National Instruments announces that new ComponentWorks delivers 32-Bit OLE controls for Visual Basic and Windows 95.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1996--National Instruments (NASDAQ/NMS:NATI NATI National Association of Teen Institutes NATI Newfoundland Association of Technical Industries ) -- The Virtual Instrumentation Virtual Instrumentation is the use of customizable software and modular measurement hardware to create user-defined measurement systems, called virtual instruments. Company(TM) -- Monday announced a collection of add-on controls and libraries that extends Visual Basic from a general-purpose programming tool to a world-class virtual instrumentation development environment. ComponentWorks consists of four major functional components for building virtual instruments: data acquisition (DAQ See data acquisition. ) controls; 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. instrument drivers; analysis libraries; and user interface controls for creating real-time graphs, meters, knobs, tanks, thermometers, and gauges in Visual Basic. Users can combine these instrumentation-focused 32-bit OLE controls and DLLs with other available third-party OLE controls to quickly and easily build extensive virtual instruments in Visual Basic. Virtual instruments are used pervasively in the test & measurement and industrial automation markets in a variety of scientific and engineering applications. ComponentWorks DAQ controls are a series of 32-bit OLE controls for controlling National Instruments DAQ hardware. With ComponentWorks, DAQ programming is simplified to setting a collection of DAQ properties. For GPIB instrument control, ComponentWorks offers a collection of GPIB instrument drivers packaged as standard 32-bit DLLs for controlling more than 70 instruments from Hewlett-Packard, Tektronix, Keithley, Fluke, Wavetek, and more. The ComponentWorks Base Package includes a standard Analysis Library for performing statistics computations, such as finding the mean, standard deviation In statistics, the average amount a number varies from the average number in a series of numbers. (statistics) standard deviation - (SD) A measure of the range of values in a set of numbers. , and maximum and minimum values of an array of data. The ComponentWorks Standard Package adds DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive functions to the Base Package. The ComponentWorks Full Development System adds a library of instrument drivers to the Base Package as well as the ComponentWorks Advanced Analysis Library -- a 32-bit DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. with more complex capabilities, such as signal processing, curve-fitting, statistics, signal generation, complex algebra, and matrix operations. To display data, ComponentWorks includes a collection of user interface objects packaged as OLE controls, including knobs, meters, gauges, dials, vertical and horizontal sliders sliders a species of tortoise kept as pets. They have a black shell and a red stripe behind the eye. Called also Chrysemys scripta elegans, red-eared sliders. , a tank control, LED or binary switches, and a graph control. Pricing, Availability, and For More Information The ComponentWorks Full Development System will be available in Q1 1996 for $1,495. The ComponentWorks Standard Package will be available in Q1 1996 for $895. The ComponentWorks Base Package will be available in Q1 1996 for $495. National Instruments, 6504 Bridge Point Parkway, Austin, Texas 78730-5039, 512/794-0100. National Instruments, headquartered in Austin, manufactures software and hardware products for PCs and workstations that scientists and engineers worldwide use to build virtual instrumentation systems. These systems are used for research and industrial applications, such as automated testing, laboratory automation, advanced research, industrial control, factory automation, physiological monitoring, numerical analysis, and data visualization. National Instruments stock is traded on the 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 National Market System under the symbol NATI. Further information on National Instruments may be obtained from the company's SEC filings or by directly contacting the company's Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Department at 512/349-5090. CONTACT: National Instruments, Austin Tad Druart, 512/794-5662 (Editor contact) Joel Rollins, 512/349-5090 (Investor contact) |
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