Direct Public Offering DPO District Police Officer (Pakistan) DPO Days Payables Outstanding DPO Document Process Outsourcing DPO Days Past Ovulation 4000 oscilloscope oscilloscope (əsĭl`əskōp'), electronic device used to produce visual displays corresponding to electrical signals. Displays of such nonelectrical phenomena as the variations of a sound's intensity can be made if the phenomena are from a familiar PC-based environment and improve their measurement productivity." LabVIEW SignalExpress also provides improved data-logging capabilities for identifying and retrieving important information in the data. LabVIEW SignalExpress logs measurements to disk using the technical data management streaming (TDMS (Technical Document Management System) A software suite from IBM designed to support the engineering requirements for technical documents. Aimed at the airline and aerospace industries, TDMS integrates a number of off-the-shelf applications to interface with a ) file format. Engineers can access TDMS files in all National Instruments software products as well as third-party applications. With LabVIEW SignalExpress, engineers can acquire live measurements, log their data to a disk and easily export the data to a spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. . LabVIEW SignalExpress also provides data-logging features such as alarm monitoring and condition logging. In addition, because the software is based on LabVIEW Express technology, engineers can easily generate LabVIEW graphical programming code to extend their applications with original user interfaces or add custom logic for more advanced data-logging applications. Readers can view LabVIEW SignalExpress demonstrations and get technical information by visiting www.ni.com/signalexpress. Readers also can download LabVIEW SignalExpress LE, a limited version of the software, for free by visiting www.ni.com/signalexpresseval. About National Instruments National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,000 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past eight 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. [TABLE OMITTED] LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI, ni.com and SignalExpress are trademarks of National Instruments. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. |
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