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Getting Your
Data Into
Microsoft Excel
  5 Ways to Fail
When Prototyping
a New Design
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There are many different ways to move data from LabVIEW into Microsoft Excel. Explore some of the available options to help you find the right one for your application.

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  The cellphone and electric car are revolutionary designs that change the way we live. Learn pitfalls to digital prototyping so you can avoid them on your next revolutionary project. 

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Tech Tips

Optimize Your Measurement Speed: PXI vs. Rack and Stack
Explore the fundamental technologies that let PXI test equipment achieve measurement times that are 5X to 10X faster than traditional rack-and-stack instruments.
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LabVIEW Web UI Builder Overview
Creating Web user interfaces has traditionally required experience in Web programming languages, an uncommon skill among engineers. See how you can use the LabVIEW Web UI Builder to create lightweight Web applications using graphical programming.
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The Future of Condition Monitoring
The science and practice of condition monitoring is well understood, but prediction technologies (or prognostics) remain a science under development. Learn about techniques, case studies, and the future of prognostics in the market place. 
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NI Structural Test Solutions: Any Structure, Any Test
NI combines its industrial control and instrumentation expertise with LabVIEW to deliver the industry’s easiest to use and highest performance solutions for structural test.
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Community Highlights

Example Code: Find SXSW 2011 Artists in iTunes
If you missed SXSW, you can still find and listen to your favorite bands that played at the music conference this year. Download this code to browse your iTunes music library for SXSW artists. 
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LabVIEW Helps Engineer During Rolling Power Outages
With NI hardware, LabVIEW, and Twitter API, an engineer in Japan built an application to monitor backup power supplies and broadcast voltage info on Twitter so he can run continuous tests without having to worry about random power outages.
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Podcast: Interview With a LabVIEW Developer
VI Shots interviews the fastest LabVIEW developer around, Darren Nattinger, in this podcast. Hear some of Darren's tips and tricks so you can be just as fast.
Listen now »

Integrate Graphical Diff With Subversion Source Code Control
LabVIEW developers often ask how to configure Apache Subversion or any source code control tool to automatically call the LabVIEW graphical differencing tool. Get answers, find resources, and provide feedback for this utility.
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What's New

It's Electric! Students Prototype an Electric Buggy
Students learn the principles of real-time command, control, and supervision using NI CompactRIO and LabVIEW to control and monitor an electric buggy.
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Testing 3D and HD Video TVs With NI FlexRIO
Did you just buy a new HD or 3D TV? With new technology such as Alfamation's FlexMedia video test device based on NI FlexRIO, you can feel confident that your new HD or 3D TV was quality tested with a high-performance solution.
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NI Recognized With a Boeing Performance Excellence Award
NI recently earned a 2010 Boeing Performance Excellence Award, an annual honor from the Boeing Company that recognizes suppliers who have achieved superior performance. NI supplies Boeing with software and hardware for their automated test applications.
Read more »

Top 5 LabVIEW Add-Ons
1. VI Package Manager »
2. OpenG Libraries »
3. Biometric Login Toolkit  »
4. SQLiteVIEW »
5. PDF Toolkit for LabVIEW »

Events and Training
Register for the Smart Grid Webcast Series, April 19-21 »
2nd Annual Certified LabVIEW Architect Summit a Huge Success! »
User Group: Simplifying LabVIEW Data Storage, Processing, and Management »
Register for NIWeek 2011 »

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Question of the Week
What's the coolest thing you've done with LabVIEW?
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NI in the Press 
Fiber-Optics Break Rules of Conventional Sensing »
Will Multicore Save the Day? »
4G World: The Chicago Fall Classic Returns »

The Benefits of Real-Time Test in Embedded System Design »

 

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