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Top Stories January 24, 2006
Issue at a Glance
Company and Product News
Renault Automotive Uses NI DIAdem for Report Generation, Statistical Analysis
See What You Missed at the RF and Wireless Communications Summit
FPGAs Improve Throughput in Communications
NI LabVIEW 8 Wins Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award
NI LabVIEW and PXI Optimize Plywood Sorting Process

Development Resources
Ten Things to Consider When Choosing Vision Software
New Tools for Creating LabVIEW Instrument Drivers
Develop a Wireless Measurement System
Introduction to SCXI Data Acquisition System Installation and Programming
Tutorial: Techniques for Developing Extended Duration Tests

Events
Webcast: End-to-End Design, Measurement, and Analysis
Webcast: Creating a Single-Box Real-Time and Windows Solution
DIAdem Videos and Webcasts on-Demand
Webcast: New Considerations for Vibration Monitoring
Webcast: Audio Fundamentals 101: Analog Audio Test and Measurement

Support
USB Data Acquisition Product Selection Guide
Example Code: Controlling an Individual Relay in C# .NET
Example Code: TDM Add-In for Microsoft Excel
Example Code: Saving and Loading Front Panel Control Configurations
Example Code: Alleyway Game in LabVIEW



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Accelerating Embedded System Design
To help design teams get products to market more quickly and reliably, virtual instrumentation technology is evolving to provide a comprehensive set of tools for embedded system design. The NI graphical system design platform combines LabVIEW programming with commercial off-the-shelf hardware to help you design, prototype, and deploy systems more quickly and reliably.
Learn more.
DIAdem 10.0 DataFinder Revolutionizes Test Data Search
With features for loading extremely large data sets and creating professional reports in a WYSIWYG environment, National Instruments DIAdem has helped many companies save valuable time while improving how engineers communicate with one another. With new NI DIAdem DataFinder technology, DIAdem directly meets major data challenges that have plagued test departments.
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Company and Product News
Renault Automotive Uses NI DIAdem for Report Generation, Statistical Analysis
See how Renault Automotive developed a Smart Report application using NI DIAdem technical data management software to query an Oracle database, dynamically create and handle graphs, charts, and tables, and manage complex SQL queries.
Learn more.

See What You Missed at the RF and Wireless Communications Summit
You now can download presentations from the RF and Wireless Communications Summit. Learn from industry and research experts in the field about the latest RF and wireless communications advances, and explore topics such as RFID, wireless sensors, software-defined radio; satellite radio; and multiple input, multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.
Download these presentations.

FPGAs Improve Throughput in Communications
A signal generator with onboard signal processing (OSP) uses a processing element such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to move the burden of computing communications waveforms from the host computer's processor to the hardware module. By efficiently creating and processing communications waveforms in hardware, OSP significantly extends waveform playback time and even can save you valuable time by adjusting several output waveform characteristics during generation.
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NI LabVIEW 8 Wins Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award
Control Engineering magazine awarded LabVIEW 8 software an Editors' Choice Award, calling the graphical development platform one of the most significant innovations of 2005. LabVIEW 8 delivers distributed intelligence, a powerful suite of new capabilities for you to easily design, distribute, and synchronize devices and systems.
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NI LabVIEW and PXI Optimize Plywood Sorting Process
When LightWave Computing needed to sort green veneer plywood panels according to moisture content on a high-speed conveyor line, they created a high-performance image acquisition and analysis system based on LabVIEW software and PXI hardware. This system provided both the performance and ease of use lacking in other solutions.
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Development Resources

Ten Things to Consider When Choosing Vision Software
Explore the main factors you should consider when choosing vision software, including camera choice, hardware scalability, software ease-of-use, and more.
Learn more.

New Tools for Creating LabVIEW Instrument Drivers
In this technical tutorial, learn how new LabVIEW 8 tools can save more than a week of development time in creating instrument drivers. Technologies covered include the Instrument Driver Wizard for rapid driver development and the Instrument Driver VI Creator with its ability to automatically generate instrument control source code.
View this tutorial.

Develop a Wireless Measurement System
Wireless communication offers many benefits for measurement applications, including lower wiring costs, simple data transfer, and remote monitoring capabilities. Learn the many ways to take advantage of this technology using National Instruments measurement hardware and LabVIEW.
Learn more.

Introduction to SCXI Data Acquisition System Installation and Programming
Learn how to install, configure, and program an SCXI device in five minutes with this introductory video.
Learn more.

Tutorial: Techniques for Developing Extended Duration Tests
See how you can improve the design and implementation of extended duration tests, and discover the advantages of real-time operating systems that make them ideal for autonomous tests.
View this tutorial.


Events

Webcast: End-to-End Design, Measurement, and Analysis
Learn about enhanced LabVIEW and Mathcad integration, which creates an environment that helps you more efficiently, accurately, and intelligently execute product development.
View this Webcast.

Webcast: Creating a Single-Box Real-Time and Windows Solution
Learn how to use LabVIEW Real-Time for RTX to add a deterministic component to a Windows application. Discover how you can run both user interface and real-time tasks on a single PC to meet control and other time-critical application challenges.
View this Webcast.

DIAdem Videos and Webcasts on-Demand
These multimedia presentations show you how DIAdem can help significantly reduce your analysis and reporting times while increasing the visibility you have to your data assets.
View these presentations.

Webcast: New Considerations for Vibration Monitoring
Off-the-shelf computing technologies have greatly improved the acquisition and analysis of machinery vibration. Learn how you can easily and cost-effectively connect, acquire, analyze, and present machinery vibration.
View this Webcast.

Webcast: Audio Fundamentals 101: Analog Audio Test and Measurement
This presentation covers audio test terminology and provides explanations as well as equipment demonstrations and techniques for audio measurements. Topics include distortion, phase, linearity, swept-sine analysis, and other features available in the LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit.
View this Webcast.


Support

USB Data Acquisition Product Selection Guide
Find the correct USB data acquisition device for your measurement application in three simple steps.
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Example Code: Controlling an Individual Relay in C# .NET
This example demonstrates how to open and close an individual relay on a switch using C# in Visual Studio .NET.
Download this example.

Example Code: TDM Add-In for Microsoft Excel
Obtain an add-in that helps Microsoft Excel read technical data management (TDM) files.
Download this example.

Example Code: Saving and Loading Front Panel Control Configurations
You can use this VI to save and load front panel control values and then recall the values programmatically. Storing and recalling front panel control values without having to set them as default values is useful if you want to run multiple VIs that have different front panel values.
Download this example.

Example Code: Alleyway Game in LabVIEW
This example includes a simple version of a game for which the player uses a paddle to bounce a ball against a set of bricks. It demonstrates advanced graphical programming in picture controls, advanced use of structures and arrays, programmatically generated events, and user input using the keyboard as well as a number of basic concepts.
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