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NI now offers an easy way for you to configure NI products online for your classroom and research applications. Create custom hardware and software configurations available with academic discounts.
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Teaching Tools
Featured Textbook: Microelectronic Circuits
Adel Sedra and Kenneth Smith’s Microelectronic Circuits provides the fundamental concepts of analog and digital electronic circuits. Download more than 30 simulation-ready NI Multisim circuit files to enhance your students' learning and comprehension of microelectronics. 
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Program the Xilinx Spartan-3E Academic Starter Board with NI LabVIEW FPGA
You now can teach FPGA-based digital logic, parallelism, and timing using the Xilinx Spartan-3E starter board with LabVIEW graphical programming. 
Download the free LabVIEW FPGA driver.

Students Design Their Own Control Experiments
Undergraduate students at The University of Texas at Austin are learning how to design, simulate, and implement a variety of real-time control experiments using a hands-on approach. 
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Research Lab

SPICE Simulation Fundamentals
The SPICE Simulation Fundamentals series is your free online resource for information on the important concepts and details of SPICE simulation, modeling, and analysis. Learn how circuit simulation is a key part of any design process. 
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Student Paper Finalist at Asilomar Builds on the NI RF Platform
“Real-Time MIMO Discrete Multitone Transceiver Testbed,” a paper by students at The University of Texas at Austin working with professor Brian Evans, was one of seven finalists out of 92 entries in the student paper contest at the IEEE Asilomar 2007 Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.  
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Customize Your Own CompactRIO Mechatronics Bundle
Configure a real-time, FPGA-based, CompactRIO bundle to deploy your control system. The rugged, reconfigurable platform with modular I/O is ideal for controls, mechatronics, and robotics applications.
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Student Corner

Virginia Tech Places Third in DARPA Grand Challenge
Team Victor Tango from Virginia Tech used NI LabVIEW graphical system design and CompactRIO hardware to design, prototype, and deploy its autonomous robotic vehicle, winning third place.  
Learn more and see the vehicle in action.

Develop Engineering Projects with Vernier SensorDAQ
The Vernier SensorDAQ, jointly developed by National Instruments and Vernier, is a data-acquisition interface that features USB connectivity and the ability to automatically detect Vernier sensors to offer unprecedented convenience and power to engineering students. 
Explore Vernier SensorDAQ.


Around Campus

Interactive Learning with Webcasts on Demand
Experience NI technologies at your convenience using webcasts, videos, podcasts, and software demos.
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Watch LabVIEW in Action
The LabVIEW Zone, your source for user groups, example code, and discussion forums, features cool videos of LabVIEW applications.
Discover LabVIEW Zone.