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5 unusual facts about National Instruments


Automated Imaging Association

Cognex Corporation and National Instruments are also two big names in the machine vision industry that are members of the AIA.

Hi-Q

HiQ (math software) is a differential analyzer application currently sold by National Instruments

IBM Austin Research Laboratory

The campus is located near other tech companies, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus, National Instruments, Google, Apple Inc, and AT&T Labs.

LabVIEW

According to the National Instruments license agreement an executable built with LabVIEW should contain a note that the software is written in LabVIEW.

LabVIEW (short for Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments.


Hardware description language

Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc.'s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages such as SystemVerilog, SystemVHDL, and Handel-C seek to accomplish the same goal, but are aimed at making existing hardware engineers more productive versus making FPGAs more accessible to existing software engineers.

PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation

PXI is promoted by the 54-member PXI Systems Alliance (PXISA), whose sponsor members are (in alphabetical order) ADLINK, Aeroflex, Agilent Technologies, Geotest, Gigatronics, National Instruments, Pickering Interfaces and Teradyne.

VI Technology

The enterprise test solution consists of a server module built on Microsoft SQL Server database with extensions for SQL Server Reporting Services and interfaces to standard automated test software including National Instruments LabVIEW, TestStand, LabWindows/CVI, and Microsoft Visual Studio .

Wissenaire

Attracting huge crowd of technical enthusiasts the fest witnessed workshops by international giants like Microsoft, Dell, IBM and National Instruments.


see also

LabVIEW

National Instruments also offers a product called Measurement Studio, which offers many of the test, measurement and control capabilities of LabVIEW, as a set of classes for use with Microsoft Visual Studio.