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An FPGA-enabled PXIe-5785 FlexRIO transceiver, which aims to shorten the design cycle for advanced radar applications in aerospace and defence has been released by NI. Advances in the use of the electromagnetic spectrum continue to drive military electronics to stay ahead of emerging threats.

On display in Booth #212 at the 2018 Electronic Design Innovation Conference and Exhibition (EDI CON) USA, taking place October 17th to 18th in Santa Clara, CA, will be new National Instruments AWR software. Booth demonstrations will highlight the V14 release of NI AWR Design Environment platform.

InstrumentStudio software for NI PXI modular instruments made its bow at NIWeek in Austin. InstrumentStudio improves the live, interactive use model for modular instruments and makes debugging while running tests more intuitive. Engineers in the aerospace, automotive and semiconductor industries benefit from a more effective workflow for test system development.

More and more companies need newly-employed graduates to be “game-ready” to take up their tasks as they enter industry. That’s a challenge that National Instruments is looking to meet with the launch of ELVIS III, or to put it slightly more prosaically the Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite III.

Buttressed by customer feedback which revealed 72% want a test and measurement solution tailored to their needs, National Instruments (NI) unveiled LabVIEW 2018 at NIWeek in Austin, Texas. “The only trends are megatrends”, was the opening proclamation from Luke Schreier, Vice President, Automated Test Product Management and Global Marketing Strategy as he unveiled the latest version of the company’s LabView engineering test software, LabVIEW 2018.

SystemLink application software for distributed systems management has been released by NI. It helps improve operational efficiency and decrease maintenance costs through a centralised interface for automating tasks such as software deployment, remote device configuration and system health performance monitoring.

Major automotive manufacturers like Subaru are using NI hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) technology to simulate actual road conditions for electric vehicle testing, eliminating environmental factors to reduce test time and costs. Traditionally, engineers have conducted vehicle tests using finished cars on test courses or public roads to check the vehicle’s performance and safety response.

Endeavouring to offer more efficient approaches to semiconductor test, NI has announced the PXIe-4163 high-density source measure unit (SMU), which provides six times more DC channel density than previous NI PXI SMUs for testing RF, MEMS, and mixed-signal and other analogue semiconductor components.

A release of LabVIEW NXG, the next generation of LabVIEW engineering system design software from National Instruments enables engineers to quickly set up instruments, customise tests to device specifications, and easily view results from any web browser, on any device.

  Provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, NI, has announced the release of NI Trend Watch 2018. The report examines the technological advances propelling our future faster than ever before along with some of the biggest challenges engineers face looking ahead to 2018.

Rugged, distributed and synchronised FieldDAQ devices have been released by NI. The growing sophistication of complex electromechanical systems, such as vehicles, aircraft and industrial equipment, means that validation test must become more rigorous to keep pace with innovation.

The IC-3173 Industrial Controller is NI’s first IP67-rated controller. It is ideally suited to act as an Industrial Internet of Things edge node in extremely harsh locations including spray down manufacturing environments, test cells and outdoor locations without the need for a protective enclosure. The IP67 rating helps ensure reliable operation in the presence of dust and water, in accordance to IEC standard 60529.

The PXIe-1095 chassis from National Instruments (NI) offers 58W of dedicated power and cooling per slot. This represents a 50% increase in power and cooling per slot compared to previously released NI PXI Express chassis. In addition to higher power, the chassis also features a significant reduction in fan noise in its 38W cooling profile mode, delivering a 13dB improvement compared to the previously released PXIe-1085 chassis and making it NI’s quietest PXI Express chassis.

If there is an industry that can embody a country’s comprehensive national strength most typically and gradually reconstruct the new pattern of global competitiveness, it is intelligent manufacturing. The second Made in China 2025 (Shenzhen) Summit Forum themed by 'Smart Transformation of Global Manufacturing' was convened as scheduled on 8th and 9th April.

A PXI FlexRIO architecture that integrates mezzanine I/O modules with Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGAs has been released by National Instruments (NI). The first wave of products based on this new architecture includes two high-resolution PXI FlexRIO Digitisers, three dedicated PXI FlexRIO Coprocessor Modules and a module development kit that helps with custom front-end development.

The Data Management Software Suite has been released by National Instruments (NI). This enterprise software solution offers a complete workflow to standardise measurement data across teams, mine that data for useful information, transform the data through automated analysis and deliver reports with valuable insight.

Tired of the countless articles talking about the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)? Surely all of the pundits, industry leading companies, and technology providers excited to share their perspective on the growing impact of the IIoT have exhausted the topic. By Jeffrey Phillips, Section Manager - Software, NI

At European Microwave Week NI unveiled the Vehicle Radar Test System (VRTS). Engineers can use the VRTS to test 76–81GHz radar technology from the R&D lab through high-volume production test and from individual radar sensors to integrated advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

Several key product launches and a number of technical presentations will be featured by National Instruments at European Microwave Week in Nuremberg (October 8-12). The new products will target the autonomous radar & ADAS testing sectors. Key themes will include The Rise of 5G as 5G continues to capture headlines.

National Instruments is hosting NIDays Conference and Exhibition at Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher on Tuesday November 28, 2017. At NIDays, scientists and engineers will learn about the latest technology to accelerate productivity for software defined systems in test, measurement and control, in a full day of interactive, technical and networking sessions from industry leaders and NI experts.