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How to do Embedded System Design

With National Instruments graphical system design, you can rapidly design, prototype, and deploy embedded systems using intuitive graphical programming software with tightly integrated, off-the-shelf hardware. Whether designing autonomous vehicles, medical devices, industrial machines, semiconductor machines, consumer electronics, or other custom devices, you can take advantage of the NI embedded platform to reduce the cost of your embedded design.

  • Use the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment to interface with common third-party tools to model and simulate your design
  • Improve your design by seamlessly prototyping with real-time computing, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processing, and modular I/O
  • Deploy your design to either off-the-shelf or custom hardware for shorter design cycles

Introduction to Embedded Design Resource Kit
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Featured Case Study

See how Ventura Aerospace developed an intelligent fire monitoring and suppression control system for FedEx Express using NI LabVIEW software and NI Single-Board RIO hardware to prevent catastrophic fires within freight aircraft and keep pilots, packages, and planes safe from fires that may start in the shipping containers.

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More Embedded Design Case Studies

KC BioMediX Uses Graphical System Design to Rapidly Develop a Low-Cost Device for Helping Premature Infants Learn to Oral Feed

See how a medical device startup company used the NI CompactRIO platform, NI Single-Board RIO and NI LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA modules to create a device that helps premature babies learn to oral feed, while providing doctors and nurses with the ability to accurately assess the baby's feeding ability.

CERN Uses NI LabVIEW Software and PXI Hardware to Control World's Largest Particle Accelerator

See how CERN used LabVIEW, the LabVIEW Real-Time Module, the LabVIEW FPGA Module, and NI SoftMotion software with NI R Series reconfigurable I/O hardware for PXI to develop an FPGA-based motion control system capable of intercepting misguided or unstable particle beams.

Embedded Design Reference Architectures

View sample embedded design systems created using National Instruments hardware and software.