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Top Stories	February 12, 2007	Issue at a Glance Company and Product News • Design Custom Motion Controllers with National Instruments LabVIEW • Weekly NI LabVIEW Nuggets • Improving a Well Logging Data Acquisition System with Virtual Instrumentation • Using Graphical System Design for Development and Control of UUVs • Deploy NI LabVIEW from 12 in. HMIs Development Resources • Voice Recognition Demo with LabVIEW and Windows Vista • Selecting Hard Drives for Test, Measurement, and Control Systems • Comparing VME and PXI Platforms • Example Code: Reading Microsoft Excel Files with the Excel Automation Server • Example Code: Digital Read and Write on Different Lines of the Same Port Events • Webcast: Implementing Synchronization with USB Data Acquisition Devices • Webcast: Introduction to LabVIEW Real-Time for Industrial Control • LabVIEW Basics I - AUSTIN, TX - 02/19/2007 • LabVIEW Basics II - AUSTIN, TX - 02/22/2007 • Certified LabVIEW Architect Exam - AUSTIN, TX - 02/27/2007 Of Recent Interest • Top 10 NI News Articles of 2006 • 32-Bit versus 64-Bit Windows Vista View NI News Archives Local Sales Contact Info Robert Manion Tel: (210) 481-4869 Fax: (512) 683-7827 robert.manion@ni.com Additional Local Contacts Subscription Preferences NI News is customized to your product, industry, and content subscription preferences.
NI Introduces Industry's Highest-Performance PXI Embedded Controllers
The new National Instruments family of PXI, PXI Express and PXI real-time embedded controllers is based on the 2.16 GHz dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7400 and delivers a performance improvement of more than 100 percent compared to systems running traditional single-core processors. Learn more.
Ethernet Adoption Encourages Open Protocols
Ethernet is well suited for distributed test and industrial automation systems. With Ethernet, as well as PCI Express and USB, industrial automation and test systems can operate with higher performance at lower costs. Learn more.
Company and Product News Design Custom Motion Controllers with National Instruments LabVIEW The latest version of the NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW expands this flexible software environment to stepper motor control and adds support for the Windows Vista OS and new National Instruments CompactRIO controllers for high-performance motion control. Learn more. Weekly NI LabVIEW Nuggets Check out these LabVIEW tips, tricks, and more compiled from a weekly posting on the NI discussion forums. Learn more. Improving a Well Logging Data Acquisition System with Virtual Instrumentation Rocky Mountain Wireline Service used National Instruments LabWindows/CVI software and PXI hardware to develop a rugged data acquisition system capable of withstanding the demanding environmental conditions for oil and gas well operation. Learn more. Using Graphical System Design for Development and Control of UUVs Researchers at the University of Limerick used NI CompactRIO, Compact Vision System, and LabVIEW to create a solution for system integration, testing, and implementation of advanced control algorithms for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) through rapid control prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop techniques. Learn more. Deploy NI LabVIEW from 12 in. HMIs With the LabVIEW Touch Panel Module, you can deploy LabVIEW front panel HMIs to Windows CE devices from National Instruments and third-party companies. Learn more. Development Resources Voice Recognition Demo with LabVIEW and Windows Vista This Windows Vista demonstration showcases new Microsoft software libraries included as part of the operating system. Using LabVIEW, developers can harness innovative technologies within Windows Vista to create more powerful, sophisticated applications. View this demo. Selecting Hard Drives for Test, Measurement, and Control Systems Explore factors important when choosing a hard drive, such as the environmental conditions of the system deployment, your planned use of the system, and your requirements for redundancy and spares for the system. Learn more. Comparing VME and PXI Platforms Examine the merits of VME and PXI platforms and hybrid platform solutions that not only exceed today's technical needs but do so in a cost-effective way. Learn more. Example Code: Reading Microsoft Excel Files with the Excel Automation Server This DataPlugin example shows how you can read Microsoft Excel files by using the Excel automation server (CreateObject). You can adjust the DataPlugin to read any Microsoft Excel file. Download this example. Example Code: Digital Read and Write on Different Lines of the Same Port This example demonstrates how you can use LabWindows/CVI to program different lines for input and output on the same port. If you have a device with digital lines that you can individually program, you can use this example as a starting point for programming multidirectional digital ports. Download this example. Events Webcast: Implementing Synchronization with USB Data Acquisition Devices Explore advanced timing and synchronization tips and tricks for NI CompactDAQ and USB data acquisition devices. Learn the theory behind synchronization, identify the types of applications that benefit from synchronization, and see live demonstrations with USB data acquisition devices. View this webcast. Webcast: Introduction to LabVIEW Real-Time for Industrial Control Learn about the LabVIEW Real-Time Module, which you can use to implement advanced functionality such as analog calculations and computation, vibration monitoring, Web interaction, and data logging. View this webcast. LabVIEW Basics I - AUSTIN, TX - 02/19/2007 Register for this Event LabVIEW Basics II - AUSTIN, TX - 02/22/2007 Register for this Event Certified LabVIEW Architect Exam - AUSTIN, TX - 02/27/2007 Register for this Event
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