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Top Stories	November 7, 2006	Issue at a Glance Company and Product News • PCI Express Frame Grabbers Available for Every Major Camera Standard • Multiple Wireless Standards - One Platform • Intelligent DAQ Speeds Defibrillator Testing • Deploy Smaller Executables with NI-DAQmx 8.3 • NI CEO Gives Keynote Address at National Science Foundation Workshop Development Resources • The Digital Influence on Analog Technologies • Making Sense of Competing Bus Technologies for Instrument Control • Developing Digital Communication Interfaces with LabVIEW FPGA • Example Code: NI-IMAQ I/O Simple Loop • Example Code: Generating a 40 MHz Pulse Train with Counter Output Events • Webcast: Virtual Instrumentation in the Medical Device Life Cycle • Webcast: Developing Custom Design Solutions • LabWindows/CVI Basics I - AUSTIN, TX - 11/27/2006 • Certified LabVIEW Developer Exam - AUSTIN, TX - 11/28/2006 • Certified LabVIEW Architect Exam - AUSTIN, TX - 11/28/2006 Of Recent Interest • How to Minimize Errors for Low-Current Measurements • Top Five White Papers on ni.com 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.
Embedded Design Simplified with New Controller
The new NI cRIO-9012 high-performance, real-time controller is based on the Freescale MPC5200 processor built on Power Architecture technology and Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system to deliver fast performance while maintaining the ruggedness, reliability, and low cost of the NI CompactRIO platform. Learn more.
USB Finds Its Place on the Factory Floor
Technologies that are popular in the PC industry usually end up making their way to the factory floor. Since its release in 1996, USB has become the standard bus for connecting to computer peripherals. Today, it is readily available on industrial PCs, single-board computers, and touch panel HMIs. Learn more.
Company and Product News PCI Express Frame Grabbers Available for Every Major Camera Standard With the new NI PCIe-8255R, NI PCIe-8231, and NI PCIe-1427 frame grabbers, National Instruments now offers support for every major digital camera bus, including IEEE 1394b, Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) Vision, and Camera Link. Learn more. Multiple Wireless Standards - One Platform View this presentation, given by NI CEO Dr. James Truchard at NIWeek 2006, to learn about emerging wireless standards and PXI as a flexible test platform that meets the needs of fast-changing wireless devices. View this presentation. Intelligent DAQ Speeds Defibrillator Testing Using the flexiblilty and parallelism of the LabVIEW FPGA Module, Medtronic increased the types of HV defibrillators it could test and reduced the overall test time for 12 devices by 66 percent. Learn more. Deploy Smaller Executables with NI-DAQmx 8.3 With NI-DAQmx 8.3, you can deploy five different run-time versions of NI-DAQmx, ranging from the full-featured 372 MB run-time engine to a size-optimized 89 MB run-time engine. Learn more. NI CEO Gives Keynote Address at National Science Foundation Workshop Dr. James Truchard, CEO, president and cofounder of National Instruments, gave the keynote address Oct. 16 at the National Science Foundation-sponsored Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems in Austin, Texas. Learn more. Development Resources The Digital Influence on Analog Technologies Explore three digital technologies that have improved analog measurements, including higher-performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), digital isolators, and reconfigurable field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Learn more. Making Sense of Competing Bus Technologies for Instrument Control See how to choose the right instrument control bus for your test application and examine the differences between a modular instrumentation platform and a traditional instrumentation platform. Learn more. Developing Digital Communication Interfaces with LabVIEW FPGA Engineers developing test applications with unsupported or custom digital communication protocols can use the LabVIEW FPGA Module to quickly implement or prototype different communication interfaces on FPGA-based R Series reconfigurable I/O hardware. Learn more. Example Code: NI-IMAQ I/O Simple Loop This VI contains independent loops that can run at different rates on an NI-IMAQ I/O FPGA device. It demonstrates how multiple loops can run at the same time with different loop rates and shows how you can alter values in each loop. Download this example. Example Code: Generating a 40 MHz Pulse Train with Counter Output This example demonstrates how to generate a 40 MHz pulse train using any board that has an 80 MHz timebase. Download this example. Events Webcast: Virtual Instrumentation in the Medical Device Life Cycle Understand the phases of the medical device life cycle by exploring the relevance and applicability of National Instruments hardware and software technology in this industry. View this Webcast. Webcast: Developing Custom Design Solutions Learn how Tektronix instrumentation combined with NI software is meeting these needs and how you can develop your own SignalExpress plug-ins in LabVIEW for use with Tektronix oscilloscopes and signal generators. View this Webcast. LabWindows/CVI Basics I - AUSTIN, TX - 11/27/2006 Register for this Event Certified LabVIEW Developer Exam - AUSTIN, TX - 11/28/2006 Register for this Event Certified LabVIEW Architect Exam - AUSTIN, TX - 11/28/2006 Register for this Event
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