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August 21, 2007
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Sensor Simulation on FPGA Hardware   Researchers Use NI LabVIEW to Create Fully Autonomous Robot
 

Learn how your automated test systems can evaluate the functionality of measurement
and control hardware by simulating real-world signals and verifying the expected response.

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Researchers at Virginia Tech used National Instruments LabVIEW to create a fully autonomous humanoid robot to study novel locomotion and serve as their entry into RoboCup, a soccer competition among autonomous robots. This application, demonstrated at NIWeek 2007, also won the NIWeek paper contest.
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Development Resources

Programming Strategies for Multicore Processing: Pipelining
Explore pipelining, a technique you can use to gain a performance increase on a multicore CPU when running an inherently serial task. With structures familiar to LabVIEW developers, such as shift registers and feedback nodes, your applications can incorporate pipelining with minor code changes. 
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Prevent Cross-Linking with the LabVIEW Project
See how LabVIEW 8.5 helps you prevent cross-linking, which occurs when a VI in memory references a different subVI than the one it was last saved with.
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Build versus Buy - Understanding the Total Cost of Embedded Design
Explore the two options for developing a new embedded controller – build or buy – as well as the technical and financial risks associated with both.
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Example Code: A Reference Application for Local Machine Control
Generate pseudo-random numbers using virtual instrumentation and a linear-feedback shift register algorithm in the LabVIEW FPGA Module.
Download this example >>

Example Code: Cannons Game Using Object-Oriented Programming
The Cannons game demonstrates the use of LabVIEW built-in, object-oriented support and emphasizes the use of encapsulation and modularity. It incorporates a picture control for basic animation of a battlefield and tanks.
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New Products and Technologies
New LabVIEW Statechart Module Powers Software Design
The release of LabVIEW 8.5 introduces a powerful new software design tool – the LabVIEW Statechart Module. With this new addition to the LabVIEW platform, programmers can design applications at a higher
level of abstraction than previously possible.
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Develop a Flexible HMI/SCADA System in LabVIEW
With an open and flexible system such as LabVIEW software and the LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control (DSC) Module, you can connect to legacy devices, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and programmable automation controllers (PACs) using one software package.
Learn more >>
 
Events

Webcast: Harness Multicore Performance with LabVIEW Graphical Programming
Examine the trend toward multicore processor-based systems and explore how LabVIEW software can increase multicore system performance without the need to understand the intricacies of parallel hardware.
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Webcast: Designing Applications with the LabVIEW Statechart Module
Learn how you can use the new LabVIEW Statechart Module to create advanced state machines that include hierarchy and concurrency to design event-based tasks such as user interfaces and state-based control.
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Join the Next LabVIEW Virtual User Group
The next LabVIEW virtual user group meeting focuses on programming multicore processors with LabVIEW. Attendees can discuss automatic multithreading in LabVIEW, optimization techniques such as data parallelism and pipelining, and debugging tools. 
Join now >>

Webcast: PXI Express and the PXI Platform
Learn about the PXI Express specification and how it enhances the PXI platform by providing high-performance features including increased bandwidth and improved synchronization with backward compatibility.
View this webcast >>

Find events in your area

 
Top Five Webcasts on ni.com

1. What's New in LabVIEW 8.5 >>

2. Connect LabVIEW to Any PLC Using OPC >>

3. Using LabVIEW for Machine Diagnostics, Portable Test, and Condition Monitoring >>

4. Creating Distributed HMI Systems with LabVIEW Touch Panel Module >>

5. Introduction to LabVIEW FPGA >>

NI in the Press


NIWeek Video: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grade Engineer-to-Be?
Read this EDN article >>

The Mind of MINDSTORMS
Read this Electronic Design article >>

NI Meets Concurrent Processing Challenges with LabVIEW Software
Read this Design News article >>

NIWeek Boasts Record Attendance
Read this Test and Measurement World article >>

LabVIEW Programming Language Gets Updates
Read this EE Times article >>

 

Community News


Test Products in NI Labs
Explore the new NI Labs, which showcases technologies from NI R&D engineers that are not quite ready for release. You can download and work with cutting-edge developments, offer product feedback, get answers to your questions, and learn about recent successes and struggles.
Explore NI Labs >>

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