Evaluate Control Design and Simulation with NI LabVIEW

Step One: Start the Download

Expected Time: 6 hours to download all components (with a broadband connection)

Download NI LabVIEW Development System

LabVIEW Professional Development System
NI LabVIEW Development System is a graphical programming environment used by millions of engineers and scientists to develop sophisticated measurement, test, and control systems. The LabVIEW platform is scalable across multiple targets and OSs, and, since its introduction in 1986, it has become an industry leader.
Download LabVIEW (1.54 GB)

Note: In order to download and evaluate the LabVIEW add-on Modules and Toolkits shown below, you must have a purchased or evaluation version of LabVIEW Development System installed.

Download Control Design Software

LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module
This module allows you to analyze open-loop model behavior, design closed-loop controllers, simulate online and offline systems, and conduct physical implementations. Download Module (576 MB)

Download Developing and Deploying to Real-Time Targets Software

LabVIEW Real-Time Module
This module is a complete solution for creating reliable, stand-alone embedded systems with a graphical programming approach.
Download Module (1.04 GB)

Download Developing and Deploying to FPGAs

LabVIEW FPGA Module
This module delivers graphical development for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips on NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware targets.
Download Module (513 MB)

FPGA Compile Farm Toolkit
This toolkit adds sophisticated control algorithms to your instrumentation software development system.
Download Toolkit (248 MB)

We also offer:

• Download LabVIEW for 64-bit systems (1.57 GB) - Do I need the 64-bit version of LabVIEW?
• Download LabVIEW for Mac OS X (592 MB)

Step Two: Watch Short Videos While You Download

Expected Time: 0.5 hours

These short videos will give you a good idea of the basics of getting around inside LabVIEW. Launching a video will not interrupt your download.

• Introduction to the LabVIEW Environment (3:21)
• Dataflow Programming in LabVIEW (4:04)
• Creating Loops in LabVIEW (4:08)
• Find Existing Code in the Example Finder (3:23)
• Getting Started with NI LabVIEW (9:16)

Step Three: Installation and Getting Started Help

Expected Time: 3 hours

If you need more help with installation, drivers or graphical programming - start here: ni.com/gettingstarted.