Best Practices for Software Development

	September 6, 2011
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LabVIEW contains all of the engineering elements used to build today's most challenging systems. Learn how you can apply best practices for software development and source code management to a system that is designed and built with LabVIEW.

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Tech Tips

Video: The History of LabVIEW
Jeff Kodosky, the “Father of LabVIEW,” looks back at the creation of graphical programming and shares fundamental programming concepts vital to the next 25 years of graphical system design for meeting the most demanding application challenges.
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Head to Head: NI PXIe-5665 Versus Traditional Box Instruments
See how the NI PXIe-5665 vector signal analyzer compares with traditional box instruments in terms of speed and performance characteristics like linearity and dynamic range.
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Best Practices for Designing Your Machine
Learn step-by-step best practices for designing your next machine. See how in-depth application examples illustrate the approaches successful designers have implemented.
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Strategies for Signals Intelligence From Antennas to Analysis
Explore techniques to analyze intermittent RF signals and how signals intelligence applications often require sophisticated and highly customized signal processing methods to characterize the power, frequency, and phase of interference signals.
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Community Highlights

Tic-Tac-Toe in LabVIEW
No need for paper and pen to play this classic game. Now you can play it in LabVIEW.
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Sweet Apps: 3, 2, 1, Blastoff
Andy Milluzzi created a 1:50 scale model of the United States Space Shuttle using six LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT kits and more than 8,000 LEGO Technic parts to replicated it down to the arm that extends off the shuttle.
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Example Code: 2D Array Sorter
This example shows how to sort a 2D array based on the values specified in one of the columns. The example sorts the rows in ascending order, but could be easily modified to descend instead.
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Progress Bar API for LabVIEW
This API allows you to create an instance of a progress bar and returns a notifier reference that increments it (and optionally displays the name of the current item loading).
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What's New

Wireless Structural Monitoring of the Cathedral of L'Aquila
Engineers used LabVIEW and wireless sensor networks to build a remote diagnostic system to help rehabilitate and partially reconstruct the Cathedral of L'Aquila, which was seriously damaged by a devastating earthquake in April 2009.
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NI Honors 18 Companies With 2011 Global Supplier Awards
NI presented the awards to suppliers who, through their commitment to excellence, continuous improvement, and innovative practices, delivered outstanding performance within the NI global supply chain.
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Stanford Students Learn Hands-On Wireless Communications Concepts
With the new NI Universal Software Radio Peripheral and LabVIEW software-defined radio platform, students use real-world to apply hands-on wireless communications concepts in the lab as part of the sophomore-level electrical engineering course at Stanford University.
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Top 5 NI Labs Ideas

1. EtherNet/IP Driver for Industrial Communication »

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3. NI Biomedical Startup Kit 3.0 »

4. NI Multisim: Custom Spanish Version »

5. LabVIEW Multisim Connectivity Toolkit (Beta version 0.2), Now With ExpressVI »

Events and Training
Register for the NI Technical Symposiums »

LabVIEW Under the Hood: Reduce Memory Usage and Speed Up Any Application »

Register for NIWeek 2012 »

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Question of the Month
Did you know LabVIEW turns 25 this year? What’s the earliest version you used and what were you creating?
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NI in the Press
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Engineers Develop Haptic Feedback System for Keyhole Surgery »

MythBusters: Favorite Technologies »

Featured LabVIEW Add-On
BitMan
New in the LabVIEW Tools Network, BitMan is an image processing framework and library. The library contains prebuilt image filters. Use the framework to design your own image processing functions specific to your application.
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