National Instruments Presentation: LabVIEW 8: Design
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Dave Wilson (International Marketing Director of National Instruments)
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Europe/Zurich
354-R-001-A (CERN)
354-R-001-A
CERN
Description
The trend in the industry is moving more towards platform based tool chains for system development driven by the constant pressure for cost savings. What is relevant for the industry is also offering significant advantages for large applications and system designs in the research domain. Long term scalability, maintainability and investment protection are very important aspects for large research facilities.
National Instruments vision for future application development strategies is based on the virtual instrument architecture a combination of modular off-the-shelf hardware with high-level software such as LabVIEW. Version 8 of this program will soon be released, together with many other related tools, and these are expected to have a considerable impact on the virtual instrumentation world. Dave Wilson will outline system design trends, such as platform-based tools, multiple processors architecture and programmable hardware, and the role of graphical system design in addressing these trends.
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 PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,600 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. NI products have been extensively used at CERN for the past 10 years.