NI News from National Instruments Your Global, Customized Source for Company and Product News, Events, and Support Top Stories -------------------------------------------- New PXI Controllers Deliver 50% Higher Performance, Gigabit Ethernet http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505aT1 Reinventing Machine Control http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505aT2 In This Issue -------------------------------------------- Company and Product News-- 1. Development Kit Opens CompactRIO to Custom I/O Modules 2. Conduct Advanced Mathematics and Analysis in LabVIEW 3. Prove Your Expertise with LabVIEW Certification 4. NI USB, CompactFlash DAQ Deliver Portability, Speed 5. What You Want to Know about NI-DAQmx and NI-DAQ 6. Time-Saving Software Features Included with NI-DAQmx 7. Get the Best Performance Possible in LabVIEW 8. Design and Develop with the LabVIEW Platform 9. Inside LabVIEW -- How the Compiler Works 10. Tutorial: Taking Your Measurements to the Web with LabVIEW Events-- 1. Developing Real-Time Applications with LabVIEW 2. PACs for Custom Communications 3. Create Rugged Handheld Test Applications Using LabVIEW 4. Step-by-Step Data Acquisition 5. Advanced Instrument Control Techniques in LabVIEW Support-- 1. Understanding LVDS for Digital Test Systems 2. Where Can I Get a Copy of the Calibration Certificate for My NI Device? 3. Using the NI PXI-4071 7 ½ -digit FlexDMM for High-Resolution Testing 4. Tutorial: Learn the Proper Ground Configuration for Your DAQ System 5. NI LabVIEW Ultrasonic Starter Kit 6. Tutorial: Fundamentals of Sampling with a High-Speed Digitizer 7. Developing a PCM Telemetry Solution with LabVIEW FPGA 8. Multiplying, Dividing, and Scaling in LabVIEW FPGA Company and Product News -------------------------------------------- 1. Development Kit Opens CompactRIO to Custom I/O Modules The NI CompactRIO Module Development Kit (MDK) opens the CompactRIO platform to custom I/O modules so you can develop custom modules for applications requiring unique I/O signals. With the new NI CompactRIO MDK, you can access low-level CompactRIO system electrical architecture and design unique I/O, communication, or control modules. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a01 2. Conduct Advanced Mathematics and Analysis in LabVIEW LabVIEW 7.1 graphical development software features more than 450 mathematics and analysis functions in the LabVIEW analysis library. NI also added a new script node to the function palette in LabVIEW 7, so you can incorporate NI Xmath analysis scripts into LabVIEW VIs. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a02 3. Prove Your Expertise with LabVIEW Certification LabVIEW certification offers a highly credible method to easily identify candidates with pertinent skills for hiring, promoting, or outsourcing decisions. It involves exams that set standards for competency in product feature and design concept use. You can use LabVIEW certifications to objectively recognize and identify a candidate’s LabVIEW expertise. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a08 4. NI USB, CompactFlash DAQ Deliver Portability, Speed Measuring less than 16 cm squared, the NI CF-6004 device is a tiny, yet powerful platform for handheld measurements. With 14 bits of resolution and up to 200 kS/s single-channel sampling on four analog input channels, the CF-6004 packs full measurement functionality into a Type II CompactFlash slot. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a03 5. What You Want to Know about NI-DAQmx and NI-DAQ Get answers to the most frequently asked questions about NI-DAQmx measurement services software and traditional NI-DAQ driver software. The questions are grouped into four categories -- NI-DAQmx description, NI-DAQmx concepts, NI-DAQmx performance, and upgrading from traditional NI-DAQ. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a04 6. Time-Saving Software Features Included with NI-DAQmx NI-DAQmx supports the most popular NI data acquisition (DAQ) products, including M Series multifunction DAQ devices, and is the foundation of the measurement services software included with most NI data acquisition devices. However, NI-DAQmx provides much more than just high-performance, reliable driver support. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a05 7. Get the Best Performance Possible in LabVIEW This application note describes factors affecting VI performance and offers techniques to help you obtain the best performance possible. Learn more about the Profile window, which displays VI execution time and memory usage data, and get more information about memory management in the LabVIEW dataflow model. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a06 8. Design and Develop with the LabVIEW Platform Many people think of NI LabVIEW as a programming language for data acquisition and instrument control applications. However, LabVIEW has evolved to become more than a programming language. It is now a complete system design and development platform primarily targeted toward the design and development of measurement and automation systems. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a07 9. Inside LabVIEW -- How the Compiler Works What does it mean to be compiled? Are LabVIEW VIs (programs) compiled or interpreted? What does the code look like to the computer, and what is in the LabVIEW runtime library? Learn the answers to these fundamental questions and see how you can execute graphical VIs on your CPU. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a09 10. Tutorial: Taking Your Measurements to the Web with LabVIEW LabVIEW helps you solve measurement and automation challenges by incorporating commercial technologies and balancing powerful ease-of-use functionality. It provides the most productive development environment for empowering scientists and engineers to develop their own solutions. You can turn any LabVIEW application, without additional development time, into a remote application accessed via a Web browser. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a10 Events -------------------------------------------- 1. Developing Real-Time Applications with LabVIEW Considering using the LabVIEW Real-Time Module? View this Web event to learn the basics of real-time technology, including real-time software development tools and embedded hardware targets. This introduction features applications that benefit from real-time performance and important development features such as I/O integration, low-level timing, and debugging. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a11 2. PACs for Custom Communications In this Web Event on Demand, discover how programmable automation controllers (PACs), such as Compact FieldPoint running powerful LabVIEW Real-Time software, deliver the ability to perform embedded industrial control that incorporates communication to custom devices, such as bar code scanners and scales. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a15 3. Create Rugged Handheld Test Applications Using LabVIEW Find out how to use the LabVIEW PDA Module with industrial handheld devices from Juniper Systems to create fully customized, portable test applications built to withstand the harshness of your test environment during this Web event. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a12 4. Step-by-Step Data Acquisition During this Web event, the first session in the Step-by-Step Data Acquisition three-part series, learn the parts of a DAQ system and the importance and functions of each. Find out how to choose the right hardware and software for your application and how to set up and configure your system. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a13 5. Advanced Instrument Control Techniques in LabVIEW Learn how to move beyond simple read-and-write functions, use advanced debugging tools, implement proper instrument driver development techniques, and develop applications to communicate with several buses, including USB and Ethernet, during this Web Event on Demand. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a14 Support -------------------------------------------- 1. Understanding LVDS for Digital Test Systems As the ability to produce and process data increases, the transmission of data from one point to another becomes the limiting factor for overall system performance. Low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) is gaining popularity as the solution to these bandwidth bottlenecks. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a16 2. Where Can I Get a Copy of the Calibration Certificate for My NI Device? Learn about National Instruments online calibration certificate tools. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a19 3. Using the NI PXI-4071 7 ½ -digit FlexDMM for High-Resolution Testing See a demonstration of a National Instruments solution for testing an n-channel enhancement-type metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). Because MOSFETs can operate at low current levels, they require high-resolution devices to properly test. The NI-PXI 4071 7 ½ -digit FlexDMM is the industry's most accurate PXI multimeter. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a17 4. Tutorial: Learn the Proper Ground Configuration for Your DAQ System Proper ground configuration is essential for a good data acquisition system. With most measurement systems, you can set up many types of ground configurations depending on the signal you are acquiring or measuring. This tutorial, part of the NI Measurement Fundamentals Series, covers the basics of ground loops and returns. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a18 5. NI LabVIEW Ultrasonic Starter Kit This starter kit, which does not require hardware or hardware driver installation, demonstrates the implementation of ultrasonic data analysis and presentation in LabVIEW and features the basic tools for creating and destroying gates programmatically. These tools greatly increase productivity when starting an ultrasound application with LabVIEW. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a20 6. Tutorial: Fundamentals of Sampling with a High-Speed Digitizer Learn tips and techniques for using National Instruments high-speed digitizers to build the most effective data-sampling system possible. Get fundamental information about the underlying theory of sampling with a high-speed digitizer and various methods to optimize the performance of your data sampling. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a21 7. Developing a PCM Telemetry Solution with LabVIEW FPGA Unlike with other configurable telemetry solutions, you can use the LabVIEW FPGA Module to customize all aspects of the communication stream for your application. If you develop test and data-logging systems for aerospace and energy generation applications, you can use LabVIEW FPGA and National Instruments reconfigurable I/O hardware as a flexible telemetry communication development platform. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a23 8. Multiplying, Dividing, and Scaling in LabVIEW FPGA Engineers developing control and simulation applications using the LabVIEW FPGA Module often need to scale values directly in the FPGA code to generate signals or implement control algorithms. Using FPGA saturation math and scaling functions, you can create code to perform non integer multiplication and division routines that outperform the standard quotient and remainder function. http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/nn0505a22 NI News is customized to your product, industry, and content subscription preferences. 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