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Top Stories	December 5, 2006	Issue at a Glance Company and Product News • NI LabWindows™/CVI 8.1 Boosts Cross-Platform Communication • Sylvania Develops Control System Using Virtual Instrumentation • CompactRIO Goes Wireless with New Third-Party Modules • New, Popular Instrument Drivers Available • Check Out NI Podcasts Development Resources • Tips for Maximizing Throughput in an Automated Test System • OFDM and Multichannel Communications Systems • Identify a Nonlinear Model with the NI LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit • Example Code: NI-HSDIO Start and Reference Triggers • Example Code: Analog Input to Control Velocity of Motion Events • Strategies for Building Intelligent Maintenance Systems • Webcast: LabVIEW for Aerospace Test and Design • Build a Complete Automated Test System Using LabVIEW - AUSTIN, TX - 12/14/2006 • Ultiboard Basics - AUSTIN, TX - 12/15/2006 • Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning - AUSTIN, TX - 12/18/2006 Of Recent Interest • Airbus Uses NI Products to Improve Wind-Tunnel Test Data Processing • 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.
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Company and Product News NI LabWindows™/CVI 8.1 Boosts Cross-Platform Communication LabWindows/CVI 8.1, the latest version of the proven ANSI C integrated development environment for test, measurement, and control applications, features new, easy-to-use distributed communication and control tools to help engineers maximize their productivity. Learn more. Sylvania Develops Control System Using Virtual Instrumentation Sylvania used NI vision and motion control technology to build an accurate and flexible research and development production machine for a new, smaller type of metal halide lamp. Learn more. CompactRIO Goes Wireless with New Third-Party Modules Industry leaders have developed custom modules for the National Instruments CompactRIO platform, adding a wide variety of functionality to the platform for automotive, aerospace, and military in-vehicle applications; wireless communications; and position monitoring for mobile applications. Learn more. New, Popular Instrument Drivers Available Instrument drivers provide a high-level programming interface, eliminating the need to learn an instrument's low-level messaging, which can often save you days or even weeks of programming time. Get the most recent additions to the Instrument Driver Network at ni.com/idnet. Learn more. Check Out NI Podcasts Listen to and download podcast presentations in a variety of subject areas given by NI engineers. Topics include Microsoft Windows Vista, NI LabVIEW architecture, and more. Download NI podcasts. Development Resources Tips for Maximizing Throughput in an Automated Test System This in-depth white paper provides strategies for maximizing system throughput, including bus benchmarking, multicore processors, and hardware synchronization. Learn more. OFDM and Multichannel Communications Systems Learn about the recent evolution of communications systems into various mechanisms that effectively use the frequency spectrum. More specifically, see how you can use frequency division multiplexing and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing to effectively use the frequency spectrum. Learn more. Identify a Nonlinear Model with the NI LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit The LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit provides parametric and nonparametric model estimation methods to identify LTI models. This application note guides you through using the LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit to identify and validate a nonlinear model. Learn more. Example Code: NI-HSDIO Start and Reference Triggers This example demonstrates how to acquire a digital signal that is initiated by a hardware start trigger and stopped by a hardware reference trigger. Download this example. Example Code: Analog Input to Control Velocity of Motion This VI has an onboard program that continously reads the ADC Channel 1 on a motion controller, and then uses this value to update the velocity of motion. Download this example. Events Strategies for Building Intelligent Maintenance Systems This Webcast series is intended for reliability and maintenance professionals who are tasked with developing consistent and cost-effective predictive maintenance programs. View these Webcasts. Webcast: LabVIEW for Aerospace Test and Design Join NI for a special Webcast on using LabVIEW 8.20 for military and aerospace applications. See who is using LabVIEW for mil/aero test, how it shortens development time for instrumentation and control systems, and which application challenges you can solve using LabVIEW. View this Webcast. Build a Complete Automated Test System Using LabVIEW - AUSTIN, TX - 12/14/2006 Register for this Event Ultiboard Basics - AUSTIN, TX - 12/15/2006 Register for this Event Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning - AUSTIN, TX - 12/18/2006 Register for this Event
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