Powering the Smart Grid

	December 7, 2010
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Powering the Smart Grid Help Prioritize New LabVIEW Features

Smart grid technology tackles technical challenges that limit the openness, reliability, and efficiency of energy production and distribution. Reconfigurable embedded systems are ideal for meeting the most difficult smart grid challenges.

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Tech Tips

Which Industry Leaders Use LabVIEW to Improve Test?
Test engineers need to develop automated test systems faster than ever to keep up with accelerated product development cycles and globalization of design and test. Learn how leading companies are using the power and flexibility of LabVIEW to gain a competitive edge in their business.
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ecoATM Named Top 100 Innovation by Popular Science
The ecoATM Automated eCycling Station, which uses LabVIEW to process self-checkout tasks, was named one of the Top 100 Innovations of 2010 in the Green Tech category by Popular Science. The ecoATM essentially pays you to hand over your old cell phones and other consumer electronics.
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Webcast: Communicate With FPGAs Using LabWindows™/CVI
With NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) technology, you can rapidly create custom hardware circuitry using reconfigurable field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and LabVIEW tools. Learn how you can start designing sophisticated ANSI C FPGA-based systems with National Instruments.
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Looking Forward to LTE Advanced
Not long ago, 3G was the fastest network around. Looking into 2011, 3GPP’s LTE Advanced could be the first truly 4G cellular standard.
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Community Highlights

Who Won the 2010 LabVIEW Example Code Contest?
Thanks to all who submitted code to the 2010 LabVIEW Example Code Contest! Find out which codes were selected as winners for each category. Also read about the grand champion and the code that won an iPad.
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Video: Watch the MESA Robot Climb Stairs
Watch the MESA robot, controlled by NI CompactRIO and LabVIEW Robotics, climb a stark and lengthy hallway staircase.
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Sweet Apps: A Green Hot Rod Built by High School Students and Powered by LabVIEW
This is not your average high school science project. A team of students successfully converted a 1923 Ford Model T Roadster into a zero-pollution electric vehicle using LabVIEW to monitor the fuel cell.
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Example Code: Othello — Inheritance in LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming
Play this version of Othello using a VI of a chess or checker board to demonstrate the basics of inheritance in LabVIEW object-oriented programming, or just to have a little fun.
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What's New

NI Introduces New Version of LabWindows/CVI
New features in LabWindows/CVI 2010 build on the proven ANSI C platform to offer increased developer productivity and simplified FPGA communication. The software increases debugging efficiency by making it possible for developers to attach the LabWindows/CVI debugger to a running process without having to restart the program.
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NI TestStand 2010 With Enhanced Team-Based Test Software Development Tools
NI TestStand 2010 is ideal for a variety of automated test applications within telecommunications, consumer electronics, automotive, and other industries with new team-based development features including a Sequence Analyzer, a three-way file diff-and-merge utility, and enhanced integration with LabVIEW software.
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Removing Digestive Tumors With Robotic Endoscopes Controlled by LabVIEW
When providing obesity treatment or removing digestive tumors, doctors need a flexible tool to have more degrees of freedom when maneuvering an endoscope. This medical device company designed a prototype with flexible robotic arms to do just that.
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Top 5 Online Community Groups

1. LabVIEW APIs »

2. UI Interest Group »

3. NI Labs »

4. LabVIEW Career Network »

5. Large LabVIEW Application Development »

Events and Training
Virtual User Group: High-Channel-Count Synchronization Techniques in LabVIEW »

New LabVIEW Object-Oriented Design and Programming Course »

New LabVIEW Real-Time Courses »

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LabVIEW Tool of the Month
Using the CURE Pattern ID Library for LabVIEW, you can acquire data in a familiar manner, preprocess it, extract features, and forward features to the CURE engine for pattern learning and identification. CURE is a key technology used in the ecoATM recycling kiosk, and is available as a 30-day trial download on the LabVIEW Tools Network.
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NI in the Press
LabVIEW on Good Morning America: Which Shipping Company Is Most Careful With Your Packages? »

New Civionics Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring »

Software Takes On Design “Wild Cards” »

How Are You Influencing ER and Surgical Devices? »

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