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Top Stories May 23, 2007
Issue at a Glance
Teaching Tools
Test-Drive LabVIEW MathScript Online
Featured Textbook: Applied Mechatronics
Practical Teaching Ideas

Research Lab
Refresh Your Knowledge of RF Concepts and Learn Best Practices for RF Design
Attend the Graphical System Design Summit at NIWeek 2007
Getting Started with NI Tools for Mechatronics Applications
Modeling Wireless Communications Systems in LabVIEW

Student Corner
Sharpen Your Programming Skills in the LabVIEW Zone Learning Center
Test-Drive NI Multisim

Around Campus
Attend NIWeek 2007 in Austin, Texas
Are You on a LabVIEW Campus?




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Learn how you can get unlimited seats of NI LabVIEW and other NI software for your department, college or campus in this 10-minute webcast highlighting the new features of the NI Academic Site License.
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LabVIEW Student Edition Now Available for Windows Vista
The latest version of the LabVIEW Student Edition Software Suite now works with Windows Vista. Based on LabVIEW 8.2.1, the student edition includes a suite of software for class projects such as control design, simulation, and mechatronics; signal processing; data acquisition; algorithm development and filter design.
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Teaching Tools
Test-Drive LabVIEW MathScript Online
National Instruments LabVIEW MathScript adds math-oriented, textual programming to LabVIEW through the popular .m file script syntax used by The MathWorks, Inc. MATLABĀ® software and others. The LabVIEW MathScript Online Evaluation is a free, Web-based utility you can use to immediately try your existing .m file scripts in a browser without installing LabVIEW.
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Featured Textbook: Applied Mechatronics
Applied Mechatronics integrates the disciplines of mechanical and electrical engineering to provide a comprehensive overview of the technologies used to develop mechatronics devices, including LabVIEW, the LabVIEW Simulation Module, and the LabVIEW Control Design Toolkit. The textbook, which contains numerous classroom-tested examples and simulations, presents material in a format that lends itself to collaborative, project-based learning.
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Practical Teaching Ideas
Practical Teaching Ideas is a free collection of introductory and advanced laboratory assignments, on topics such as circuit theory, transistors and RF communications. This comprehensive electronics course was developed by an experienced instructor to provide all professors and lab instructors with a ready-made set of experiments for their electronics courses.
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Research Lab

Refresh Your Knowledge of RF Concepts and Learn Best Practices for RF Design
National Instruments is collaborating with a network of partners to bring you the RF Developer's Network. Through your participation, you can receive a continual stream of brief multimedia tutorials to assist you in the design of RF and wireless products.
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Attend the Graphical System Design Summit at NIWeek 2007
Join leaders from industry and academia for the Graphical System Design Summit featuring two days of technical sessions, training, and presentations from pioneers in embedded design trends and innovations. This year's summit spotlights the emerging challenges of algorithm engineering and embedded mechatronics design.
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Getting Started with NI Tools for Mechatronics Applications
Download this mechatronics resource kit to learn how you can use NI tools to integrate mechanical design, signal processing, control design, and more. View a webcast, read a white paper, or explore a Web-based tutorial in this comprehensive resource for mechatronics applications.
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Modeling Wireless Communications Systems in LabVIEW
Wireless digital communications systems use discrete changes in the phase, frequency, or amplitude of an RF carrier signal to transmit digital information. To explore this and other similar relationships, you can use the NI Modulation Toolkit for LabVIEW to interactively model a wireless communications system.
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Student Corner

Sharpen Your Programming Skills in the LabVIEW Zone Learning
From the basic programmer to the advanced developer, the LabVIEW Zone Learning Center is an effective resource for expanding LabVIEW knowledge. View application notes, online tutorials from preeminent universities, and leading textbooks to get started with graphical programming or take your LabVIEW skills to the next level.
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Test-Drive NI Multisim
Use Multisim to easily capture and simulate your circuits. Multisim provides a simple and efficient capture environment combined with easy-to-use simulation tools, including virtual instruments and sophisticated SPICE analyses.
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Around Campus

Attend NIWeek 2007 in Austin, Texas
Join engineers, scientists, students, and educators from all over the world for three full days of interactive technical sessions, exhibitions, and workshops on the latest developments in graphical system design tools and technologies. Don't miss the early bird registration starting at $75 for educators.
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