National Instruments LabVIEW for Embedded Design Wins Best in Show Award at Freescale Technology Forum; NI LabVIEW Software Targets Freescale's ColdFire(R) Controller and Other 32-bit Processors.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 ) LabVIEW software running on a Freescale ColdFire(R) microcontroller won the 2006 Freescale Technology Forum (FTF FTF Face To Face (in person) FTF Freescale Technology Forum FTF Fair Trade Federation FTF First Things First (Chattanooga, TN family strengthening program) FTF First to Find ) Best in Show Award for "Best in Class Development Tools." NI was chosen by a panel of industry press and analysts from a field of more than 75 exhibitors for its innovative use of Freescale technology based on technical merit, innovation, market impact and practical demonstration. At FTF, National Instruments demonstrated 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. with NI LabVIEW. Using LabVIEW software for algorithm design and simulation on a desktop PC, prototyping on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and deployment to either the NI CompactRIO embedded platform or a 32-bit embedded processor, designers can increase their product design productivity by 10 times or more. In addition to graphical programming software for custom designs, NI offers an extensive range of off-the-shelf hardware such as the NI CompactRIO platform, a low-cost reconfigurable embedded system for rapid prototyping and low-volume deployments. The winning application demonstrated executable code generated with the LabVIEW Embedded Development Module on a ColdFire MCF5329 evaluation board. The 68K/ColdFire embedded controller portfolio includes a broad roadmap of cost-effective 32-bit solutions that emphasize control, connectivity and security for a wide range of consumer and industrial markets. Backed by a 25-year heritage of 68K development and support, the 68K/ColdFire devices are code compatible, allowing easy migration throughout the portfolio without investing in entirely new tool sets. Variable-length RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. architecture gives designers greater flexibility and exceptional code density, and efficient use of on-chip memory means designers don't have to sacrifice performance to keep system costs in line. Interactive LabVIEW front panel controls and indicators help designers interactively experiment and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. embedded code more quickly than conventional approaches. LabVIEW includes hundreds of analysis functions for signal processing, linear algebra, curve fitting, statistics and calculus. In addition to a framework for integrating 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 drivers, LabVIEW also features functionality for integrating real-world data early in the design process. LabVIEW graphical programming provides faster design iterations, resulting in a shorter design cycle. Design teams using the LabVIEW graphical programming methods require fewer embedded specialists. About LabVIEW for Graphical System Design The LabVIEW embedded design and prototyping platform combines the LabVIEW graphical development environment with off-the-shelf measurement and control hardware for design, simulation, rapid prototyping, implementation, validation and verification of embedded systems. Intuitive graphical dataflow programming empowers engineers and scientists to rapidly develop and iterate it·er·ate tr.v. it·er·at·ed, it·er·at·ing, it·er·ates To say or perform again; repeat. See Synonyms at repeat. [Latin iter on designs, reducing the time from concept to prototype. Using LabVIEW with tightly integrated NI 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 or CompactRIO hardware further reduces time to market by eliminating the need for costly integration steps such as board bring-up. After prototyping, domain experts can deploy custom designs to an extensive range of off-the-shelf NI hardware as well as custom hardware. 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 (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 4,000 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. 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, 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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