National Instruments, a global leader in virtual instrumentation, today announced LabVIEW 8.20, the 20th anniversary edition of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system design development. NI LabVIEW 8.20 extends the popular LabVIEW graphical programming platform with communications design, simulation and test tools specifically tailored to the needs of telecom design and test engineers. LabVIEW 8.20 give...

National Instruments has released NI Motion Assistant 2.0, the latest version of the interactive software for prototyping single- and multi-axis motion control systems. Machine builders and OEMs can use the new NI Motion Assistant 2.0 to import motion profiles from CAD and drafting programs using the popular DXF file format.

Sony Electronics and National Instruments have announced that the Sony XCI-SX1 Smart Camera under the Microsoft® Windows XPe operating system is compatible with National Instruments NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) software. By combining the simplicity and reliability of the Sony Smart Camera with the ease of use of the NI Vision Builder AI machine vision software from National Instruments, engineers can configure, benchmark and d...

National Instruments today reported record revenue in Q2 2006 of $160 million, a 14 percent USD increase over Q2 2005 and an equivalent 16 percent increase in local currency. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) fully diluted earnings per share (EPS) for Q2 2006 was 21 cents with GAAP net income of $17 million, up 13 percent from Q2 2005. Non-GAAP fully diluted EPS was 25 cents with non-GAAP net income of $20.5 million, up 33 percent f...

National Instruments has released the ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2.0, extending the National Instruments LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI and Microsoft Visual C/C++ development environments to support measurement and calibration applications for designing and validating automotive electronic control units (ECUs).

National Instruments UK & Ireland today announced a series of Academic Conferences. NI LabVIEW in the Curriculum is a free, one-day academic conference for those currently teaching with National Instruments LabVIEW, or interested in how LabVIEW can improve the learning experience for students, and those who want to find out how LabVIEW is being used in research applications.

National Instruments has announced the NI PXI-5105 eight-channel digitiser, the lowest price-per-channel high-speed data acquisition product in its class, which offers a cost-effective alternative to systems that use multiplexed A/D converters or switches to increase channel count.

Dean Kamen, President of DEKA Research & Development Corporation and founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), will deliver the closing keynote address to more than 2,000 attendees at NIWeek, the world’s largest virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition, Aug. 8-10, in Austin, Texas. In his speech, “Inspiring Present and Future Scientists and Engineers to Innovate,” Kamen will discuss the role of s...

National Instruments announced the industry’s highest-voltage PXI switch module, which is capable of routing signals up to 600 V. The high-voltage multiplexer adds to the more than 80 existing switch configurations available in the PXI platform from NI. Engineers can use this new switch module with the flexibility of the PXI platform to build automated test systems with stringent voltage, current and bandwidth requirements using one compact, ru...

National Instruments has announced the release of several products that now comply with the NI Hazardous Substances Reduction initiative, furthering the company’s commitment to meeting high environmental standards. This NI initiative is a voluntary program modelled after the European Union Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which restricts the use of harmful substances such as lead, mercury and cadmium in n...

National Instruments has announced a new USB-based modular data acquisition system – NI CompactDAQ – a new platform ideal for sensor and electrical measurements on the benchtop, in the field and on the production line.

National Instruments is hosting the Military and Aerospace Solutions Conference at Twickenham Rugby Ground on Wednesday 19th July, 2006. This free one-day conference and accompanying exhibition features technical demonstrations and case studies of the latest technologies for automated test and control design for military and aerospace applications. The conference explores how virtual instrumentation delivers open, flexible frameworks, through pl...

LabVIEW 8 Express VIs Added to Teaching Platform for Point-and-Click Instrument Configuration

National Instruments UK & Ireland today announced that Kevin Snelling and Martin Saxon, both Directors of Product Technology Partners Ltd, a National Instruments Alliance Partner, have achieved LabWindows/CVI Certification status. Kevin and Martin are the second and third engineers in the UK & Ireland that have attained this qualification.

National Instruments has announced what is said to be the industry’s first dual-core PXI embedded controller with the 2.0 GHz Intel Core™ Duo processor T2500 for multitasking environments and multithreaded applications. The dual-core PXI controller improves the performance of multithreaded applications up to 100 percent versus single-core PXI controllers with the same processor clock rate.

National Instruments now offers more than 5,000 drivers through the NI Instrument Driver Network (www.ni.com/idnet), the industry’s largest source for instrument drivers. With support and connectivity for the latest instruments and communication buses, National Instruments LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI continue to provide engineers consistent, high-level programming interfaces for remotely controlling their stand-alone instruments.

National Instruments UK & Ireland has been named among the UK’s 50 Best Workplaces in the Financial Times 2006 Best Workplaces Special Report. Listed for the first time, NI was ranked 40th. NI employees identified the company’s fun and friendly work environment and ethical culture among the characteristics which make the company a great place to work.

National Instruments has announced the release of the LabVIEW 8 Student Edition Software Suite, a full-featured version of the graphical development platform that provides students a flexible, hands-on learning environment for designing, prototyping and deploying engineering and science concepts into real-world applications. The software suite, for the first time, includes a collection of powerful National Instruments LabVIEW add-ons for mathemat...

National Instruments looks to have extended its machine vision market leadership by announcing its adoption of the new Automated Imaging Association (AIA) standard for Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) Vision. A longtime leader in end-user vision systems, NI now adds support for GigE Vision cameras to its existing image acquisition software.

National Instruments has released its first M Series data acquisition (DAQ) devices for the USB bus. They are two new external DAQ devices that offer up to 32 analogue input channels and data acquisition rates of up to 1.25 MS/s.