A Leader in Virtual Instrumentation
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For 30 years, National Instruments has revolutionized the way engineers and scientists in industry, government, and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control, and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, PCI Express, USB, and Ethernet.
With virtual instrumentation, engineers use graphical programming software to create user-defined solutions that meet their specific needs - very different from the proprietary, fixed functionality of traditional instruments. Additionally, virtual instrumentation capitalizes on the ever-increasing performance of personal computers. For example, in test, measurement, and control, engineers have used virtual instrumentation to downsize automated test equipment (ATE) while experiencing up to a 10 times increase in productivity gains at a fraction of the cost of traditional instrument solutions. Last year 25,000 companies in 90 countries invested in more than 6 million virtual instrumentation channels from National Instruments.
Productive Software
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National Instruments increases the productivity of engineers and scientists in developing test, control, and design systems by providing software products for a wide range of functionality. NI LabVIEW is the graphical development environment for creating flexible and scalable test, measurement, and control applications rapidly and at minimal cost. With LabVIEW, engineers and scientists interface with real-world signals, analyze data for meaningful information, and share results and applications. Intuitive block diagrams in NI LabVIEW make it easy to develop custom applications while taking advantage of the PC for processing, display, and device connectivity.
Modular Hardware
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By integrating commercially available silicon and bus technologies with innovative designs, NI data acquisition (DAQ) products continue to improve measurement speed and accuracy while reducing costs for engineers and scientists. NI multifunction DAQ devices are available on the most widely used buses, including PCI, PCI Express, PXI, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), and USB, and work with the industry's most popular operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
For measurements that require higher performance, resolution, or speeds, engineers use NI modular instruments, which combine stand-alone instrument quality and measurement capabilities with the flexibility and scalability of NI data acquisition products, to offer integrated timing and synchronization resources, as well as the latest commercial technologies such as ADCs, DACs, FPGAs, and PC buses. Using NI modular instruments with powerful NI LabVIEW software, test and design engineers can create user-defined measurement systems that deliver greater flexibility, accuracy, throughput, and synchronization compared to traditional systems.
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