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January 23, 2008

Issue at a Glance 

Teaching Tools

Xilinx Video Tutorial

"Data Acquisition: 7 Steps to Success"

Creating Custom LV Instruments with Multisim

Research Lab
See Robotics in Action
Scilab: A Free Text-Based Math Alternative for LabVIEW
NIWeek 2008

Student Corner
NI LabVIEW Toolkit
LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition


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Recently Released NI Products
LabVIEW Student Edition



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NI, Emona Announce New Plug-In Module for NI ELVIS

With a new telecommunications module for NI ELVIS, an educational design and prototyping platform based on NI LabVIEW, students can explore digital and analog communications concepts in a hands-on learning environment.
Learn more.

Implementing Control Design Theory with LabVIEW

Learn classical and modern control design theory such as PID and state-space modeling using LabVIEW.
Read tutorials and download VIs.

Teaching Tools
Xilinx Video Tutorial: Using LabVIEW FPGA with the Xilinx SPARTAN-3E XUP
Walk through the traditional method of programming an FPGA with textual languages and compare it to the intuitive graphical of LabVIEW. 
View now.

"Data Acquisition: 7 Steps to Success" on Amazon.com
NI has made educational materials available on Amazon.com. This book, an introduction to key data acquisition concepts, helps you get started quickly.
Read more.

Creating Custom LV Instruments with Multisim
Learn how to connect to real-world signals, acquire data to drive real-world circuits, and display simulation data in a way more suitable to your needs with custom virtual instrumentation based on LabVIEW in Multisim.
View tutorial now.


Research Lab

See Robotics in Action
View NI software and hardware use in real-world robotics applications, from humanoid robots to mind-controlled wheelchairs.
Watch the videos.

Scilab: A Free Text-Based Math Alternative for LabVIEW
INRIA Scilab is widely used numerical math software available for free download. Learn how to easily call Scilab scripts from LabVIEW.  
Download now.

NIWeek 2008: Submit Your Solution Today
Submit your presentation abstract or demo summary for the chance to showcase it to more than 2,700 industry experts and professionals at the NIWeek 2008 virtual instrumentation conference.
Submit your application.


Student Corner


NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT Available
LabVIEW users now can create and download VIs to operate and control the NXT robotics system using the LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.
Download the toolkit.

LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition Delivers Multicore to Academia
The LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition offers all the features of LabVIEW 8.5, including multicore processing and hybrid programming.
Learn more.



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