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June 1, 2009
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Take the New LabVIEW Guided Tour   The Basics of ARM Microcontroller Technology
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Walk through the LabVIEW graphical development environment to see how you can use this software to quickly develop your applications.

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  Learn about this versatile technology used in a variety of embedded systems such as mobile phones and medical devices.

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Developer Resources

Eight Rules for Prototyping
Learn how you can rapidly turn your ideas and concepts into a prototype and get real feedback from customers on the value of your innovation.
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Webcast: Robotics 101
Explore the diverse robotics landscape and potential application challenges in this webcast, which focuses on unmanned vehicle applications in academia and industry.
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Webcast: Rapidly Prototyping Automotive ECUs
See how Drivven used NI CompactRIO hardware and LabVIEW to implement a flexible, high-performance engine control platform in less time and for less money than other platforms.
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U.S. Stimulus Funding Resource Center
Find out how NI can help you use American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to further your research.
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New Products and Technologies

LabVIEW Integrates with EPICS for Big Physics Control
Learn more about LabVIEW integration with the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) I/O controller, which engineers use in the control systems of big physics applications. 
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New FPGA-Based Hardware Enhances Hands-On Learning
See how the new NI Digital Electronics FPGA Board, which integrates with NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) II and NI ELVIS II+, combines analog and digital design instruction into one affordable platform.
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New PXI Express Switches Increase Test System Flexibility
Increase the flexibility of your system with six new PXI Express switches, which you can place in closer proximity to PXI Express modules for improved system cabling and connectivity.
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Developing an Onboard Diagnostic Data Extraction System for Vehicle Emission Analysis
Find out how researchers used LabVIEW to create an intuitive software package that communicates with various onboard diagnostic protocols and reads, parses, displays, and logs relevant data.
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Events and Training

10 Reasons to Become a LabVIEW Certified Developer
See how LabVIEW certification can improve your career, from increasing your salary potential to helping you reach your personal and professional goals.
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Learn New Trends, Techniques at NIWeek Summits
Explore NIWeek 2009 technical summits, which feature targeted keynotes, technical training, and demonstrations by NI developers and leading researchers in robotics, military and aerospace, RF and wireless communications, and vision.
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Live Webcast: Choosing the Right DAQ Device
Learn how to choose the right data acquisition (DAQ) device and computer combination for your application, and explore new technologies such as the Intel Atom processor and wireless DAQ devices.
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Top Five Example Code 
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2. Modbus Library for LabVIEW »
3. NI SoftMotion Development Module 2.1 Servo PID Tuning Reference »
4. C Interface to LabVIEW FPGA »
5. NI-DAQmx Multidevice Streaming Reference »

Community Highlight
LabVIEW MP3 Playlist Generator
Congratulations to Troy Kujawski, who won first place in the "Flip for LabVIEW" video contest. Troy’s application easily makes MP3 playlists that can be transported to different computers with different directory structures.
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LabVIEW Tool of the Month
USB Eddy Current Instrument
This portable instrument by Practical Physics is ideal for replacing magnetic penetrant inspection and provides a low-cost entry point into eddy current testing.  
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NI Cares
Inspiring the Innovators of Tomorrow
See how NI works closely with educational organizations and companies such as the LEGO® Group to support hands-on, project-based learning that inspires and engages students.
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