NEWS RELEASE – NIWeek – Aug. 8, 2006 – National Instruments, a global leader in virtual instrumentation, today announced NI LabVIEW 8.20 (www.ni.com/labview), the 20th anniversary edition of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system development. The LabVIEW anniversary edition introduces powerful new features including general compatibility with The MathWorks, Inc. MATLAB® software, new FPGA-based custom hardware design wizards for building industrial controllers and updates to the NI Modulation Toolkit for LabVIEW so engineers can develop models to simulate communications systems and evaluate parameter and design decisions.
— LEARN about the new features in LabVIEW 8.20 by visiting www.ni.com/labview/upgrade
— TRY LabVIEW 8.20 or view demos and tutorials by visiting www.ni.com/trylabview
— BUY LabVIEW 8.20 by visiting www.ni.com/labview/how_to_buy or speak to a technical representative about product information and price quotes by calling (888) 484-4439
Open and Integrated Design Platform
LabVIEW 8.20 delivers an open design platform that embraces multiple design tools and uses powerful, custom measurement capabilities to streamline product development. With LabVIEW 8.20, engineers can:
— Use MathScript (www.ni.com/mathscript) to integrate m-file scripts they created using the MATLAB development environment
— Create custom data acquisition devices with the new LabVIEW FPGA Wizard
— Integrate third-party plant models from Dynasim and Plexim GmbH with the LabVIEW Simulation Module, a tool for designing and implementing control simulation models
Learn about LabVIEW for prototyping and embedded design by visiting www.ni.com/labview/embedded.
Single Software for Industrial Control, Measurement and Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs)
LabVIEW 8.20 enhances the industrial measurement capabilities of LabVIEW with new features designed for advanced analysis and control, improved distributed system management and new targets for HMIs. With the LabVIEW anniversary edition, engineers can:
— Add Windows CE-based HMIs to measurement and control systems with the LabVIEW Touch Panel Module
— Improve execution speeds of PID algorithms by up to14 times with the LabVIEW PID Control Toolkit and execution speeds for advanced control algorithms by up to nine times with the LabVIEW Control Design Toolkit
— Build FPGA-based industrial measurement and control systems with the LabVIEW FPGA Wizard
— Create more than 2,000 shared variables or tags at a time to access I/O with the LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control (DSC) Module
Learn more about LabVIEW for industrial measurement and control by visiting www.ni.com/labview/control.
Intuitive Tools for Advanced, RF and Communications Design and Test Applications
LabVIEW 8.20 extends the LabVIEW platform with advanced test tools, including ones for RF and communications design, simulation and test, which engineers can use to more intuitively design models and develop measurement applications. With LabVIEW 8.20, engineers can:
— Use orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) examples for Wi-Fi and 4G cellular applications with the NI Modulation Toolkit
— Prototype communications systems with the intermediate frequency reconfigurable I/O (IF-RIO) device
— Design and maintain large test systems with new object-oriented programming tools
— Create advanced user interfaces with OpenGL-based 3-D visualization
— Automatically generate interfaces for .NET Web services and DLLs with new wizards
Learn more about LabVIEW for automated test and measurement by visiting www.ni.com/labview/test.
LabVIEW 8.20 is available on Windows, Macintosh OS X and Linux® operating systems. The English language version of LabVIEW 8.20 launches in August 2006, and all other versions, with the exception of simplified Chinese, launch in September 2006. Learn about the new features in LabVIEW 8.20 by visiting www.ni.com/labview/upgrade.
About National Instruments
For 30 years, National Instruments (www.ni.com) has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation. 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.
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