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August 19, 2008
NI Announces Industry's Fastest PXI Embedded Controller and New PXI System Accessories
National Instruments announced the NI PXI-8108, the industry's fastest PXI embedded controller, and two new PXI system accessories, a 32 GB solid-state hard drive and the NI PXI-8250 system monitoring module.
August 7, 2008
NI Highlights Green Engineering, New Products at NIWeek
Executives from National Instruments discussed how NI products and technologies improve everyday life during the 14th annual NIWeek graphical system design conference and exhibition.
August 7, 2008
NI and LEGO Develop Robotics Platform for Elementary Students
National Instruments and LEGO Education continue their educational robotics collaboration with the new LEGO Education WeDo classroom robotics platform. Powered by NI LabVIEW graphical design software, LEGO Education WeDo Software is a drag-and-drop, icon-based environment that students ages 7 to 11 can use to easily program their own robotics inventions.
August 6, 2008
NI Introduces NI Single-Board RIO Platform
National Instruments announced new NI Single-Board RIO devices that offer engineers and scientists a low-cost, integrated hardware option for deploying embedded control and data acquisition applications.
August 5, 2008
NI Introduces Wi-Fi and Ethernet Data Acquisition Devices
National Instruments announced 10 new Wi-Fi and Ethernet data acquisition (DAQ) devices, extending the world-trusted NI measurement hardware and software platform to wireless remote monitoring applications.
August 5, 2008
NI Introduces 6.6 GHz PXI Express RF Instruments
National Instruments announced a new RF vector signal analyzer, RF vector signal generator and PXI Express 18-slot chassis that offer flexible RF measurements up to 10 times faster than traditional RF instrumentation.
August 4, 2008
NI LabVIEW 8.6 Meets Parallel Programming Challenge
National Instruments announced LabVIEW 8.6, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development.
July 28, 2008
NI Introduces 1 GHz Bandwidth PXI Digitizer
National Instruments announced a significant bandwidth increase in its digitizer offering with the introduction of the NI PXI-5154 digitizer/PC-based oscilloscope, expanding the family of more than 20 high-speed, high-resolution and high-channel-count products.
July 23, 2008
NI LabVIEW Monitors Structural Health
National Instruments announced the China Earthquake Administration (CEA), the leading governmental body managing the country's earthquake preparedness and disaster mitigation, selected a structural health monitoring (SHM) solution developed by National Instruments Alliance Partner CGM Engineering, Inc., based on the NI LabVIEW graphical system design platform and NI CompactRIO programmable automation controllers.
July 8, 2008
NI DIAdem 11.0 Expands Test Data Management
National Instruments announced the release of DIAdem 11.0, the latest version of the interactive software for managing, analyzing and reporting test data.
June 17, 2008
NI Introduces Dual Gigabit Ethernet Interface for PXI Express
National Instruments announced its first high-performance dual gigabit Ethernet interface for PXI Express.
June 24, 2008
John Medica Elected to NI Board of Directors
National Instruments announced that John Medica, former senior vice president for Dell and former senior director for Apple, was elected to the NI Board of Directors.
June 16, 2008
NI Introduces New LabVIEW Toolkit for GPS Receiver Testing
National Instruments announced the NI GPS Toolkit for LabVIEW, an extension of the graphical system design environment that expands the NI RF PXI platform to include multi-satellite GPS signal simulation.
June 10, 2008
NI Introduces High-Performance Compact FieldPoint Controllers
National Instruments announced the release of three new Compact FieldPoint controllers that deliver increased performance, higher processor speed and significantly improved Ethernet throughput.
June 9, 2008
NI Now Offers 6,000 Drivers for Instrument Control
National Instruments now offers more than 6,000 drivers through the NI Instrument Driver Network, the industry's largest source for instrument drivers.
June 3, 2008
Author Andrew Hargadon to Deliver NIWeek 2008 Keynote
National Instruments announced that Andrew Hargadon, the director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California, Davis, will deliver the closing keynote address at NIWeek 2008, the premier event for graphical system design scheduled for Aug. 5-7 in Austin, Texas.
May 28, 2008
NI Advances Medical Device Design with Technology and Training
National Instruments announced three initiatives to help support safe and efficient medical device development.
May 27, 2008
NI Measurement Studio 8.5 Accelerates Remote Monitoring
National Instruments announced Measurement Studio 8.5 to add test and measurement functionality to the latest Microsoft development environment with a complete set of .NET class libraries, tools and NI data acquisition driver support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
May 27, 2008
NI TestStand 4.1 Accelerates Parallel Test Performance
National Instruments today announced NI TestStand 4.1, the latest version of the company's test management software, which now helps engineers develop faster test systems with multicore processor support.
May 20, 2008
NI Introduces New Version of Prototyping Platform
National Instruments announced NI ELVIS II, the latest version of the design and prototyping platform that educators worldwide have adopted for hands-on, project-based learning.
May 12, 2008
NI Products Honored with Multiple Industry Awards
National Instruments LabVIEW, CompactRIO and PXI platforms have received eight awards and honorable mentions from leading industry trade publications.
May 6, 2008
NI Announces NIWeek 2008 Conference
National Instruments announced plans for NIWeek, the industry's premier event on graphical system design that attracts more than 3,000 of the world's brightest engineers, educators and scientists.
May 6, 2008
NI Introduces Graphical Differencing and User Interface Toolkit
National Instruments announced the NI Graphical Differencing and User Interface Toolkit, a software solution that helps engineers and scientists identify differences between models built using The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink(R) software.
May 5, 2008
NI Announces New USB Multifunction DAQ Devices
National Instruments announced the release of two new bus-powered M Series data acquisition (DAQ) devices for USB that deliver faster sampling rates and more digital I/O features than previously released bus-powered M Series devices for USB.
May 1, 2008
EE Times Names NI Small/Medium Company of the Year
EE Times awarded National Instruments its 2008 Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award for Small/Medium Company of the Year at a gala event held during TechInsight's Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley, the largest electronic systems design event in North America.
April 29, 2008
NI Integrates Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA into New I/O Devices
National Instruments announced the release of four new R Series I/O modules for the PXI platform that are equipped with high-performance Xilinx Virtex(R)-5 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
April 29, 2008
NI Announces Integrated PXI Monitor and Keyboard Accessory
National Instruments announced the NI PMA-1115 portable touch screen monitor with integrated keyboard that attaches to any NI eight-slot PXI or PXI Express chassis.
April 28, 2008
NI Hosts the Online Automated Test Summit 2008
National Instruments announced the fifth annual Automated Test Summit, an online event featuring technical sessions focused on identifying trends and overcoming challenges in automated test.
April 22, 2008
NI Software Adds Support for New Tektronix Oscilloscopes
National Instruments announced support for new Tektronix value line oscilloscopes in the latest version of LabVIEW SignalExpress Tektronix Edition, an interactive PC-based measurement software for quickly acquiring, analyzing and presenting data without programming.
April 21, 2008
NI Announces Two Low-Cost PXI Embedded Controllers
National Instruments announced two new low-cost embedded controllers - the PXI-8104 and PXI-8183 - that deliver exceptional performance for value-based test, measurement, and control applications.
April 17, 2008
FIRST Selects NI CompactRIO for Robot Control System
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit organization inspiring young people to be science and technology leaders, has selected the National Instruments CompactRIO embedded control platform as its next-generation FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) robot controller.
April 15, 2008
NI LabVIEW Targets Industry-Leading ARM Microcontrollers
National Instruments and ARM announced the NI LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers, an extension of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform that directly targets the ARM 7(TM), ARM 9(TM) and Cortex(TM)-M3 microcontroller families.
April 8, 2008
NI Introduces High-Density Industrial Digital I/O for USB
National Instruments announced the NI USB-6509, a bus-powered, portable, USB digital I/O device for acquiring data in a broad range of applications.
April 7, 2008
NI Announces Global Multicore Programming Workshop
National Instruments announced an initiative to deliver free, hands-on multicore programming workshops based on the NI LabVIEW graphical programming language and sponsored by Intel Corporation to engineers and scientists around the globe.
