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Company and Product News
Reduce Development Time for Hardware-in-the-Loop Systems
Intelligent DAQ Devices Feature Onboard Processing
New Features in LabVIEW 8 Save Time, Enhance Functionality
Sanmina Develops Tester for Blood Glucose Levels with NI Products

Development Resources
Tutorial: Using the Instrument Driver Finder in LabVIEW 8
Optimize Your Automation with Distributed Intelligence
Check Out New Online Demonstrations Portal
Tutorial: Synchronization with NI LabVIEW and NI-DAQmx
Understanding Instrument Specifications

Events
RF and Wireless Communications Summit Online
Explore LabVIEW 8 at an NI Technical Symposium and NIDays
Webcast: Accelerate Machine Design
LabVIEW 8 Live Coming to Your Area
Webcast: Advanced Timing and Synchronization Architectures in PXI Systems

Support
View the Top LabVIEW Solutions, Troubleshooting, and Downloads
Learn How to Install and Use a Data Acquisition Device
Connecting an NI Ethernet-Configurable Device to a Wi-Fi Enabled Laptop
What's New in NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394
Example Code: Programming a DSA with NI-DAQ



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Microsoft Selects NI LabVIEW, PXI to Test Xbox 360 Controllers
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Meet Five Test Challenges with LabVIEW 8
National Instruments LabVIEW 8 tackles issues such as managing code, incorporating work from multiple developers, and certifying standard coding practices with a suite of new features targeted at test applications.
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Remove the Guesswork in Electronic Design with Virtual Instrumentation
With increasingly complex designs and shorter development cycles, today's engineers must remove the guesswork from their electronic designs. By applying virtual instrumentation and integrating measurements throughout the design flow, you can not only reduce development time but also improve product quality.
Learn more.
Company and Product News
Reduce Development Time for Hardware-in-the-Loop Systems
The new NI LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit 3.0 gives you a seamless link between the LabVIEW graphical development environment and The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink® software. You now can reduce development time for hardware-in-the-loop systems with new, configuration-based deployment to CAN and FPGA I/O; run-time parameter selection; and thread scheduling for multirate models.
Learn more.

Intelligent DAQ Devices Feature Onboard Processing
NI recently released seven new PCI/PXI R Series devices and five new NI CompactRIO I/O modules for embedded digital signal processing, custom protocol development, and high-speed control. With these devices, you can create your own data acquisition and control circuitry by programming FPGA-based hardware with LabVIEW and the LabVIEW FPGA Module.
Learn more.

New Features in LabVIEW 8 Save Time, Enhance Functionality
Read about new LabVIEW technologies, timesaving features, and enhancements to existing functionality, including commenting out LabVIEW code, creating more customized user interfaces, accessing properties and methods with the class browser, and deploying applications.
Learn more.

Sanmina Develops Tester for Blood Glucose Levels with NI Products
Sanmina-SCI selected NI PXI modular instruments and test management software to develop an FDA-approved production tester for testing and calibrating medical devices that measure blood glucose levels.
Learn more.


Development Resources

Tutorial: Using the Instrument Driver Finder in LabVIEW 8
See how the new Instrument Driver Finder automatically detects instruments in your system, downloads the driver from the Internet, and installs it in your palettes without ever leaving the LabVIEW environment.
Take this tutorial.

Optimize Your Automation with Distributed Intelligence
LabVIEW has emerged as the development environment of choice when it comes to programming intelligent nodes to optimize automation. NI LabVIEW 8 builds on the open architecture and I/O support of the LabVIEW graphical development platform and adds distributed intelligence technology to streamline building and managing large automation systems.
Learn more.

Check Out New Online Demonstrations Portal
View quick overviews of the main features and capabilities of NI modular instruments and their many applications. This new site also features Webcasts and other related multimedia content specific to NI modular instruments.
View these demos.

Tutorial: Synchronization with NI LabVIEW and NI-DAQmx
Learn how to synchronize your measurements using NI data acquisition hardware and software. From the basics of setup to a walk-through of a LabVIEW synchronization example, this brief tutorial shows you how to synchronize two signals on a single device or signals on multiple devices.
Take this tutorial.

Understanding Instrument Specifications
Traditionally, data acquisition boards and stand-alone instruments have been specified by using either different terminology or similar terminology with different meanings. This application note provides clear definitions for specification parameters such as NMRR, CMRR, and ECMRR (to name a few) and shows how these specifications directly influence your measurements.
Learn more.


Events

RF and Wireless Communications Summit Online
Learn from industry and research experts in the field about the latest RF and wireless communications advances and how they are facilitating the design, development, and test of these types of products in a rapidly changing market.
Learn more.

Explore LabVIEW 8 at an NI Technical Symposium and NIDays
At NI Technical Symposiums and NIDays, NI product developers and experts lead educational tracks - including hands-on sessions and demonstrations of leading technologies, emerging industry trends, and innovative approaches to technical challenges - for new and advanced users.
Register online.

Webcast: Accelerate Machine Design
Learn how to simulate the integrated mechanical and motion controller design in software before moving to the prototype stage. Integration and cosimulation between mechanical design and simulation packages such as SolidWorks/COSMOSMotion and controller development environments like LabVIEW/NI SoftMotion significantly reduce the development time and cost to optimize a prototype for production.
View this Webcast.

LabVIEW 8 Live Coming to Your Area
Be among the first to see the latest version of the industry-standard LabVIEW graphical development tool for design, control, and test. At LabVIEW 8 Live, explore interactive, application-specific development tools and libraries; interact with hundreds of built-in functions for I/O, control, analysis, and data presentation; and more.
Register online.

Webcast: Advanced Timing and Synchronization Architectures in PXI Systems
Engineers at National Instruments, in conjunction with the PXI Systems Alliance, will discuss advanced timing and synchronization concepts during this Webcast. Learn how you can develop sophisticated, high performance timing and synchronization solutions in PXI.
View this Webcast.


Support

View the Top LabVIEW Solutions, Troubleshooting, and Downloads
Find answers to commonly asked questions about LabVIEW, request support, and access LabVIEW materials at this portal site.
Learn more.

Learn How to Install and Use a Data Acquisition Device
This set of short videos was designed to give you an out-of-the-box experience with NI data acquisition products. Each video walks you through the steps of installing, configuring, and programming a data acquisition device on the most popular bus options, including PCI, PCI Express, PXI, and USB.
Learn more.

Connecting an NI Ethernet-Configurable Device to a Wi-Fi Enabled Laptop
Learn how to access hardware such as FieldPoint or PXI controllers with your Wi-Fi enabled laptop.
Learn more.

What's New in NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394
Read up on the latest features and fixes in NI-IMAQ, such as added support for the PCI-8254R.
Learn more.

Example Code: Programming a DSA with NI-DAQ
This example shows how to program a DSA device with the NI-DAQ text API in Microsoft Visual Basic. The program includes a basic user interface.
Download this example.



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