NI EXECUTIVE DEFINES GRAPHICAL SYSTEM DESIGN AS A PRIMARY INITIATIVE OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION

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NI EXECUTIVE DEFINES GRAPHICAL SYSTEM DESIGN AS A PRIMARY INITIATIVE OF VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION
29 June 2005 - National Instruments Corporation (UK)

National Instruments Vice President of Product Marketing and Academic Relations Ray Almgren will deliver the opening keynote to an international audience of industry and academic experts at the second annual Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation Conference tomorrow in Brasov, Romania.

In his keynote address, "Graphical System Design, The Next Decade of Virtual Instrumentation," Almgren outlines the National Instruments roadmap for extending the virtual instrumentation platform into the design of embedded, real-time and distributed systems. Virtual instrumentation combines powerful software and modular hardware to create user-defined platforms for design, control and test. With graphical system design, engineers and scientists can broaden this concept to include embedded and control system design.

"The National Instruments virtual instrumentation platform has become a standard for instrumentation system design," Almgren said. "We now see virtual instrumentation extending to the system-level design of embedded, real-time and distributed systems. Through graphical system design, scientists and engineers in industry and academia can take advantage of a graphical approach to algorithm design, simulation, prototyping and deployment of custom designs on embedded systems without expertise in embedded programming."

In addition, Almgren will demonstrate several new NI products, including the LabVIEW DSP Module and the LabVIEW Embedded Development Module, as well as prototypes of LabVIEW running on embedded microprocessors. He also will preview a new Web-based LabVIEW utility designed to easily demonstrate science, mathematics and engineering concepts in online curriculum systems such as Rice University's Connexions (www.cnx.rice.edu).

Organized by the University of Brasov; Carinthia Tech Institute, Villach, Austria; and the University of Maribor, Slovenia, the Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation Conference provides a forum for discussing fundamentals, applications and experiences in remote engineering and virtual instrumentation. The symposium also discusses guidelines for education in university-level courses using virtual- and remote-controlled devices and remote laboratories. This is Almgren's second year to deliver the opening day keynote at the symposium.

Ray Almgren is an 18-year veteran of NI and an expert in graphical programming systems and virtual instrumentation. A leading authority on the challenges of and solutions for improving the science and engineering workforce, Almgren serves on numerous university, state and national advisory boards, including the Government University Industry Research Roundtable, ABET Industrial Advisory Board and the FIRST Executive Advisory Board. He frequently speaks on and leads discussions about STEM Workforce development as well as the latest trends in innovating science and engineering education.

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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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