There were plenty of sessions on using LabView FPGA at the recent NI Week show in Austin, TX— and new tools from Xilinx for IP optimization. Still, there was a subtle concern among some attendees of ...

Embedded designers have implemented heterogeneous architectures since the advent of commercially viable FPGAs. Initially, FPGAs acted primarily as glue logic for an interface between processing ...

I looked at LabView more than a decade ago, and was very impressed, but I put it aside as test and measurement (T&M) was not at the top of my list of things to do. In the meantime, LabView has become ...

Will designers of microprocessors, SoCs and FPGAs use off-the-shelf PC-based test and development software such as National Instruments’ LabVIEW to design their 65nm products? That’s far from likely.

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

USA: National Instruments announced LabVIEW 8.6, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. Building on the inherent ...

“To meet the performance and flexibility demands of cutting-edge applications, from validating semiconductor chips to testing consumer electronic devices, engineers must adopt the latest technologies ...

As mechanical engineers move closer to the embedded processing realm, complex technologies such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) could pose minor accessibility roadblocks. Or maybe major ones.

While National Instruments LabVIEW graphical programming language can help designers develop software for embedded systems, the company’s CompactRIO hardware plays an equally important role in helping ...

Jeff Kodosky, co-founder and business and technology fellow at National Instruments, was an architect of the LabView graphical programming language. On visit to the NIDays technology conference in ...