National Instruments LabVIEW 8 Wins Two Design News Awards; NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module, SignalExpress 1.1, CompactRIO DSA Also Honored.AUSTIN, Texas -- Readers of Design News voted the 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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NATI NATI National Association of Teen Institutes NATI Newfoundland Association of Technical Industries ) LabVIEW 8 graphical development platform the winner in both the Test and Measurement and Design and Development Tools categories in the annual Design News "Golden Mousetrap" Awards. The NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module was named a co-winner in the Digital Control/Embedded Computing category. NI SignalExpress 1.1 interactive measurement software and an NI CompactRIO dynamic signal analyzer (DSA (1) (Directory Server Agent) An X.500 program that looks up the address of a recipient in a Directory Information Base (DIB), also known as white pages. It accepts requests from the Directory User Agent (DUA) counterpart in the workstation. ), cRIO-4408, were named runners-up in the Analog Control and Digital Rapid Prototyping Building a part one layer at a time using a method of additive fabrication such as 3D printing. Such parts are used for concept modeling to determine if the product design meets the customer's expectations. Tools categories, respectively. "After we announced the Golden Mousetrap Award finalists, we saw an overwhelming response from our readers in favor of LabVIEW 8 as both a design and test tool, demonstrating its scalability across multiple applications," said Karen Field, editor-in-chief of Design News. "Our readers selected LabVIEW 8 and the other winning NI products to be among the most innovative products of 2005." The NI LabVIEW 8 win in both the Test and Measurement and Design and Development Tools categories illustrates the platform's effectiveness for diverse applications and stages in the product development life cycle. Introduced 20 years ago, LabVIEW continues to be one of the industry's most powerful and intuitive tools for creating more efficient test, control and design applications, and the new features in LabVIEW 8 make it even easier to create and deploy an intelligent distributed system See distributed computing. distributed system - A collection of (probably heterogeneous) automata whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system appears as one local machine. . The LabVIEW Embedded Development Module extends LabVIEW to any 32-bit embedded processor A CPU chip used in a system other than a general purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such chips are used by the billions every year in a myriad of products. See embedded system. , providing engineers and scientists with a graphical approach to algorithm design, simulation, prototyping and deployment of custom designs for embedded systems. With the LabVIEW Embedded Development Module, engineers and scientists can design algorithms and program their applications using an intuitive graphical dataflow language. The National Instruments cRIO-4408 module is one of the industry's smallest, most rugged eight-channel DSAs, with 24-bit measurements and Ethernet/LAN communication. Engineers can use the NI cRIO-4408 to acquire high-quality measurements at speeds up to 50 kS/s with 102 dB dynamic range. National Instruments SignalExpress 1.1 interactive measurement software offers engineers a way to quickly acquire, compare, automate and store measurements. SignalExpress 1.1 is a completely interactive, drag-and-drop measurement software tool developed specifically for taking mixed-signal benchtop measurements. Using SignalExpress, engineers can quickly generate and measure analog and digital signals with PC-based and stand-alone instruments. The awards recognize the most exciting new engineering products introduced during the past year through the categories of electronics/test, materials/fastening, motion control/automation and software/hardware. Design News readers voted online for the winner of each subcategory sub·cat·e·go·ry n. pl. sub·cat·e·go·ries A subdivision that has common differentiating characteristics within a larger category. from the listed finalists, and winners were announced in the Design News Special Awards Issue March 20. Design News, in print for 60 years, has a circulation of more than 170,000 and covers the latest tools, components and materials used in mechanical and electromechanical The use of electricity to run moving parts. Disk drives, printers and motors are examples. Electromechanical systems must be designed for the eventual deterioration of moving components that wear over time. The first TVs were electromechanical systems (see video/TV history). design. For LabVIEW developers looking to expand their programming skills and stay current on NI software and hardware products, National Instruments is presenting a series of LabVIEW Developer Education Days throughout the United States until June 12. To obtain more information and to register, readers can visit www.ni.com/devday. About National Instruments For 30 years, National Instruments (www.ni.com) has been 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 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 , PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , PCI Express, 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. and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,800 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. CompactRIO, 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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