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September 16, 2008
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Address Demanding Applications with FPGAs   Optimizing Cyclists’ Performance with LabVIEW
 
Learn how you can significantly optimize your test systems through continued advancements within the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module and PXI FPGA targets.

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  See how engineers created an integrated, real-time monitoring and display system for a wind tunnel that sets a new standard in competitive cycling and training.

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Development Resources

Automatically Clean Up LabVIEW Block Diagrams
With the Block Diagram Cleanup tool introduced in LabVIEW 8.6, you can improve the layout of an entire block diagram instantly without manually moving a single wire or object.
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Five Trends in Automated Test
Learn about five key trends that affect the way you develop tests, both today and in the future.
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Example Code: Tic-Tac-Toe
With this VI, you can play the classic tic-tac-toe game against your computer or with a friend.
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LabVIEW MathScript Multimedia Demonstrations
Explore some of the features and functions of LabVIEW MathScript, including working interactively with LabVIEW MathScript and integrating textual LabVIEW MathScript programming with graphical dataflow programming.
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LabWindows™/CVI 8.5.1 Bug Fix Information
NI LabWindows/CVI 8.5.1 fixes various bugs in Version 8.5 including incorrect plotting behavior when other controls overlap the strip chart graph area.
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New Products and Technologies

New 26.5 GHz PXI Synthetic Instrument
This new synthetic instrument, created in collaboration with BAE Systems and Phase Matrix Inc., is based on five new 3U PXI Express RF/microwave downconverter modules that can operate over a frequency range from 100 kHz to 26.5 GHz.
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Helping Premature Infants Learn to Feed
Learn how researchers used graphical system design to teach babies how to coordinate sucking, swallowing, and breathing for oral feeding to greatly increase their survival chances.
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Studying Locomotion of Amputees Using Prostheses
See how engineers used NI Multisim software to create a portable, wearable device to conduct gait analysis and study human locomotion of amputees using prostheses.
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LabVIEW Communicates to Environmental Monitoring Sensors
With this new API, LabVIEW users can interface with environmental monitoring sensors that communicate via SDI-12, a serial-based communications protocol optimized for battery-powered intelligent sensors.
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Webcasts and Events

Webcast: LabVIEW Web Services
Develop custom clients in standard Web languages such as HTML, JavaScript, and Flash to display information and control LabVIEW and LabVIEW Real-Time applications from any device that can access the Web.
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Webcast: Wireless Machine Condition Monitoring
See how you can use LabVIEW and NI C Series I/O modules to take simple and secure wireless measurements.
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Webcast: Did You Know LabVIEW Could Drive a Car?
Learn how students from Virginia Tech won third place in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge by using graphical system design to design and control their autonomous vehicle.
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Webcast: Monitoring with LabVIEW and PACs
Learn about features in LabVIEW for creating a monitoring and measurement system, including the use of history and concurrency, state hierarchy, debugging techniques, and code generation options.
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Top Five LabVIEW Statechart Tools
1. Webcast: Graphical System Design with LabVIEW Statecharts »
2. Developing Applications with the LabVIEW Statechart Module »
3. Build a Hybrid Control System with LabVIEW Statechart and Control Design and Simulation Tools »
4. Programming FPGAs with LabVIEW Statecharts »
5. LabVIEW Statechart Online Example Programs »

NI in the Press
Using Hybrid Test Systems »
Measure Inefficiencies Accurately, Then Fix Them »
The Future of Automation »
Recycle, Reduce Energy Costs »

Community News
Play the LabVIEW Missile Defense Game
This example program uses the LabVIEW Statechart Module to recreate the classic Atari game "Missile Command."
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IP Corner
Efficient Development and Debugging with LabVIEW FPGA
Explore how development techniques in the LabVIEW FPGA Module are significantly different from those in LabVIEW for Windows or the LabVIEW Real-Time Module.
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