Build vs. Buy: The Total Cost of Embedded Design

	March 8, 2011
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Build vs. Buy: The Total Cost of Embedded Design 4 Ways to Incorporate FPGAs in Test Applications

The Graphical System Design Calculator helps you see the financial differences between building a custom embedded solution versus buying an off-the-shelf system.

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Share: You can use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to reduce test time and perform tests not previously possible without custom hardware.

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Tech Tips

Webcast: Wireless Sensor Networks – Technology, Standards, and LabVIEW
Learn more about the applications, technologies, and components used in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Find out what is available today and how you can use LabVIEW to easily integrate wireless measurements into your existing wired system.
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Advanced Application Development With LabVIEW
Engineers use LabVIEW to build some of the largest and most complex applications in the world. Learn best practices for applying software engineering tools and principles when developing with LabVIEW to ensure quality and reliability.
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What Is Data Acquisition?
While each data acquisition (DAQ) system has unique functionality to serve application-specific requirements, all systems share common components that include signals, sensors, signal conditioning, DAQ hardware, and a computer with software.
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3 Benefits of Combining an FPGA With an I/O Channel
Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and FPGA technology continues to advance, which reduces costs and improves performance.
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Community Highlights

Join the LabVIEW 2011 Beta Program
NI is seeking participants for the LabVIEW 2011 beta program who download the beta version of LabVIEW 2011 and try out new features, report bugs, and track progress toward software improvements.
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Example Code: Mini Animation Package
You can use this simple 2D drawing and animation tool to bring your doodles to life by playing them at a configurable frame rate.
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Video: Bringing Robotics to Rural Countries
See how NI gives back to the community by teaching robotics to children with LEGO^® Education^TM WeDo kits in Cambodia. If you believe in the power of LEGO, vote now for our video to be included in Boston College's 2011 Corporate Citizenship Film Festival!
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Sweet Apps: Have You Ever Heard of Airborne Wind?
Windlift, an NI Green Engineering Grant recipient, is developing portable airborne wind energy to provide an energy alternative to diesel generators in postconflict reconstruction, disaster relief, and third-world development.
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What's New

What's New in PXI
PXI is a PC-based platform and open industry standard that can meet the demands of complex instrumentation systems. Every year, NI develops new PXI modules that can reduce costs and increase performance of your measurement and automation systems.
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Blind Driver Car Takes a Spin at the Daytona Racetrack
A car created by Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory and powered with NI hardware and software took a historic spin around the Daytona racetrack. The car was driven by Mark Anthony Riccobono, a blind executive for The National Federation of the Blind.
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NI Releases LabVIEW 2010 Service Pack
LabVIEW 2010 Service Pack 1 is a scheduled upgrade that includes bug fixes and improved stability for LabVIEW 2010. The release is an exclusive update for members of the NI Standard Service and Volume License programs and can be downloaded now from ni.com.
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Top 5 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Tutorials

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Events and Training
User Group: Achieve Hardware Independence With an Object-Oriented Hardware Abstraction Layer »

Deadline Approaching: Submit Your Paper to the Graphical System Design Achievement Awards »

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NI in the Press
Technology Will Drive Business Process Innovations »

Deterministic Networks: Synchronizing Standard Gains Steam »

Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em! »

Back to Edison, Back to Innovation »

Featured LabVIEW Add-On
Cure Pattern ID Toolkit
You can use this add-on by Neural ID from the LabVIEW Tools Network to quickly create automated inspection, anomaly detection, sensor fusion, machine vision, and other complex pattern identification applications.
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