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Top Stories	July 25, 2006	Issue at a Glance Company and Product News • New On-Demand Training from NI • Take a Look Inside the New USB M Series • New Measurement-Ready Options for OEM Designers • NI ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit Adds XCP Support • Improving Retinal Disease Treatment with Intelligent DAQ Development Resources • Tutorial: Technologies for Building Wireless Industrial I/O Systems • Selecting the Right PC for Your PCI Express Hardware • Using DCs for High-Speed RF/IF Streaming • How to Perform a Serial Loopback Test • Embedded Drivers for Linux®, QNX, and VxWorks Events • Webcast: Automating Lab Instruments with NI LabVIEW • Webcast: Avoiding the 7 Most Common Problems in Switch Programming • Webcast: Creating User-Defined Express VIs • Webcast: Managing Requirements and Developing Large LabVIEW Applications • Industry-Leading Researchers, NI Developers to Speak at NIWeek 2006 Summits Support • Example Code: ActiveX for Beginners • Example Code: RF Frequency Sweep • Example Code: Creating a Simple Music Synthesizer • Example Code: Delay IMAQ Acquisition • Example Code: Synchronized Analog Input across Multiple NI CompactDAQ Chassis Of Recent Interest • Most Viewed Content on ni.com • Find Events in Your Area View NI News Archives Local Sales Contact Info Travis Ferguson Tel: (512) 683-0100 Fax: (512) 683-9411 travis.ferguson@ni.com Additional Local Contacts Subscription Preferences NI News is customized to your product, industry, and content subscription preferences.
Lower Your Test Costs with New Oscilloscope
The new NI PXI-5105 8-channel digitizer, the lowest price-per-channel high-speed data acquisition product in its class, offers a cost-effective alternative to systems that use multiplexed A/D converters or switches to increase channel count. You can use the PXI-5105 60 MS/s, 12-bit digitizer to increase the number of analog input channels in your systems while lowering test costs. Learn more.
Analog Sensors Get Smart
Sensors can tell you information about virtually anything, from blood pressure to structural problems on interstate highways. Engineers and scientists developing new micro-electro, micromechanical, and wireless technologies are striving to expand the use of sensors into all aspects of life. However, most engineers and scientists using sensors in traditional applications still use the same analog sensors they have used for decades. Learn more.
Company and Product News New On-Demand Training from NI National Instruments recently introduced new benefits for the Standard Service Program (SSP) and Premiere Service Program (PSP). These new features make it easier than ever to stay current with the latest software releases and access resources designed to ensure your success with NI products. Learn more. Take a Look Inside the New USB M Series National Instruments M Series multifunction data acquisition devices deliver an extensive set of features that make them ideal for fast, accurate analog and digital I/O. Built on the same technologies that boosted the popularity of PCI and PXI M Series plug-in DAQ devices, the new NI M Series DAQ devices for USB provide more performance, I/O, and value than other USB data acquisition devices. Learn more. New Measurement-Ready Options for OEM Designers OEM engineers have a wide range of development options, from designing at the component level to optimize cost to developing at the subsystem level to dramatically cut development time. Often, making a good decision on these trade-offs is the difference between profit and loss. For lower-volume OEM designs, "application-ready" subsystems are often used to prototype, get to market quickly, and test market acceptance before starting a cost-optimized custom design. Learn more. NI ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit Adds XCP Support The new ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2.0 extends the National Instruments LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, and Microsoft Visual C/C++ development environments to support measurement and calibration applications for designing and validating automotive electronic control units (ECUs). With the latest upgrade, you now can use the toolkit to develop and verify next-generation ECUs with the Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol (XCP). Learn more. Improving Retinal Disease Treatment with Intelligent DAQ Traditional methods of panretinal laser photocoagulation to treat retinal diseases caused by diabetes have changed little in the past 35 years. Using NI LabVIEW software and intelligent data acquisition (DAQ) hardware, OptiMedica developed a system to improve this treatment, resulting in better precision and improved safety than previous, outdated methods. Learn more. Development Resources Tutorial: Technologies for Building Wireless Industrial I/O Systems As wireless technology makes inroads in the industrial space with multiple standards, systems integrators are faced with the challenge of selecting the right technology for their applications. See which wireless standards are suited for I/O and sensor networks, controller networks, or SCADA networks. Learn how to interface these wireless standards to your existing systems to build your own wireless industrial I/O systems. View this tutorial. Selecting the Right PC for Your PCI Express Hardware This white paper examines the next generation of the PCI peripheral architecture, PCI Express. Learn about the technology behind PCI Express and issues to consider when purchasing a PC with a PCI Express peripheral architecture. Learn more. Using DCs for High-Speed RF/IF Streaming An integral part of many RF/IF communications systems is a digital downconverter (DC). To understand the function of the DC, look at a typical RF system. This system may involve multiple analog upconversion and downconversion stages that convert the signal from radio frequency (RF) to intermediate frequency (IF) and vice versa. Learn more. How to Perform a Serial Loopback Test Learn how to perform a loopback test, where you can send and receive data from the same serial port to verify that the port is operational. To perform this test, you need to modify your null-modem serial cable temporarily so that the transmit and receive pins are connected. Learn more. Embedded Drivers for Linux®, QNX, and VxWorks Although data acquisition I/O vendors invest several man-years developing high-quality, easy-to-use driver software, sometimes embedded system developers need even more flexibility. To offer this flexibility when vendors add I/O to their choices of embedded hardware and OS, National Instruments provides the NI Measurement Hardware DDK (Driver Development Kit). Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. Learn more. Events Webcast: Automating Lab Instruments with NI LabVIEW Learn how to easily automate your instruments as well as build custom software for your experiments with LabVIEW by viewing three applications. The first shows how to create a PC-based system for taking accurate pH measurements. The second shows an automated test tube inspection that reduces errors and tedious monitoring. The last example discusses controlling a sample preparation system that has multiple variables. View this Webcast. Webcast: Avoiding the 7 Most Common Problems in Switch Programming See how the latest NI Switch Executive features simplify the configuration and programming of ultrahigh-density switching applications. Learn how to set up IVI switches in Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX), configure channels, integrate multiple modules, create route groups, and validate your entire switch application. View this Webcast. Webcast: Creating User-Defined Express VIs If you design code for colleagues or customers to use, this Webcast on Demand can help you create high-quality, easy-to-use code for your end users. This session demonstrates how to create professional-quality Express VIs that incorporate interactive preview panes to display data at development time, as well as how to design context help for a variety of data types. View this Webcast. Webcast: Managing Requirements and Developing Large LabVIEW Applications Take a closer look at requirements management and how to link your requirements to particular NI LabVIEW VIs, which gives you traceability from documentation to implementation. View this Webcast. Industry-Leading Researchers, NI Developers to Speak at NIWeek 2006 Summits Learn from visionaries such as Jeff Kodosky, cofounder of National Instruments and inventor of LabVIEW and Dr. Ahmad Bahai, Chief Technology Officer and Fellow, National Semiconductor, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley at the NIWeek 2006 summit keynotes. Sessions include "Graphical Design Holds the Key to Boosting Productivity," "The Roadmap to Ubiquitous Wireless Connectivity," and many more. Learn more. Support Example Code: ActiveX for Beginners This VI is a simple program using ActiveX controls to access data in an Excel file. The VI opens a spreadsheet to a specific sheet, reads a particular cell, and returns the cell's value to LabVIEW. Download this example. Example Code: RF Frequency Sweep This example demonstrates how to generate a frequency sweep at a specified power level. Download this example. Example Code: Creating a Simple Music Synthesizer This example program uses the Beep VI included in LabVIEW to create the sounds specified on the keyboard. You can customize the note length and scale octave using the front panel controls. Download this example. Example Code: Delay IMAQ Acquisition This VI acquires images at full frame rates but delays the display. Delaying the display might be useful in situations where the item you are inspecting is far away from you, and you want to delay the display of the image until the item is closer. Download this example. Example Code: Synchronized Analog Input across Multiple NI CompactDAQ Chassis This example demonstrates how to synchronize the analog inputs on two different NI CompactDAQ chassis using control signals from digital I/O modules. It uses the LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit VIs for phase comparison. Download this example.
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