Our Awards
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2012
Technology Awards
- Electronic Design: Best Electronic Design Awards
- Winner: Test & Measurement - Vector Signal Transceiver
- Control Engineering Poland: Product of the Year Award
- Winner: Programmable Automation Controllers - NI cRIO-9082, 1.33 GHz Dual-Core Controller and LX150 FPGA with Real-Time
- Winner: Wireless Communication - NI cDAQ-9191, NI CompactDAQ 1-Slot WiFi Chassis
- Control Engineering Czech Republic: Product of the Year Readers’ Choice Award
- Winner: Instrumentation and Sensors - NI cDAQ-9191, NI CompactDAQ 1-Slot WiFi Chassis
- Control Design: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Data Acquisition System - Stand-Alone NI CompactDAQ
- Winner: Software, Data Acquisition - NI LabVIEW 2012
Corporate Awards
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For
- 13th Consecutive Year
- Great Place to Work Institute
- #3: NI United Kingdom
- #6: NI Italy
- #9: NI Mexico
- Business Insider Best Companies to Work For
- #10 Best Tech Companies To Work For
- #16 Overall
- World's Best Multinational Workplaces
- #16 National Instruments Corporate
- #6 National Instruments Europe
- Glassdoor.com
- #7: Top Companies for Work-Life Balance
- Electronic Design's Top 50 Employers in Electronic Design
- #45: National Instruments
2011
Technology Awards
- The Elektra Awards:
- Renewable Energy Design Award Winner: Remotely Characterising Solar Arrays for Power Performance with CompactRIO
- Test Product of the Year Finalist: NI PXIe-5186 digitizers
- Selezione di Elettronica
- Winner: Innovation Award - NI PXI-5665
- Control Design: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Innovation Award - NI PXI-5665
- Winner: Data Acquisition System – NI LabVIEW 2011
- Winner: Software, PC-Based Machine Control – Multicore NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO With LabVIEW
- Elektronik: Reader's Choice Awards
- Engineering Software of the Year: LabVIEW 2010
- UPMedia New Product Innovation Awards
- Best System Modeling and Simulation Tools – NI Multisim 11.0.1 Circuit Simulation and Analysis Software
- Best Design Verification Tools – NI Multisim Component Evaluator, Analog Devices Edition
Corporate Awards
- Glassdoor.com
- #18: Best Places to Work
- #25: Best Places to Work For Work-Life Balance
- #19: Employees' Choice – 50 Best Places to Work
- Electronic Design's Top 50 Employers in Electronic Design
- #9: National Instruments
- Great Place to Work Institute
- NI UK -- Winner: Most Welcoming Company
- #2: NI Japan (companies with less than 250 employees)
- #14: NI France (companies with less than 500 employees)
- #53: NI Germany
- #13: NI Italy
- NI Mexico
- American Cancer Society
- Outstanding Employee Giving for 2010-2011
- Association of Fundraising Professionals
- Outstanding Philanthropic Large Corporation
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For
- 12th Consecutive Year
- The Data Warehouse Institute
- Best Practice for Organizational Structure – Business Intelligence and Data warehouse teams
- 2011 Supply & Demand Chain Executive
- Winner: Supply & Demand Chain Executive Green Supply Chain Awards
- National Safety Council
- Recipient: Perfect Record Award – NI Corporate Manufacturing
- Frost and Sullivan's Best Practice Awards
- Winner: Indian Measurement and Instrumentation Technology Innovation Leadership Award – NI India
- Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship
- Recipients: Dr. James Truchard, President, CEO, and Cofounder and Jeff Kodosky, Cofounder and NI Business and Technology Fellow
- Seton Family of Hospitals and Austin Business Journal
- Winner: Healthiest Employers of Central Texas
2010
Technology Awards
- Electronic Design
- Winner: Best Electronic Design in the Test & Measurement - Communications Test Category - NI PXIe-5630 Vector Network Analyzer
- Design News: Golden Mousetrap Award
- Winner: Motion Control/Automation Category -- NI Wireless Sensor Networks
- Control Design: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Data Acquisition Systems category
- Winner: Data Recorder category
- Winner: Data Acquisition Software category
- Winner: Machine Vision System category
- Winner: PC-Based Machine Control Software category
- Selezione di Elettronica
- Winner: Innovation Award 2010 - NI LabVIEW 2009
- Industrial Automation Forum 2010
- Winner: Most Innovative Technology - NI Wireless Sensor Network platform
- Control Engineering: Engineers' Choice Award Winners
- Winner: Network Integration, I/O Systems - Wireless category: NI Wireless Sensor Network
- Winner: Software Design, Simulation, Diagnostics category: LabVIEW NI SoftMotion Module
- Control Engineering China: Year of the Product Award
- Winner: Software and Information Integration category – LabVIEW 8.6
- Elektra Online: Embedded System Product of the Year
- Winner: NI Single-Board RIO
- EDN China: Innovation Award
- Winner: Leading product in Test and Measurement – 6.6 GHz PXI Express Signal Analyzer and Vector Signal Generator
- Winner: Leading Product in Programmable Logic – NI FlexRIO
- Application of Electronic Technique: Top Product Award 2009
- Winner: LabVIEW 2009
- UPMedia New Product Innovation Awards
- Recipient: System Modeling and Simulation Tools – NI Multisim 11.0 Circuit Simulation and Analysis Software
Corporate Recognition
- Winner: "Embracing" category, B2B division, for "Embracing Our Customers for Software Development"
- Finalist: "Energizing" category, B2B division, for "Energizing Engineers at NIWeek 2010"
- #53: NI Germany
- #21: NI Italy
- NI UK
2009
Technology Awards
- InTech Innovator Award
- Finalist: NI Wireless Sensor Network Platform
- Elektra: Reader's Choice Awards
- Finalist: Embedded System Product of the Year – NI Single-Board RIO
- Foreign Electronic Measurement Technology Awards
- Winner: Best Technology Innovation, Digital Voltage/Multimeter category – NI PXI-4072 FlexDMM and LCR Meter
- Winner: Best Service Concept Supply, Oscillator/Dynamometer Instrument – NI PXI-5406 40MHz Arbitrary Function Generator
- Sensors Magazine: Best of Sensors Expo Awards
- Honorable Mention: Data Acquisition category – Wi-Fi- data acquisition devices
- Design News: Golden Mousetrap Awards
- Winner: Test & Measurement category – NI 6.6 GHz RF Products
- Finalist: Hardware & Interconnect category – WiFi DAQ
- Control Design: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Data Acquisition Systems category: X-Series Multifunction DAQ
- Winner: Data Acquisition Software category: LabVIEW 2009
- Winner: PC-Based Machine Control Software: LabVIEW 2009
- Finalist: Machine Vision System (no specific products)
- Finalist: Data Recorder (no specific products)
- Elektronik: Reader's Choice Awards
- #2 Design Platform of the Year – NI LabVIEW 8.6
- E&E: Reader's Choice Awards
- Winner: Embedded Systems and Electronic Devices category – NI LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Award
- Winner: Test Product of the Year – Wi-Fi Data Acquisition Devices
- Winner: Data Acquisition category – Wi-Fi Data Acquisition Devices
- Winner: General-Purpose RF/Microwave Instruments category – 6.6 GHz PXI Express RF modular instruments
- Plant Engineering: Product of the Year
- Silver Award: NI Smart Camera
- Finalist: Software Category – NI LabVIEW 8.6
- SPS Automatisierungsatlas: 100 Best Products of the Year
- NI SoftMotion Development Module 2.0
- Control Engineering Èesko's (Czech Republic): Reader's Choice Awards
- Winner: Product of the Year LabVIEW 8.6
- EDN: Innovation Awards
- Finalist: Embedded platform category – NI Single-Board RIO
- Finalist: Instruments category – 6.6Ghz GHz PXI Express RF modular instruments
Corporate Recognition
- Great Place to Work Institute:
- NI France
- NI Mexico
- NI UK
- Forrester Groundswell Award
- Finalist: "Energizing" category for "Energizing Engineers at NIWeek
- TDWI Best Practice Award
- Winner: Master Data Management category
- FIRST Robotics Founders Award
- Recipient: Dr. James Truchard
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For (10th consecutive year)
- Glassdoor.com: Best Places to Work
- #31: National Instruments
- BusinessWeek: Best Places to Launch a Career
- United Way Capital Area
- Winner: Spirit of Caring Award
- National Safety Council
- Recipient: Perfect Record Award – NI Corporate Manufacturing
- MarketingSherpa E-mail Award
- Gold award winner: NI News - Best E-mail Newsletter for Marketing Purposes
- Marketing Leadership Council B2B Marcom Award
- Winner: NI Social Media Campaign – Energizing Engineers at NIWeek
2008
Technology Awards
- EDN: Innovation Awards
- Winner: Boards/Modules/Peripherals category – NI cRIO-9014
- Finalist: Software category – NI LabVIEW 8.5
- Portable Design: 2008 Editor's Choice Award
- Winner: Software Category - LabView 8.5
- EFY: Readers Choice Award
- Winner: Design & Simulation Software Category - NI LabVIEW 8.5
- Elektronik: Product of the Year Award
- NI LabVIEW 8.5
- E&E: Readers Choice Award
- Winner: Measurement Technologies Category - NI USB-LIN/CAN modules
- Control Engineering Èesko's (Czech Republic): Reader's Choice Awards
- Dinner: NI LabVIEW 8.5 – Product of the Year – Application and Programming Software Category
Corporate Recognition
- NI Germany
- NI Mexico
- NI UK
2007
Technology Awards
- Scientific Computing: Readers' Choice Awards
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- Gold Award: Instrument Control category – NI LabVIEW 8.20
- Gold Award: Data Acquisition category – NI LabVIEW 8.20
- Silver Award: Data Acquisition category – NI Measurement Studio
- Bronze Award: Data Management category – NI DIAdem
- Bronze Award: Interfacing/Networking category – NI LabVIEW 8.20
- Design News: Golden Mousetrap Award Finalist
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- Finalist: Test & Measurement category – NI PXI-5152
- Finalist: Analysis & Calculation Software category – NI LabVIEW 8.20
- Finalist: Controller category – NI cRIO-9014
- Control Design: Readers' Choice Awards (no specific products)
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- Data Acquisition
- Data Recorders
- Data Acquisition Software
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Award
- Honorable Mention: NI PXI Express Mixed-Signal Suite
- Electronic Products: Product-of-the-Year Award
- Winner: NI PXI Express Mixed-Signal Suite
- EDN: Hot 100 Products of 2007
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- Computers, Buses, and Boards: NI cRIO-9014
- Test & Measurement: NI PXIe-5122 PXIe digitizer
- Control Engineering: Engineers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Programming Software category – LabVIEW 8.5
- ECN: Annual Technology Award
- Winner: Test & Measurement category –NI LabVIEW 8.5
- EE Times: Ultimate Products for Q4 2007
- #3: Test & Measurement category – NI LabVIEW 8.5
Corporate Recognition
- NI Italy
- NI UK
2006
Technology Awards
- Electronic Design: Best in Test Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 8.20
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Award
- Finalist: NI LabVIEW 8.20
- EDN: Hot 100 Products
- NI LabVIEW 8.20
- Control: Top 50
- #16 Automation Companies
- Control: Reader's Choice Award
- #2 Data Acquisition Dompanies
- Control Design: Reader's Choice Awards
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- #1 Data Acquisition Systems
- #1 Data Acquisition Software
- #2 Motion Control Software, and
- #2 PC-Based Machine Control Software
- #3 Data Recorders
- #4 Machine Vision Systems
- Plant Engineering: Product of the Year
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- Finalist: LabVIEW 8.20
- Finalist: CompactDAQ
- Finalist: LabVIEW for LEGOTMMINDSTORMSTM NXT
- Electronic Products: Product of the Year
- NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Design News: Golden Mousetrap Awards
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- Winner: Test and Measurement Design category – NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Winner: Development Software category – NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Winner: Digital Control/Embedded Computing category – NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module
- Finalist: NI SignalExpress
- Finalist: NI cRIO-4408
- EDN China: Innovation Awards
- Winner: Best Product in Development, Tools, and Software category – NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Winner: Leading Product in Test and Measurement category – NI CompactDAQ
- EDN China: Innovation Awards (Leading product in Test and Measurement category) CompactDAQ
- UK Electronics Weekly: Elektra Awards Finalist
- Finalist: NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Control Engineering China: Best Products of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Best of Sensors Expo: Silver Award
- Winner: NI CompactDAQ
- Eizo Joho Industrial (Japan): Gold Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Electronic Times (Korea): Best Magnet Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Electronics Weekly (UK): Product of the Week
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 8.0
- EDN: Innovation Award (Software category)
- Winner: Software category – NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Design News: Golden Mousetrap Award
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- Winner: Design and Development Tools and Test and Measurement category – NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Winner: Digital Control/Embedded Computing category – NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module
- Design News: Golden Mousetrap Award Finalists
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- Finalist: Design and Development Tools and Test and Measurement category – NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Finalist: Analog Control category – NI SignalExpress 1.1
- Finalist: Digital Control/Embedded Computing category – NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module
- Finalist: Rapid Prototyping-Digital Tools category – NI cRIO-4408
- EDN: Innovation Award
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- Finalist: Software category – NI LabVIEW 8.0
- Finalist: Test and Measurement Systems and Boards category – NI PXI-5922 flexible-resolution digitizer
- Test and Measurement World: Test Product of the Year
- Winner: NI PXI-5922 flexible-resolution digitizer
- Control Engineering: Editor's Choice Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 8
- Electronic Products: Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 8
- Product Design and Development: Engineering Award Finalist
- Finalist: NI PXI-5922 Flex II digitizer
Corporate Recognition
- Great Place to Work Institute:
- NI UK
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For (seventh consecutive year)
- EE Times: ACE Awards
- Finalist: Small Company of the Year
2005
Technology Awards
- Nasa Tech Briefs: 2005 Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 8
- EDN: Hot 100 Products of 2005
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- Winner: Software category – NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module
- Winner: Test and Measurement – NI PXI-5922 flexible-resolution digitizer
- Control Design: 2005 Reader's Choice Award (no specific products)
- Data Acquisition Systems, Software
- Embedded Control Europe (ECE): Most Interesting DAQ Product Announcement
- Winner: NI USB-6501
- Scientific Computing and Instrumentation: Reader's Choice Awards
- Winner: Data Acquisition Boards category – NI E Series DAQ boards
- Winner: Data Acquisition category – NI LabVIEW
- Winner: Instrument Control category – NI LabVIEW
- Winner: Data Acquisition Systems category – NI PXI
- Freescale Technology Forum: Best in Show Award
- Honorable Mention: NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module
- EDN: Innovation of the Year, CompactRIO
- Winner: NI CompactRIO
- EE Times: Ultimate Products 2.1
- Finalist: NI PXI-4071 FlexDMM
- Instrumentation & Automation News: Automation Excellence Award
- Winner: NI Compact FieldPoint/FieldPoint-DIO-550
- Engineering for You: Reader's Choice Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7.1
- Sensors: Best of Sensors Expo Bronze Award
- Winner: Data Acquisition category – NI CompactRIO
- Electronique: Les Electrons d'Or
- Winner: NI PXI-5922 Flex II digitizer
- Mesures: Le Palmarès Technologique
- Winner: Data Acquisition category – NI CF-6004 CompactFlash DAQ
Corporate Recognition
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For (sixth consecutive year)
- FORTUNE: 10 Best Tech Companies to Work For
- Marketing: Top 50 Marketing Employers of 2005
- Network World: Enterprise All-Star Award
- Capital: 50 Best Places to Work in Germany
- #42: NI Germany
- EE Times: ACE Awards
- Finalist: Small/Medium Company of the Year
2004
Technology Awards
- IPB: Editor's Choice Award
- Winner: NI M Series
- EDN: Innovation of the Year
- Finalist: Embedded Systems Category – NI CompactRIO
- EE: 2004 Reader's Choice Awards
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7.1
- Control Engineering: Editors' Choice Award
- Winner: NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW
- EDN: Hot 100 Products of 2004
- Winner: Embedded Tools Category – NI CompactRIO
- Winner: Software Category – NI SignalExpress
- Scientific Computing and Instrumentation: Data Acquisition 2004 Top Products Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW
- Control: Readers' Choice Top 50 Companies List
- ECN: Technology Awards
- Winner: Boards and Modules category, Digital I/O and Timing Devices for Industrial Applications – NI PCI-6528, NI CompactPCI/PXI-6528 I/O devices, NI PCI-6624 counter/timer board
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Awards
- Winner: Software Category – NI Signal Express
- Honorable Mention: NI PXI-5670 RF vector signal generator
- EEProductCenter.com: Ultimate Test & Measurement Products of 2004
- Winner: NI USB devices and M Series products
- EEProduct Center.com: Ultimate Products (overall)
- Finalist: NI PCI-4070 FlexDMM
- The 2004 European Industry Award: Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7.1
- Control Design: Readers' Choice Awards (no specific products)
- Winner: Data Acquisition Software category
- Winner: PC-Based Control Software category
- Winner: Data Acquisition category
- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation: Readers' Choice Awards:
- Winner: Data Acquisition category – NI LabVIEW
- Winner: Instrument Control category – NI LabVIEW
- Winner: Data Acquisition Board category – NI PCI boards, 6000 series
- Winner: Data Acquisition System category – NI PXI
- Processing: Breakthrough Product of 2004
- Winner: NI SoftMotion
- Venture Development Corporation: Best in Show at Embedded Systems Conference 2004
- Winner: NI CompactRIO
- Software Magazine: Software 500 list
- Start: Technology Enabler Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW
- IAN: Automation Excellence Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7.1
- Electronics Weekly: Product of the Week Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7.1
- EDN: Innovation of the Year Award
- Winner: Test and Measurement Category – NI LabVIEW 7 Express
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Awards
- Winner: Compact Vision System
- Honorable Mention: Mixed-Signal Test Platform
- NASA Tech Briefs: Products of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7 Express
- Evaluation Engineering: Readers' Choice Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7 Express
- Control Engineering: Editors' Choice Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7 Express
- Electronic Products: Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7 Express
- Electronics For You (India): Readers' Choice Award
- Winner: Best Design and Simulation Software category – NI LabVIEW 7 Express
- Elektronik (Germany): Test & Measurement Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7 Express
Corporate Recognition
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Places to Work (fifth consecutive year)
- Machine Design Best of the Web
- Winner: ni.com
- Best Employers in Europe
- #5: NI Hungary
- Capital: 50 Best Places to Work
- #38: NI Germany
- Test & Measurement World: Top Vendor Web Site
- Winner: August 2004 – ni.com
- Web Marketing Association: Standard of Excellence 2004 Web Award
- Winner: ni.com
- Association of Support Professionals: Top Ten Best Web Support Sites (third consecutive year)
- Control: Top 50 List of Instrumentation and Controls Suppliers
2003
Technology Awards
- Control Design: Readers' Choice Award
- Winner: NI Data Acquisition Product Line
- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation: Editor's Choice Product list
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- NI LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit 2.0
- TestStand 3.0
- Measurement Studio 7.0
- Data Acquisition, PXI-4204 and PXI-4220
- PCI-7041/6040E real-time board
- LabVIEW 7.0 Express
- CAN FP-1300 interface module
- PCI-7342 motion control board
- EDN: Hot 100 Products of 2003
- NI LabVIEW 7.0 Express
- IAN: Automation Excellence Award
- Winner: NI Compact FieldPoint
- Desktop Engineering: Reader's Choice Award (March)
- Winner: NI DAQCard-6036E
- Design News: Product of the Year
- Winner: Test and Measurement/Control category – NI LabVIEW 7.0 Express
- IAN: Automation Excellence Awards
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 7.0 Express
- Winner: NI Measurement Studio, NI TestStand, CVI
- Sensors: Best of Expo Award
- Gold Winner: NI DAQ products
- Gold Winner: NI LabVIEW 7.0 Express
Corporate Recognition
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For (fourth consecutive year)
- InTech: Dr. Truchard is named one of the 50 Most Influential Industry Innovators
- Figyelo: Top 10 Employers in Hungary (second consecutive year)
2002
Technology Awards
- Electronic Design: Top 50 Milestones for the Industry
- Invention of NI LabVIEW in 1986
- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation: Editor's Choice Product list
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- Digital Time Interval Analyzer Start-Up Kit
- NI FP-1601 next-generation distributed I/O Ethernet module
- NI DAQCard-6036E
- NI Vision Development Module 6.1
- NI PCI-6731 and PCI-6733 high-speed data acquisition analog output modules
- NI Device Driver Development Kit
- Lookout 5.0
- Test and Measurement World: Best in Test
- Test and Measurement World grants an Honorable Mention in the Best in Test category to the NI PXI-4070 FlexDMM
- Winner: NI PXI-5660 RF signal analyzer
- Honorable Mention: NI PXI-4070 FlexDMM
- EDN: Top 100 Products of 2002
- NI PXI-5660 RF signal analyzer
- NI Switch Executive
- Control Engineering: Editors' Choice Award
- NI Compact FieldPoint
- EDN: Top Products of 2002
- NI 2.7 GHz RF signal analyzer
- NI Switch Executive
- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Data Acquisition category – NI LabVIEW 6.1
- Winner: Instrument Control category – NI LabVIEW 6.1
- Winner: Data Acquisition Board category – NI PCI-6115
- Winner: Data Acquisition System category – NI PCI-6115 I/O family
- Finalist: Image Acquisition/Analysis Board category – NI PXI-1409
- Finalist: Programming Language category – NI LabVIEW
- IAN: Automation Excellence Award (March)
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 6.1
- Test & Measurement World: Test Product of the Year
- NI TestStand 2.0
- Nasa Tech Briefs: Product of the Year
- Bronze Award: NI Measurement Studio
Corporate Recognition
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For (third consecutive year)
- Electronic Design (50th Anniversary issue) inducts Dr. Truchard and Jeff Kodosky into its Engineering Hall of Fame for their work in pioneering virtual instrumentation
- Frost & Sullivan CEO of the Year for the Test and Measurement Industry
- Dr. Truchard
- IEEE Spectrum: Top 10 Engineering Internship Programs for EE Students
- Movers and Shakers:
- Best Companies to Work –#5
- 50 Best Companies to Watch
- Association of Support Professionals: 10 Best Web Support Sites of the Year
- ni.com
- 2002 WebAward Competition: Standard of Excellence WebAward
- ni.com
- Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce: Over the Top Customer Service Award
- Winner: Large Business category
- Runner-Up: Innovative Business Award
2001
Technology Awards
- Scientific Computing & Instrumentation Editor's Choice Products
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- DIAdem 8.0
- NI PXI-8140 RT series Ccontrollers
- NI-CAN 1.5 driver software
- LabVIEW Real Time 6i
- NI PXI-1006
- NI DAQCard-6042E Multifunction I/O device
- NI-IMAQ driver software
- NI PXI-4472
- NI PXI-8170 real-time controller
- IMAQ Vision Builder 6.0
- TestStand 2.0 Test Executive Software
- Lookout 4.5
- Data Logging and Supervisory Control Module
- Control Engineering: Editors' Choice Award
- NI DIAdem 8.0
- SC&I : Editor's Choice Product (May)
- NI PXI-8170 real-time controller
- Scientific Computing and Instrumentation: Reader's Choice Awards
- Winner: Instrument Control category – NI LabVIEW 6i
- Winner: Data Acquisition Software category – NI LabVIEW 6i
Corporate Recognition
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For (second consecutive year)
- Worth magazine names Dr. Truchard one of the nation's 50 Best CEOs (third consecutive year)
- Integrated E-commerce Award
- Winner: ni.com
2000
Technology Awards
- The 2000 Electronics Industry Yearbook
- Winner: Top Test and Measurement Product – NI LabVIEW Real-Time Module
- Winner: Top Software Product – NI Measurement Studio
- Top Three Vendor Web Sites – ni.com
- Top Five Web Sites in Europe – ni.com
- Evaluation Engineering: Reader's Choice Award
- Winner: Software category – NI LabVIEW 6i
- Design News: Product of the Year
- Finalist: NI LabVIEW 6i
- EDN: Hot 100 Products of 2000
- NI LabVIEW Real-Time Module
- NI Measurement Studio
- ECN: Best of the Web 2000
- Test and Measurement category – NI LabVIEW
- IAN: Automation Excellence Award
- Winner: NI Measurement Studio
- VXIbus & PXI Newsletter: Best New Software Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 6i
- Plant Engineering: Product of the Year
- Finalist: FieldPoint
- SC&I: Top 5 Products of the Year
- Data Acquisition Software category –NI LabVIEW 6i
- Control Engineering: Editor's Choice Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 6i
- VXIbus and PXI Newsletter: Best New Software Products for 2000
- NI LabVIEW 6i
- Evaluation Engineering: Reader's Choice Award
- Winner: Software category – NI LabVIEW 6i
- Instrumentation and Automation News: Automation Excellence Award
- Winner: NI Measurement Studio
- Mesures: Best Product
- Winner: Data Acquisition category – NI LabVIEW Real-Time Module
Corporate Recognition
- FORTUNE: 100 Best Companies to Work For
- Worth names Dr. Truchard as one of the 50 Best CEOs in America (second consecutive year)
- Cahners Electronics Group: Top Company to Watch
- The 2000 Electronics Industry Yearbook by Cahners Electronic Group: Top 15 Companies Engineers and Engineering Managers Want to Work For
- SC&I: Annual Technology Leader Issue
- NI named Technology Leader
1999
Technology Awards
- Test & Measurement World: Test Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 5.0
- NASA Tech Briefs: Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW 5.0
- Control Engineering: Editor's Choice Award
- Winner: NI FieldPoint distributed I/O system
- EDN: Innovation of the Year Award
- Finalist: NI Flex ADC
- The 1999 Electronics Industry Yearbook by Cahners Electronic Group: Top 10 Test & Measurement Products of the Year
- NI GPIB-1394
- NI 5911
- Interchangeable Virtual Instruments (IVI)
- Evaluation Engineering: Readers' Choice Award
- Winner: Top Software Product – NI LabVIEW Version 5.1
- Control Engineering: Best Products of 1999
- NI Lookout
- Test and Measurement World: Best in Test Award
- Winner: NI 5911 digitizer
Corporate Recognition
- Worth Magazine names National Instruments President and CEO James Truchard to the 50 Best CEOs in the Country list
- National Instruments receives the 1999 Large Business Partner of the Year Award by the Austin Parks Foundation. This award is presented to those companies, which provide outstanding contributions to parks in Austin.
- Forbes magazine names National Instruments one of the Top 2000 U.S. small businesses for the fourth consecutive year
- RSM McGlarey, one of the nation's largest accounting, tax, and business consulting firms serving midsized businesses, grants ni.com the Outstanding Midsized Business Web site Award out of 1000 manufacturers in the United States
1998
Technology Awards
- International Data Group – Romania: Award of Excellence
- Winner: NI LabVIEW
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Award
- Winner: NI PXI
- Frost & Sullivan: Market Engineering Leadership Award
- Winner: NI PXI
- Product Design and Development: Engineering Award
- Finalist: NI PXI
Corporate Recognition
- Forbes: 200 Best Small Companies (third consecutive year)
- The University of Texas at Austin College of Engineering: Texas Star Award
- The American Consulting Engineers Council: Engineering Excellence Award
- Winner: NI Austin Campus Water Quality Pond
1997
Technology Awards
- Test & Measurement World Best in Test Award
- Winner: NI ComponentWorks
- KPMG Peat Marwick LLP: High-Tech Product of the Year Award
- Winner: NI PXI
- EE Product News: Product of the Year Award
- Winner: Computer-Based Instruments category EDN: Innovation of the Year Awards
- EDN: Innovation of the Year Awards
- Finalist: NI PXI
Corporate Recognition
- Forbes: 200 Best Small Companies (second consecutive year)
- The City of Austin: Beautification Award
- Winner: NI Austin sites
1996
Technology Awards
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Awards
- Honorable Mention: NI AT-MIO-16E-2 and AT-MIO-16XE-50 DAQ boards
- Control Engineering: Best New Product of 1996
- Winner: NI BridgeVIEW software
Corporate Recognition
- Forbes: 200 Best Small Companies
- KPMG Peat Marwick LLP: High-Tech Industry Leadership Award
1995
Technology Awards
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Award
- Honorable Mention: NI MXI-2
- Honorable Mention: NI E Series plug-in DAQ boards
- Control Engineering: Editors' Choice Award
- Winner: NI LabVIEW
- Scientific Computing & Automation: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Instrument Control Software category – NI LabVIEW
- Winner: Data Acquisition Hardware category – NI E Series plug-in data acquisition boards
- Winner: Board Level Products category - 100 MHz NI VXIpc-486 model 599 embedded VXI bus computer
- MacWorld: World Class Awards
- Winner: Science and Engineering, Technical Sofware category – NI LabVIEW
1994
Technology Awards
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Award
- Winner: NI PCMCIA-GPIB
- MacUser: Editors' Choice Award
- Winner:Best New Science/Engineering Product category – NI LabVIEW
- Finalist: Best New Science/Engineering Product category – NI HiQ
- Laboratory Equipment: Readers' Choice Award
- Winner: Graphical Software category – NI LabVIEW
- Scientific Computing & Automation: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Data Acquisition Software category – NI LabVIEW
- Winner: Instrument Control Software category – NI LabWindows™
- Winner: Data Acquisition Hardware category – NI AT-MIO-64F-5
- Winner: IEEE 488 Interface Board category – NI AT-GPIB
- R&D: R&D 100 Award
- Winner: NI DAQCard-700
1993
Technology Awards
- Test & Measurement World: Test Product of the Year
- Winner: NI LabVIEW
- WINDOWS: WIN 100 Awards
- Winner: NI LabVIEW
- R&D: R&D 100 Award
- Winner: Gabor Spectrogram joint time-frequency analysis algorithm
- Scientific Computing & Automation: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Instrument Control Software category – NI LabWindows
- Winner: Data Acquisition Software category – NI LabVIEW
- Winner: 488 (GPIB) Board Level Products category – NI AT-GPIB
- Winner: Personal Instrumentation Board Level Products – National Instruments
- XIbus Newsletter: Best Product of the Year
- Winner: VXI Software category - NI LabVIEW
1992
Technology Awards
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Awards
- RHonorable Mention: NI LabWindows for DOS
- Honorable Mention: NI VXIcpu-030 embedded controller
- EDN: Innovation of the Year
- Winner: Gabor Spectrogram
- MacUser Spain: Editors' Choice Awards
- Runner-Up: Programming Languages – NI LabVIEW 2
- Finalist: Programming Languages – NI LabVIEW 2
- Canadian High Technology Show: Canadian Electronics Product Innovation Award
- Runner-Up: Measurement and Instrumentation category – NI LabVIEW 2
- Scientific Computing & Automation: Readers' Choice Awards
- Winner: Best Data Acquisition Software category – NI LabVIEW
- Winner: Best Instrument Control Software category – NI LabWindows
- Design News: Best Product Award
- Runner-Up: NI LabVIEW
- BasicPro: Readers' Choice Award
- Winner: NI LabWindows
1991
Technology Awards
- Test & Measurement World: Top 10 Products of the Decade (1981-1990)
- Honorable Mention: MXI and MXI-based products
- Test & Measurement World: Best in Test Awards
- Honorable Mention: NI MXI and MXI-based products
- Laboratory Equipment: Top 10 Products of the Year Award
- Winner: Instrument Software category – NI LabVIEW and LabWindows
- MacUser: Editor's Choice Award
- Winner: Best Data Acquisition/Analysis Product category – NI LabVIEW 2
Corporate Recognition
- Dr. James Truchard receives the Texas High Technology Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award
- Test & Measurement World Magazine names Dr. James Truchard winner of the 1991 John Fluke Senior Memorial Award
- Test & & Measurement World presents Special Award for Technical Excellence to Ron Wolfe for the NI VXIbus
1990
Technology Awards
- Electronics Test: Readers' Choice Award
- Winner: Instrument Controller Software – National Instruments
- MacUser: Editor's Choice Award
- Winner: Best Data Acquisition/Analysis Product category – NI LabVIEW
1989
Technology Awards
- Laboratory Equipment: Top 10 Products of the Year
- Winner: NI LabWindows
- Electronic Design: Best Products of 1989
- Winner: Test & Measurement category – NI MXIbus and NI EISA-A2000 data acquisition board
1987
Technology Awards
- Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News: Readers' Choice Award
- Winner: Top Instrumentation/General Engineering Product category – NI LabWindows
Corporate Recognition
- Dr. Truchard receives one of the first Texas High Technology Entrepreneur awards