PROVEN ANSI C DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT NOW OFFERS NEW REAL-TIME INTEGRATION FOR TEST

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PROVEN ANSI C DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT NOW OFFERS NEW REAL-TIME INTEGRATION FOR TEST
09 November 2005 - National Instruments Corporation (UK)

National Instruments today announced NI LabWindows/CVI Version 8.0, the proven ANSI C development environment for test and automation. This latest version continues to build upon the software's 17-year history of continued innovation and backward compatibility with faster code execution and deployment in addition to better real-time integration that extends LabWindows/CVI to deterministic and reliable test applications.

Engineers can speed their test applications with optimizing compiler support in LabWindows/CVI 8.0. The software now provides configuration templates for Intel, Microsoft and Borland optimizing compilers to produce faster running code, significantly increasing the throughput of automated test applications.
"NI LabWindows/CVI helps protect me from test system obsolescence by consistently maintaining backward compatibility," said Dave Dunham, senior ATE systems engineer at MTI. "Using LabWindows/CVI 8.0, I not only can continue to reuse C code that I created 11 years ago, but the code now executes faster with the new optimizing compiler support. National Instruments commitment to backward compatibility with LabWindows/CVI makes it a leader for military/aerospace test development."

Also, engineers can deploy all their test system software from their development machines to production machines in one distribution package and installer. With this improved system-deployment feature, engineers in manufacturing test quickly can deploy their LabWindows/CVI applications as well as their dependencies, including hardware drivers such as NI-DAQmx, to the factory floor in minutes.

LabWindows/CVI enhances its real-time functionality with new deployment directly to National Instruments LabVIEW Real-Time targets such as PXI controllers. With this functionality, engineers can run their LabWindows/CVI code deterministically for a range of new test applications that require reliability such as environmental test.

"National Instruments continues its investment in the proven LabWindows/CVI platform for test," said Tim Dehne, NI senior vice president of R&D. "With LabWindows/CVI 8.0, C developers can access new functionality for deploying their code directly to deterministic hardware targets. This new capability gives them the flexibility to broaden LabWindows/CVI use in their applications."

NI offers essential technologies for test, which combine high-performance hardware, flexible software and innovative timing and synchronization technology for test and design applications. LabWindows/CVI 8.0 seamlessly integrates with a wide variety of I/O, including the latest NI hardware such as the PXI-5114 250 MS/s digitizer and the PCI-1588, the industry's first IEEE 1588 PCI interface for distributed synchronization over Ethernet. In addition, LabWindows/CVI now includes .NET support, giving C programmers the opportunity to take advantage of rich database and Web service connectivity.

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About: National Instruments Corporation (UK)
National Instruments 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. Utilising 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 five years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

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