National Instruments has announced NI LabVIEW SignalExpress, an extension of the popular LabVIEW graphical system design platform, for acquiring, analysing and presenting data without programming. LabVIEW SignalExpress is interactive measurement software that improves productivity with an intuitive drag-and-drop environment to manage measurements and signals from more than 400 stand-alone and modular instruments. LabVIEW SignalExpress also elimin...

National Instruments has extended the NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment to now target the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), which has been deployed in more than 350 million devices worldwide including the latest National Instruments CompactRIO controllers. The NI cRIO-9012 and cRIO-9014 controllers combine the productivity of LabVIEW Real-Time and the reliability of the VxWorks device software, making it easy for e...

National Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River are working together to help engineers simplify embedded design, including industrial control and monitoring, with the release of the latest high-performance, real-time controller for the NI CompactRIO platform. The National Instruments cRIO-9014 controller is based on the Freescale MPC5200 processor built on Power Architecture technology and the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating s...

National Instruments and Analog Devices have announced the release of the NI LabVIEW Embedded Module for ADI Blackfin Processors 2.0, an extension of the LabVIEW graphical development environment that directly targets ADI Blackfin processors. Since its introduction, the LabVIEW Embedded Module for Blackfin Processors has been adopted by engineers for the rapid development of sophisticated embedded systems ranging from cutting-edge medical device...

National Instruments UK and Ireland has announced the 2007 Oil and Gas Industry Symposium, a one-day complimentary seminar that takes place on Tuesday 15th May 2007 at The Hilton Aberdeen Treetops hotel. This Symposium is part of a series, presented by NI and partners, that reaches 13 major drilling and exploration cities across North America, South America and Europe.

Mindready has announced the latest software-defined radio toolkit release, the Universal Radio Tester (URT) Version 3.0. The URT is a highly flexible, compact and affordable solution used for generating analogue and digital radio frequency signals based on National Instruments' PXI hardware and NI LabVIEW and NI TestStand software.

National Instruments has announced PCI versions of two popular high-speed and high-density digitisers/oscilloscopes, extending the company’s high-speed PCI offering to 2 GS/s and low-cost PCI offering to £330 or €475 per channel. The National Instruments PCI-5152 general-purpose digitiser converts a desktop PC into a full-featured oscilloscope. It offers a 2 GS/s real-time sampling rate on one channel or a 1 GS/s real-time sampling rate on ...

Military and aerospace engineers can learn more about the latest developments in automated test and control design at the National Instruments Military and Aerospace Solutions Conference on Tuesday 22nd May 2007. Taking place at the System Engineering Innovation Centre, University of Loughborough, this free one-day conference and accompanying exhibition features technical demonstrations and case studies of the latest technologies for virtual and...

National Instruments has announced the availability of NI LabVIEW for The Infinity Project, a version of the LabVIEW graphical programming environment designed for learning and exploring exciting engineering topics in high school and early college science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) classes. Founded at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, The Infinity ProjectSM provides engineering curricula designed for today’s high school and...

National Instruments has announced the extension of its LabVIEW graphical system design platform with the release of LabVIEW SignalExpress, interactive measurement software which simplifies data logging, instrument control and academic instruction. Built on the basic measurement, analysis and reporting capabilities of NI LabVIEW graphical programming, LabVIEW SignalExpress delivers an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop experience for controlling hundreds...

National Instruments has announced that it has nearly tripled the number of I/O modules available for NI CompactDAQ, adding several new key measurements and capabilities to the USB-based modular data acquisition system. Additionally, every NI CompactDAQ chassis is shipped with the new National Instruments LabVIEW SignalExpress data-logging software, providing quick acquisition, analysis and presentation of data in an interactive, nonprogramming ...

Francis Griffiths, a National Instruments employee for the past eighteen years, is one of eight long term members of NI staff to be promoted to Vice President. After graduating with a B Eng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in Cardiff, Griffiths joined National Instruments UK & Ireland in 1989, shortly after the Branch opened, as an Applications Engineer on the NI Engineerin...

National Instruments has doubled its PXI RF switch offering for 50 and 75 ohm RF applications with the release of 11 new RF switches. The new modules include 4x1, terminated 4x1, dual 4x1 and 8x1 multiplexers as well as quad SPDT and dual-terminated SPDT general-purpose configurations. With these new products, engineers have more choices to optimise their RF switch networks around price performance and improved signal integrity.

Dr. James Truchard, CEO, President and Cofounder of National Instruments was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, in U.S.A. widely considered the highest honour given in the engineering profession. Truchard was recognised for “creating ‘virtual instrumentation,’ which enabled the rapid development of customised measurement systems in industry, academia and classrooms.” He is one of only 156 Texans to be elected in...

National Instruments today opened registrations for NIDays 2007, the company’s annual virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition. Once again, this industry event will be held in association with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and will take place on Thursday 25th October 2007 at Savoy Place, London, home of the IET.

National Instruments has announced the release of the NI LabWindows/CVI 8.1 Real-Time Module, an extension to the proven ANSI C development environment that makes it easy for engineers to create and deploy reliable and deterministic applications to dedicated real-time hardware such as PXI and desktop PCs. LabWindows/CVI Real-Time takes advantage of network variables to simplify the process of transferring data between real-time and Windows applic...

National Instruments has announced a family of PXI, PXI Express and PXI real-time embedded controllers based on the 2.16 GHz dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7400. The NI PXI-8106 and NI PXIe-8106 controllers deliver a performance improvement of more than 100 percent compared to systems running traditional single-core processors. With two cores, or computing engines, in one processor, the new PXI and PXI Express controllers can simultaneousl...

National Instruments has announced the latest version of the NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW, the revolutionary software that empowers machine builders and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to create customised motion controllers using software and deploy them for any NI hardware platform. OEMs and machine builders can use a range of pre-built motion functions and control algorithms to quickly create motion controllers based o...

National Instruments has reported record quarterly revenue in the fourth quarter of $181.5 million, a 14 percent increase over Q4 2005. Geographically, revenue in U.S. dollar terms for Q4 2006 compared to Q4 2005 was up 13 percent in the Americas, up 15 percent in Europe and up 13 percent in Asia, equaling overall growth of 14 percent. In local currency terms, revenue was up 12 percent in Europe and up 10 percent in Asia.

Taking place in 21 locations around UK & Ireland, National Instruments is staging three-hour hands-on seminars to learn how to design and build powerful measurement and control applications using National Instruments LabVIEW graphical programming and NI data acquisition devices.