National Instruments has announced the release of the NI TPC-2012. The new 12in touch panel computer works with the National Instruments LabVIEW 8.20 Touch Panel Module, giving control and design engineers another option for deploying the LabVIEW graphical development environment on Windows CE HMI devices for machine control, embedded control and distributed data acquisition systems.

National Instruments has announced the release of its first USB modules for high-speed and low-speed/fault-tolerant Controller Area Network (CAN) and Local Interconnect Network (LIN) monitoring, logging and testing, combining the quality and performance of NI CAN software and hardware with the benefits of Hi-Speed USB. With a low price point and a synchronisation option, engineers now have an easy, cost-effective and portable solution for connect...

National Instruments has announced two new high-performance M Series multifunction data acquisition (DAQ) devices for USB. With the new NI USB-6221 and USB-6229 DAQ devices, which provide up to 32 analogue inputs with a 250 kS/s single-channel sampling rate, NI has extended its USB DAQ offering to 40 devices. The complete NI USB offering now includes low-cost devices starting at £65, or €95, high-speed devices featuring 1 MS/s sampling speeds ...

National Instruments expands its line of digital multimeters (DMMs) with new low-cost 6½-digit DMMs for PCI Express and PCI. The NI PCIe-4065 DMM, the first-ever DMM available on the PCI Express bus, and the PCI-4065 DMM offer measurements of DC or AC voltage/current; 2- and 4-wire resistance; and diode test ideal for educational laboratories, cost-conscious test and measurement facilities and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who embed DC...

National Instruments and QNX Software Systems have teamed up to extend the LabVIEW graphical dataflow environment to the QNX® Neutrino® real-time operating system (RTOS). Engineers can now use the NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module with the QNX Neutrino RTOS to add comprehensive support for multicore processors and target any supported hardware platform for QNX Neutrino.

During October, National Instruments UK & Ireland hosted NIDays 2006, its annual professional development conference and exhibition for engineers and scientists, in association with the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology – Europe’s largest professional engineering society), at Savoy Place, their prestigious central London headquarters.

National Instruments, a global leader in graphical system design, has announced that NI LabVIEW, the graphical design platform for test, control and embedded system development, as well as other NI application software and device drivers will be compatible with Windows Vista.

National Instruments has announced the release of NI Measurement Studio 8.1, a comprehensive suite of class libraries and user interface controls for test, measurement and automation applications built using Microsoft Visual Studio. Measurement Studio 8.1 simplifies and accelerates remote monitoring and control with new network variables that help engineers communicate between Microsoft Windows or Web-based applications and remote test machines. ...

National Instruments has announced the release of NI DIAdem 10.1, the latest version of the interactive software for inspecting, analysing and reporting test data. DIAdem 10.1 delivers new enhancements that extend the platform’s data mining and data management functionality. National Instruments also introduced NI DataFinder Server Edition, a new software solution that works with DIAdem 10.1 to make it easy for engineers to share and analyse th...

National Instruments has announced NI LabWindows/CVI 8.1, the latest version of the proven ANSI C integrated development environment for test, measurement and control applications. LabWindows/CVI 8.1 builds on nearly 20 years of reliability and innovation and delivers new technology that gives engineers a simplified interface for communicating between local or distributed LabWindows/CVI applications as well as a single toolchain to easily control...

Engineers and scientists requiring connectivity to in-vehicle communication buses and sensors along with wireless communication now have more options for acquisition, design and control applications. Industry leaders such as AVIAOK International Company, Drivven and Science & Engineering Applications Datentechnik GmbH (S.E.A.) have developed custom modules for the National Instruments CompactRIO platform, adding a wide variety of functionality to...

National Instruments has announced what it says is the industry’s first high-speed digital I/O instruments for PCI Express to deliver up to 200 MB/s dedicated throughput per direction to and from the host processor. The NI PCIe-6536 25 MHz and NI PCIe-6537 50 MHz low-cost digital I/O boards build on the throughput of the PCI Express interface to acquire and generate large digital patterns that are otherwise impossible to sustain. Using this hig...

National Instruments has announced the latest version of the NI LabVIEW Digital Filter Design Toolkit, a comprehensive collection of tools for designing and implementing digital filters. As a part of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform, the Digital Filter Design Toolkit delivers features – including new text-based MathScript functions for advanced filter design, new support for multirate filter design and implementation and enhanced fi...

Airbus has selected National Instruments DIAdem data analysis and report generation software as its Europe-wide standard tool for processing wind-tunnel test data, including the effects of specific thermal and aerodynamic parameters on airliners. With NI DIAdem, Airbus test engineers can automate time-consuming, repetitive analysis procedures and streamline the data reporting process to reduce analysis time and make important engineering decision...

National Instruments has announced pioneer programs for two new devices based on the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module, giving engineers and researchers early access to technology for digital and communications system design. Engineers can now use LabVIEW FPGA to write custom software for each device’s FPGA to prototype and test emerging standards or create custom protocols. With FPGA technology, engineers can repeatedly reconfigure hardware performance t...

National Instruments has announced the release of the new NI cRIO-9012 high-performance, real-time controller in collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River. The controller is based on Freescale’s MPC5200 processor built on Power Architecture technology and Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) to deliver fast performance while maintaining the ruggedness, reliability and low cost of the NI CompactRIO platform.

National Instruments has announced that it has expanded its digital camera support with the release of three new PCI Express-based frame grabbers. With the new NI PCIe-8255R, NI PCIe-8231 and NI PCIe-1427 frame grabbers, National Instruments now offers support for every major digital camera bus, including IEEE 1394b, Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) Vision and Camera Link. The company is the only vision component provider to offer PCI Express hardware for...

National Instruments has announced LabVIEW drivers for wireless sensor networks, giving engineers and scientists working with these devices the ability to fully integrate their ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4 or proprietary wireless sensors into the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical development environment. The free driver software works with sensors from three wireless-sensing leaders – Accsense, Accutech and Crossbow Technology – and includes co...

National Instruments has announced LabVIEW drivers for wireless sensor networks, giving engineers and scientists working with these devices the ability to fully integrate their ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4 or proprietary wireless sensors into the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical development environment. The free driver software works with sensors from three wireless-sensing leaders – Accsense, Accutech and Crossbow Technology – and includes co...

National Instruments today reported record revenue in Q3 2006 of $164 million, a 16 percent increase over Q3 2005. Geographically, the growth of revenue in U.S. dollar terms for Q3 2006 compared to Q3 2005 was as follows: up 11 percent in the Americas, up 14 percent in Europe and up 30 percent in Asia, equaling overall growth of 16 percent. In local currency terms, revenue was up 10 percent in Europe and up 28 percent in Asia, for an overall loca...