NI LabVIEW 7.1 Wins Evaluation Engineering Software Product of the Year Award; Readers’ Choice Award Given to National Instruments LabVIEW for Second Consecutive Year
National Instruments announced that readers of Evaluation Engineering magazine named NI LabVIEW 7.1 the winner of its 2004 Readers’ Choice Award for software product of the year. LabVIEW 7.1, released in May 2004, extends Express technology to automated instrumentation and real-time applications with new Express VIs for NI modular instruments and NI-DAQmx, low-level execution timing for the LabVIEW 7.1 Real-Time Module and advanced debugging. This is the second consecutive year that Evaluation Engineering readers selected the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment for this award.
“We have a diverse group of readers using the many outstanding test and measurement products released this year,” said Paul Milo, editorial director of Evaluation Engineering. “National Instruments LabVIEW has won the software category two years in a row, which demonstrates its impact on our readers. LabVIEW 7.1 delivers many innovative features including new Express VIs for configuring sophisticated measurements and acquiring data quickly and easily.”
With the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, engineers and scientists can create flexible and scalable test, measurement and control applications rapidly and at minimal cost. LabVIEW 7.1 easily connects to more I/O, including NI modular instruments, Transducer Electronic Data Sheet-enabled sensors and dynamic signal acquisition devices. Engineers and scientists can use the software to quickly create professional applications with up to 200 percent faster math functions and new development tools. Also, the redesigned NI-DAQmx measurement services software in LabVIEW 7 increases performance of single-loop PID applications by 30 percent and simplifies hardware-timed loop implementation.
“Regardless of their hardware platforms, LabVIEW 7.1 simplifies development for all LabVIEW users,” said John Graff, NI vice president of marketing. “Not only does LabVIEW 7.1 feature new development tools, but it also introduces the most significant upgrade to the LabVIEW Real-Time Module ever, which includes the new Execution Trace Toolkit and timed loop as well as real-time support for desktop PCs.”
This year marks Evaluation Engineering’s 11th annual Readers’ Choice Awards competition, which recognizes products from areas such as ATE, communications test, data acquisition, EMC, environmental test, instrumentation and software. Evaluation Engineering delivers in-depth, technical articles on testing and evaluating both existing and next-generation electronic products and systems, and its audience includes professionals involved in test and evaluation, design, development, quality control and assurance, production and support. For more information, readers can visit www.evaluationengineering.com .
About LabVIEW
Since 1986, NI LabVIEW has redesigned measurement and automation with its unique graphical development methodology. Noted by the editorial community as premiere software in the electronics, industrial control and electronics design industries and recipient of 10 awards in 2004, LabVIEW delivers an intuitive and powerful way to acquire, analyze and present measurements at every stage of development, from prototyping to design to manufacturing test. LabVIEW is available on Windows, Macintosh, Sun Solaris and Linux operating systems.
About National Instruments
National Instruments ( www.ni.com ) is 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 the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,100 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. In 2003, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
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