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Issue at a Glance
Company and Product News
NI MXI-Express Delivers PCI Express Control of PXI
NI Offers Analog Devices' ADIsimADC Plug-In for SignalExpress
NI Releases the LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit
New NI Toolkit Delivers Measurement and Calibration for ECUs
New Compact FieldPoint Module Ideal for Higher Currents, Industrial Switching

Development Resources
Introduction to PCI Express
Get an Overview of USB
Learn Which Bus Is Best for Your Data Acquisition Application
Check Out USB Frequently Asked Questions
Programming Data Acquisition for Linux with NI-DAQmx Base

Events
LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA Technical Web Event Series
Get Strategies for NI LabVIEW Data Storage and Retrieval

Support
Run an NI LabVIEW Executable Using a Different LabVIEW Version
Discover the DMA Channel-Count Capabilities of M Series DAQ Devices
Learn How to Correctly Install an NI GPIB-ENET/100 Controller
Understand NI LabVIEW and C++ Pointers with Peer Advice
Effectively Terminate Failures in Your Test Sequence



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Analog Devices, NI Streamline Embedded Development with LabVIEW
Analog Devices Inc. and National Instruments announce availability for the public beta version of the NI LabVIEW Embedded Module for ADI Blackfin Processors, which provides design engineers early access to a seamless, graphical dataflow development paradigm to directly target Blackfin Processors.
Learn more.
PCI Express Fuels Virtual Instrumentation
High-speed PC bus technology provides the bandwidth needed for high-performance virtual instrumentation. The wide availability, performance, and low cost of PCI Express silicon make it ideal for test and measurement applications, and virtual instrumentation is taking advantage of the huge improvements in bandwidth and scalability while preserving compatibility with existing software.
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Company and Product News
NI MXI-Express Delivers PCI Express Control of PXI
Engineers now can use National Instruments MXI-Express kits for PCI Express control of PXI and CompactPCI systems. PCI Express, an evolution of the PCI bus, is the next-generation PC I/O bus offered as a standard option on most new PCs.
Learn more.

NI Offers Analog Devices' ADIsimADC Plug-In for SignalExpress
National Instruments now integrates Analog Devices' ADIsimADC analog-to-digital converter (ADC) modeling software with NI SignalExpress to provide engineers with a virtual benchtop for device simulation and evaluation. Engineers now can take advantage of a seamless transition between simulating and physically evaluating a component signal chain to verify real-world performance against simulation results.
Learn more.

NI Releases the LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit
National Instruments announces the NI LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit Version 7.5, a suite of easy-to-use, palette-based tools; example programs; and utilities that extends the LabVIEW graphical development environment with cutting-edge measurement-oriented signal processing and analysis.
Learn more.

New NI Toolkit Delivers Measurement and Calibration for ECUs
National Instruments released the ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit that extends the National Instruments LabVIEW, NI LabWindows/CVI, and Microsoft C/C++ development environments to support measurement and calibration applications for electronic control unit (ECU) design and validation.
Learn more.

New Compact FieldPoint Module Ideal for Higher Currents, Industrial Switching
National Instruments announces a Compact FieldPoint module that addresses the needs of engineers working in industrial control applications involving high-level currents and requiring industrial switching. The new National Instruments cFP-RLY-425 relay module delivers up to 5 A of switching and is especially useful for industrial environments using high-current actuators and electromechanical devices.
Learn more.


Development Resources

Introduction to PCI Express
A recently introduced bus technology called PCI Express addresses the growing appetite for bandwidth. Originally designed to enable high-speed audio and video streaming, PCI Express also improves the data rate from measurement devices to PC memory by up to 30 times versus the traditional PCI bus.
Read this white paper.

Get an Overview of USB
Check out this white paper to learn more about the connection between USB, the PC, and measurement and automation, and how you can use USB in your measurement and automation system.
Learn more.

Learn Which Bus Is Best for Your Data Acquisition Application
Review some popular buses available for data acquisition systems, including PCI, PCI Express, PXI, USB, FireWire, PCMCIA, and Ethernet, and learn how emerging bus technologies may affect your measurements.
Read more.

Check Out USB Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to frequently asked questions about USB such as, "For what applications are USB DAQ devices most useful?" and "Can I use smart TEDS sensors with NI USB data acquisition devices?".
Read more.

Programming Data Acquisition for Linux with NI-DAQmx Base
Take this technical tutorial to learn how to use NI data acquisition on Linux with NI-DAQmx Base driver software. Explore the low-level architecture of the new driver as well as installation and support, and even see a step-by-step LabVIEW example.
Take this tutorial.


Events

LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA Technical Web Event Series
Unlock the power behind the LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA modules. Attend these Web events to see demonstrations of advanced LabVIEW functions that help you implement deterministic, real-time operation; custom FPGA configuration; and advanced timing.
View these Web events.

Get Strategies for NI LabVIEW Data Storage and Retrieval
During this Web event, learn the benefits of using LabVIEW data storage VIs for documenting and mining your test data, and discover hidden features available for data mining that help you find and report your data faster.
View this Web event.


Support

Run an NI LabVIEW Executable Using a Different LabVIEW Version
If you recently upgraded your NI LabVIEW software but want to run a previously created LabVIEW Executable from an older version, read about how to simply install the correct Run-Time Engine to avoid rebuilding the executable in the current LabVIEW version.
Learn more.

Discover the DMA Channel-Count Capabilities of M Series DAQ Devices
Visit the NI KnowledgeBase to learn more about each of the six fully independent DMA controllers on your NI M Series data acquisition device for high-performance data block transfers.
Read more.

Learn How to Correctly Install an NI GPIB-ENET/100 Controller
Take advantage of network connectivity in instrument control applications by correctly installing your NI GPIB-ENET/100 Ethernet-to-GPIB controller and NI-488.2 driver software. Read about how to install the correct driver version and review the five steps to make sure your "Add New GBIP Hardware" wizard recognizes your controller.
Read more.

Understand NI LabVIEW and C++ Pointers with Peer Advice
See what one engineer has to say about writing an NI LabVIEW interface to a .NET/C++ application and how he uses other engineers' advice to manage his C++ "System.void*" pointer.
Go to the discussion forum.

Effectively Terminate Failures in Your Test Sequence
Learn how to terminate an NI TestStand test sequence without stopping a whole test step at the NI discussion forum. Find out what fellow engineers say about best termination practices and review example coding recommendations.
Go to the discussion forum.



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