Makers, students get access to design software

22nd March 2017

Mick Elliott

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Students, makers and hobbyists can access National Instruments LabVIEW Home Bundle for the first time via from Farnell element14’s Design Centre. With the LabVIEW Home Bundle, students, makers and hobbyists can now also benefit from visual programming, removing the need to write lines of code and worry about semi-colons and syntax.

The LabVIEW Home bundle brings together the LabVIEW Full Development System with LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module, LabVIEW MathScript RT Module and LabVIEW Application Builder Module.

LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is already used by millions of engineers and scientists to increase productivity when building measurement and control systems.

It differs from traditional programming languages such as C, C++, or Java, which are programmed with text by facilitating visual programming. LabVIEW can be used for problem solving, data acquisition and analysis, instrument control, automated testing and validation, and prototyping.

The graphical programming syntax makes it simple to visualise, create, and code engineering systems, accelerating the productivity of engineers and scientists by reducing test times and delivering business insights based on collected data.

Users benefit from accelerated development through simple drag-and-drop interaction to create programs called virtual instruments (VIs), connecting terminals, functions, constants, and structures with wires on a block diagram and other applications in a single environment.

Peter Wenzel,Global Software Product Line Manager, Premier Farnell, commented: “As the Development Distributor, Farnell element14 brings our customers closer to the world’s leading software companies to support their design journeys. The introduction of the LabVIEW Home Bundle makes professional grade software accessible to students, makers and hobbyists, giving them access to the same tools that are used by professional engineers. We are actively encouraging the next generation of design engineers, supporting them as they develop, with our industry leading portfolio of embedded, PCB, and mechanical software and technical expertise available on the element14 Design Centre.”