Latest Features and Related Products for Real-Time

New Features of the NI LabVIEW 8.5 Real-Time Module

• Multiple CPU support for increased performance on targets using symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
• Timed loop CPU assignment for optimizing application execution on systems with multiple CPUs
• Updated Execution Trace Toolkit for trace analysis and visual debugging of real-time applications
• Linear algebra performance improvements and jitter reduction in mathematics and signal processing functions
• Shared variable communication improvements and enhancements to the Multiple Variable Editor
• Quicker real-time deployment with the ability to create a start-up executable with one click from the LabVIEW Project
• Onscreen CPU monitor to display CPU utilization information when the target is connected to a monitor

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Learn about the New Features of LabVIEW Real-Time

Explore Powerful New Features in LabVIEW Real-Time

Take a comprehensive look at all the new features of National Instruments LabVIEW Real-Time, such as support for multicore processors, improved debugging with the LabVIEW Real-Time Execution Trace Toolkit 2.0, a new CPU monitor utility, file system improvements, enhancements to communication using shared variables, and more.

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Learn What's New in the LabVIEW Real-Time Execution Trace Toolkit

With the LabVIEW Real-Time Execution Trace Toolkit, developers can interactively analyze and benchmark thread and VI execution, as well as optimize performance by identifying memory allocation, sleep spans, and resource contention. Learn about the enhancements introduced with LabVIEW 8.5, including performance improvements to quickly analyze traces, support for multicore application debugging, and more.

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Develop High-Performance Real-Time Systems with Multicore Technology

LabVIEW 8.5 Real-Time introduces SMP. With SMP, you can take advantage of multicore systems with your real-time applications. Learn the fundamentals of this technology and how you can apply it to fully harness multicore advancements.

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General LabVIEW Real-Time Features

Building Real-Time Distributed Systems with the LabVIEW Project

The LabVIEW Project is a new development feature designed to help you easily manage real-time applications. A LabVIEW Project will display the host and all real-time targets within your system, so you can organize your source code and build specifications. You now can open and run code on different targets simultaneously to debug your application quickly. To quickly build a LabVIEW Real-Time project, use the Real-Time Project Wizard to dynamically generate code based on proven architectures.

Manage Distributed Systems with the LabVIEW Project

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Accelerate Development with the Real-Time Project Wizard

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Real-Time Communication with the LabVIEW Shared Variable

LabVIEW provides access to a wide variety of technologies for creating distributed applications. The shared variable introduced in LabVIEW 8 is a major step forward in simplifying the programming necessary for such applications.

Simplify Real-Time Communication with the LabVIEW Shared Variable

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Performance Considerations when using the LabVIEW Shared Variable

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Deterministic Communication over Ethernet

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Precise Software Timing with LabVIEW Real-Time

LabVIEW 7.1 introduced the Timed Loop to easily create multirate real-time applications. LabVIEW 8 then built upon the technology by introduced by the LabVIEW timed structures by adding support for individually timed frames with microsecond deadlines. View the resources below to learn how these timing structures can be used to create precise software timing, then see how the Execution Trace Tool can verify those timing conditions are met.

Create Multirate Real-Time Applications with the Timed Loop

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Enhanced Timing Structures for Individually Timed Frames

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Verify Timing Conditions are Met with the Execution Trace Tool

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System Deployment and Replication

Replicate Real-Time Systems for Scalability

Use system replication tools to create backup images of real-time targets and replicate them.

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Validate and Convert a Desktop PC to a Real-Time Target

LabVIEW Real-Time simplifies the process of validating and converting a standard desktop or industrial PC into a LabVIEW Real-Time target. Download the free desktop validator to ensure your PC can serve as a LabVIEW Real-time target. Also see how you can create a USB boot drive to quickly boot your PC into a reliable real-time system programmable with LabVIEW.

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More Real-Time Features and Related Technologies

Connecting Real-Time Systems to I/O with Integrated Hardware Drivers

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Design, Prototype, and Deploy a Real-Time Controller

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Simplify Real-Time and FPGA Programming with the FPGA Wizard

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Create Powerful User Interfaces for Models Developed in The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink® Software Environment

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Deploy Models Developed in the Simulink® Environment to NI Real-Time Targets

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What's New in Real-Time?

New features in LabVIEW 8.20 Real-Time Validator Utility to Verify a Desktop PC Meets Requirements to Become a Real-Time Target USB support for booting Desktop PC Real-Time Targets Storage support for USB drives Optimized algorithms for Single-point Data Acquisition More efficient Interthread Communication System Replication Tools to Reproduce a Real-Time system on Multiple Systems Faster PID Algorithms from the PID Toolkit FPGA Wizard to quickly architect Real-Time and FPGA code Control Design enhancements with Simulation Interface Toolkit and Simulation Module

Features introduced in LabVIEW 8 Real-Time LabVIEW Project integration and simultaneous host and target development LabVIEW shared variable integration and multivariable editor Modbus TCP I/O server Timed sequence and Timed loop with frames Enhanced Application Builder Improved RT error log Debugging executables Microsecond timing for all real-time targets Multiple network interface support for PXI and PC

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