NASA Tech Briefs Names NI LabVIEW 8 Software a 2005 Product of the Year
National Instruments today announced that readers of NASA Tech Briefs selected National Instruments LabVIEW 8 software as one of three Product of the Year Award winners. This award recognizes NI LabVIEW 8 as premier software for engineers and scientists and makes National Instruments the first four-time recipient of this prestigious award.
“Our annual Readers’ Choice Awards highlight products with exceptional technical merit and practical value to our readers,” said Linda Bell, NASA Tech Briefs editor in chief. “Our readers voted LabVIEW 8 as one of the top three products of 2005 due to the impact it has had on the design engineering community.”
LabVIEW 8, a major upgrade to the LabVIEW graphical development platform, uses the latest Express instrument control and data acquisition technology to improve the productivity of engineers and scientists in design, control and test. The new version introduced distributed intelligence – a powerful suite of new capabilities for engineers and scientists to easily design, distribute and synchronize intelligent devices and systems. With the simplified, scalable interface of LabVIEW 8, engineers now can use the same graphical platform for simple data transfer; deterministic real-time communication; and network synchronization with integrated alarms, events and data logging between remote intelligent devices and systems.
LabVIEW 8 also features the new LabVIEW Project for developing and managing large-scale applications with integrated source code control, graphical differencing, project libraries and target and build distribution management. This feature is a step-function improvement to manage systems graphically, to manage development with large teams, and to implement scalable large or distributed applications.
Each year, NASA Tech Briefs presents three Product of the Year awards. Readers vote on the awards from 12 nominated Products of the Month throughout the year.
About NASA Tech Briefs
NASA’s best new technologies with “down-to-Earth” commercial applications are reported first in NASA Tech Briefs magazine. This publication features a wealth of new product ideas and engineering solutions developed under NASA’s multibillion-dollar R&D budget. For more information, visit www.techbriefs.com.
About National Instruments
For 30 years, National Instruments (www.ni.com) has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, PCI Express, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,800 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
