What Is NI LabWindows™/CVI?
LabWindows/CVI is a proven ANSI C development environment for test and measurement that increases the productivity of engineers and scientists. For more than 20 years, C developers have used LabWindows/CVI to create high-performance, stable applications in manufacturing, military, aerospace, telecommunications, and automotive industries. LabWindows/CVI streamlines development with hardware configuration assistants, measurement and analysis libraries, debugging tools, and user interface tools.
Key Features
Explore the main features of LabWindows/CVI below.
Integrated Development Environment
Develop, Debug, and Manage Large Applications
Manage your project, edit and debug source code, build a user interface, and test code output and performance in one streamlined, tabbed workspace. Customize your development style.
Create Professional and Portable Applications
Tools for advanced debugging, code documentation, and system deployment help you create high-quality, shippable applications. Integrate source code control, requirements, and data management systems.
ANSI C Development and Productivity Tools
Complete Development Projects in Less Time
Program faster using LabWindows/CVI CodeBuilder to generate code skeletons. Drag and drop functions into your program and test code segments in the Interactive Execution window.
Streamline the Debugging Process
Find and fix bugs with advanced tools for memory leak detection, conditional breakpoints, and just-in-time debugging. Also discover program inefficiencies with the LabWindows/CVI Execution Profiler.
State-of-the-Art Hardware Connectivity
Connect to a Wide Variety of Instruments and FPGAs
Quickly acquire data from GPIB, USB, serial, Ethernet, PXI, VXI, and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) instruments using the built-in instrument I/O libraries or built-in instrument drivers.
Simplify Acquisition With Code-Generating Tools
Streamline data acquisition and instrument connectivity using two interactive measurement assistants.
Advanced Analysis and Signal Processing
Use Powerful Algorithms and Functions
Condition and transform your signal using smoothing windows, digital filters, and frequency-domain transforms. With these functions, you can perform inline analysis in real time on acquired signals.
Draw Meaningful Results From Your Data
With hundreds of built-in, engineering-specific functions, you do not have to write your own algorithms to turn raw data into meaningful information and conclusive results.
Scientific User Interface Controls and GUI Editor
Present Data in an Intuitive and Impactful Format
Use graphical user interface controls, such as buttons, knobs, slides, gauges, tanks, dials, and graphs, designed for engineering applications and compatibility with hardware-acquired data types.
Create a Professional Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Develop a custom interface for your applications with measurement-specific components you can drag, drop, and extend. Easily generate code callbacks to interact with GUI components programmatically.
Support for the Latest PC Technologies
Program Multicore and 64-Bit Systems
Meet the challenges of designing multicore applications with support for 32- or 64-bit application development and simplified ANSI C thread synchronization functions and optimized threading.
Integrate Web Applications and .NET Code
Take advantage of Microsoft .NET technologies to invoke methods and set and get properties from .NET assemblies. Also connect your application to the web through email, FTP, Telnet, and ping.
Multiplatform Support
Design Reliable, Deterministic Real-Time Systems
Use the LabWindows/CVI Real-Time Module to reuse existing ANSI C code, target commercial off-the-shelf hardware targets and I/O, and use a single toolchain for real-time and Windows development.
Seamlessly Distribute Your Code to a Linux Target
With the LabWindows/CVI Run-Time Module for Linux, create high-performance, stable applications on a Windows system and later compile and run these applications on a Linux target.
NI TestStand Software Integration
Substantially Reduce Development Time
NI TestStand test management software delivers features specifically designed to help you develop LabWindows/CVI test systems quickly.
Flexible Programming and Debugging
Increase code reusability and maximize your software investment with the flexible module. Call functions within any LabWindows/CVI .c, .obj, .lib, or .dll file regardless of the function prototype.
The mark LabWindows is used under a license from Microsoft Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.
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