Opening Keynote Recap

Dr. James Truchard - CEO, president, and cofounder of National Instruments - kicked off NIWeek 2007 on Tuesday morning by discussing the role of National Instruments LabVIEW in system design and how NI plans to take advantage of next-generation programming.

Truchard and Senior Vice President of R&D, Tim Dehne, presented NI LabVIEW 8.5, the newest version of the company's graphical programming environment, which includes the new LabVIEW Statechart Module, improved tools in the LabVIEW FPGA Module, and unique advances in multicore and real-time programming. Dehne was joined by NI developers who demonstrated many new products and technologies, including the ever-increasing bus bandwidth offered by PXI Express, NI TestStand, and National Instruments C Series modules. These products reinforce the company's progress toward "LabVIEW to the pin," a term coined by the father of LabVIEW, Jeff Kodosky, to describe the company's vision for FPGA programming.

The products and advances in commercial technologies continue to enhance the NI vision of graphical system design, empowering engineers and scientists to design, prototype, and deploy a variety of innovative applications. From digital filter design to sound and vibration test, LabVIEW users can develop their solutions on a single graphical design platform, at a lower cost and in less time than traditional approaches.

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Industry Experts Panel: Breakthrough Innovation

Discuss Innovation with Engineering and Science Leaders

The Industry Experts Panel tackles some of today's business and emerging technology topics with a fresh perspective. Attendees have the opportunity to listen to industry experts discuss how and why innovation occurs.

Inspired by Andrew Hargadon's How Breakthroughs Happen and Patty Seybold's Outside Innovation, experts and audience members explore the world of technological revolutions, questioning the process of innovation in a Q&A style session.

Join John Hanks, vice president of product marketing at National Instruments; authors Andrew Hargadon and Patty Seybold; and other industry leaders for an exciting and interactive NIWeek session.

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Paper Contest Winners Announced

Read the Winners' Full Case Studies Online

Find these and other case studies on the newly redesigned ni.com/casestudies.

Aerospace/Defense
Rugged Line Replacement Unit Field Testers Based on NI CompactRIO
Russell Blake, G Systems LP

Automotive
Performance Tire Testing Apparatus
B. Taylor Newill and Russell Aldridge, Brigham Young University

Biotechnology/Life Sciences
FPGA-Based Real-Time Feedback Control of Optical Tweezers
Anders Wallin and Heikki Ojala, University of Helsinki

Control
Digital Electro-Hydraulic Servo Controller
Vijay Jayabalan and Mondeep Durah, Captronic Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Design R&D
A Low-Cost, Expandable PXI-Based Solution for Mixed-Signal ASIC Test
Cem Karahan and N.D. "Buck" Smith, Cal-Bay Systems, Inc.

Electrical/Electronics
Starter Generator Test System
Vijay Jayabalan and Anu Kalidas, Captronic Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Manufacturing
Industrial Machine Vision Based on National Instruments Technology Goes Further in Complex Human Task Automation
Pascal Cormier and Sébastien Parent, Averna Vision & Robotics, Inc.

Mechatronics
Development of a Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot for Novel Locomotion Research and as the First U.S. Humanoid Entry to Robocup
Karl Muecke and Dr. Dennis Hong, Virginia Tech University

Prototype Test
FPGA-Based Tachometer Signal Acquisitions for Vibration Monitoring Applications
Daniel Hooks, N.D. "Buck" Smith, and Adam Citarella, Cal-Bay Systems, Inc.

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NI Announces New PXI Products

Stream Data at up to 600 MB/s
NI yesterday announced its newest PXI products, which can sustain higher data streaming rates than ever before possible with an industry-standard test and measurement platform. The new NI PXIe-5442 16-bit arbitrary waveform generator can stream from disk at the full rate of 100 MS/s (200 MB/s) for generation of arbitrary waveforms up to several terabytes in length. The NI PXIe-5442 module complements the existing NI PXIe-5122 100 MS/s, two-channel digitizer and NI PXIe-6536/7 25/50 MHz, 32-channel digital I/O modules.

The NI PXIe-8130 embedded controller delivers up to 4 GB/s of bandwidth to a PXI Express system. The controller includes a 2.3 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core processor, ExpressCard slot, and Gigabit Ethernet. In addition, the new NI 8262 module and NI HDD-8263 and HDD-8264 external RAID hard drive enclosures offer sustained, long-duration hard drive streaming rates of up to 600 MB/s. Learn more at ni.com/pxi.

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Evening at The OASIS

Don't miss the annual conference party tonight at The OASIS, a popular Lake Travis venue known for its breathtaking sunset views of the Texas hill country. Come out for dinner; dancing; and local band Skyrocket, awarded "Austin's Best Cover Band" of 2006 by the Austin Chronicle. The fun begins at 7:00 p.m. and concludes with a fireworks show at 10:30 p.m. Shuttles loop between the convention center and The OASIS from 6:15-11:00 p.m.

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