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April 20, 2009
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Innovating through Tough Times   What to Do with All This Bandwidth? 
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National Instruments vice president Eric Starkloff discusses how to innovate in a time when resources are scarce and the business world has collectively become risk averse.

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  Explore the evolution of the PCI Express bus, which provides a dedicated 250 MB/s per lane and enhancements for easily performing measurement and automation tasks.

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Developer Resources

Robotics Fundamentals: Incorporating Image Sensors
Explore robotics applications using both CCD and CMOS image sensors, which you can implement with LabVIEW and other National Instruments products.
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Webcast: Introduction to Virtualization
Learn the basics of virtualization, a technology you can use to run multiple OSs side by side on the same computer.
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Wireless Data Acquisition Resource Kit
Download example code, tutorials, and instructional videos and learn how to use NI Wi-Fi data acquisition (DAQ) devices to extend your measurements to applications where wiring is difficult or cost-prohibitive.
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How to Build Structural Health and Seismic Monitoring Systems
Both lab and field implementations of structural health monitoring (SHM) require sensors, hardware, and software, although both have unique requirements. Explore resources and choose the right components for your application.
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Example Code: Simulating a Wind Turbine
Download this example code to use LabVIEW and the LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module to simulate a full wind turbine system including the wind turbine, mechanical drive train, generator, power grid, and controller.
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New Products and Technologies

Develop High-Performance Measurement Systems with New Industrial Controllers
Learn how you can use the new NI 31xx series of industrial controllers, which connect to a wide range of external devices to design high-performance, durable measurement platforms for reliable, long-term deployment.
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Download New Modal Analysis VIs for Structural Health Monitoring
Learn more about modal analysis and the series of modal parameter VIs you can download for LabVIEW software.
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NI ELVIS II+ Features 100 MS/s Oscilloscope and New Add-On Boards
Learn about the latest version of the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) design and prototyping platform, a single, integrated system that is ideal for the lab or classroom because it connects theory to real-world applications.
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Optimizing Solar Panel Production
See how Siliken Renewable Energy used NI CompactRIO, the LabVIEW FPGA Module, and an NI PCI-6122 S Series multifunction DAQ board to optimize the solar panel production process.
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Featured CompactRIO Third-Party Module: PROFIBUS DP Master/Slave Module
This module includes features such as cyclic DPV0 Master class 1 services for the fast exchange of I/O data as well as acyclic DPV1 Master class 2 services for configuration and diagnosis purposes.
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Events and Training

This Week: Green Engineering Virtual Event Series
Join your colleagues at this five-part, live virtual event series with chat, demos, and real-world application examples. Explore different green engineering technologies for environmental monitoring, wind energy, solar energy, and power quality.
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Attend the Sixth Annual Virtual Automated Test Summit
Learn best practices for applying top trends in test at this free, online conference and get practical techniques for improving the efficiency of your test systems through on-demand technical training, keynotes, and exhibitions.
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NI TestStand Advanced Architecture Series Now Live
You can now access the new NI TestStand Advanced Architecture On-Demand Training series to learn about the process model and the concept of callbacks. On-Demand Training modules are self-paced eLearning modules that focus on one subject or application area. 
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Discover Why You Should Attend NIWeek 2009
Attend NIWeek 2009 to learn how you can provide cost-saving opportunities to your company, and, to make your NIWeek experience more efficient, check out the preliminary conference program online.
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Find Events in Your Area

Top Five Demos: Instrument Control
1. Porting Instrument Control across Multiple OSs »
2. Developing LXI Systems Faster with a Complete Suite of Development Software »
3. Connecting to Any Bus Using Any Language with NI-VISA »
4. Decreasing Software Development Time Using IVI »
5. Configuring and Debugging Instrument Control Applications with NI Tools »
NI in the Press
FPGAs Reshape Embedded Design »
Robots and Beyond »
NI Puts Virtex-5 at Core of CompactRIO Prototyping Hardware »
Five Things Every Scientist and Engineer Should Know about Wireless Sensor Measurements »
 

Community News
C Interface to LabVIEW FPGA
Download the new C Interface to LabVIEW FPGA from the NI Labs virtual R&D research center.
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IP Corner
Virtex-5 Processing Benchmarks
Learn how you can achieve significant improvements in processing performance using NI FlexRIO, CompactRIO, and R Series reconfigurable I/O (RIO) devices that now feature Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs.
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