NI Week: System design software speeds code writing

4th August 2015

NI-Emerson

Mick Elliott

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Faster development time and more debugging tools feature in the LabVIEW 2015 system design software announced by National Instruments at its annual NIWeek exhibition and conference in Austin, Texas. The aim, as ever, is to help standardise the way LabVIEW users interact with almost any hardware through the reuse of the same code and engineering processes across systems, saving time and money as technology advances, requirements evolve, and time-to-market pressure increases.

The software is used across a variety of industries, and NI has added support to a number of hardware platforms including Quad Core Performance CompactRIO and CompactDAQ Controllers, 14-slot CompactDAQ USB 3.0 chassis, Single-Board RIO Controllers, Controller for FlexRIO, 8-core PXI Controller and High Voltage System SMU.

In addition three application suites include a year of unlimited training and certification benefits, giving access to software and training resources to build better systems faster.

Helping engineers improved productivity is aided by a collection of features designed to help developers open, write, debug, and deploy code faster. Engineers will be able to open large libraries up to 8X faster and eliminate prompts to locate missing module subVIs, while a new code debug tool enables examination of arrays and strings in auto-scaling probe watch windows and document findings with hyperlink and hashtag support in comments.

To deploy code faster users will be able to offload FPGA compilations to the LabVIEW FPGA Compile Cloud service included with Standard Service Program membership.

LabVIEW 2015 is extended by the LabVIEW Tools Network, which has been enriched by IP both from NI and third-party providers. The new Advanced Plotting Toolkit by Heliosphere Research furnishes developers with powerful programmatic plotting tools to create professional data visualisations.

The RTI DDS Toolkit by Real-Time Innovations enables IoT applications with scalable peer-to-peer data communication. Additionally, application-specific libraries for biomedical, GPU analysis, and Multicore Analysis and Sparse Matrix applications are now available free of charge.