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Embedded System Design

The NI graphical system design platform reduces development costs and shortens time to market with the ability to design, prototype, and deploy embedded systems with NI LabVIEW graphical software and modular off-the-shelf hardware. Whether designing autonomous vehicles, medical devices, industrial machines, renewable energy, and green engineering solutions or other custom devices, you can take advantage of the NI embedded platform to reduce the cost of your embedded design.

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NI Prototyping Tools

The flexibility of NI tools has proven to be efficient and cost-effective in getting a working embedded prototype built quickly and reducing time to market.

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Build versus Buy for Embedded Design

When designing an embedded system, more often than not, choosing which tools to use comes down to whether to build a custom solution or buy off-the-shelf tools. Learn the trade-offs between a custom design and NI graphical system design off-the-shelf tools.

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NI Embedded Software Evaluation Kit

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Featured Case Studies

Saving Development Cost on Medical Device Design

Low-Cost Device for Helping Premature Infants Learn to Oral Feed

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Embedded Power Monitoring

Embedded Monitoring and Control System Reduces Energy Consumption by 15 Percent

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Semiautonomous Vehicle Control

Building a Semiautonomous Vehicle Driven by the Visually Impaired

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Embedded Applications

Medical Device Design
With NI graphical system design tools, you can design and prototype medical devices faster than the competition.

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Robotics and Unmanned Vehicles
From autonomous vehicles to mobile systems, NI LabVIEW and CompactRIO provide a standard software and hardware development platform for designing your robotic system.

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Renewable Energy and Green Engineering Solutions
Engineers and scientists around the world are using the graphical system design platform to make a positive impact on the global ecosystem.

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The Graphical System Design Advantage

Design

Iterate on algorithm or model development with real-world stimulus

Prototype

Quickly implement your design on ready-to-run COTS hardware devices and validate functionality

Deploy

Target your application to the final hardware device and scale with production test