Company Profile:
National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,300 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past eight years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
Latest National Instruments Products
NI LabVIEW 8.6
August 06 2008 - National Instruments has built on the inherent parallel nature of graphical programming with the latest version of its LabVIEW graphical system design platform for control, test and embedded system development.... more
National Instruments GPS toolkit for LabVIEW
June 26 2008 - National Instruments has announced a GPS toolkit for LabVIEW which expands the RF PXI platform to include multi-satellite GPS signal simulation.... more
NI Dual Gigabit Ethernet Interface for PXI Express
June 24 2008 - National Instruments has announced its first high-performance dual gigabit Ethernet interface for PXI Express. The NI 8234 module offers 2 gigabit Ethernet ports with up to 1000 Mbyte/s transfer speeds per port for high-performance machine vision and dedicated Lan/LXI instrument control networks. ... more
NI high-performance compact fieldpoint controllers
June 11 2008 - National Instruments announces three new Compact FieldPoint controllers: the NI cFP-2220, cFP-2210 and cFP-2200 controllers include a 400 MHz PowerPC processor and Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system.... more
National Instruments ELVIS II design and prototyping platform
May 23 2008 - National Instruments introduces new version of prototyping platform for interactive, hands-on learning - ELVIS II, which is based on NI LabVIEW.... more
National Instruments launches user interface toolkit
May 19 2008 - National Instruments has introduced a graphical differencing and user interface toolkit that will be used to identify differences between models built using Simulink software from The MathWorks.... more
NI offers Graphical Differencing and User Interface Toolkit
May 09 2008 - National Instruments has announced the NI Graphical Differencing and User Interface Toolkit, a software solution that helps engineers and scientists identify differences between models built using The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink software.... more
NI announces its fastest bus-powered multifunction DAQ devices
May 08 2008 - National Instruments has announced the release of two new bus-powered M Series data acquisition (DAQ) devices for USB that deliver faster sampling rates and more digital I/O features than previously released bus-powered M Series devices for USB.... more
National Instruments embedded controllers, PXI-8104 and PXI-8183
May 07 2008 - National Instruments has announced two embedded controllers, the PXI-8104 and PXI-8183, for test, measurement and control applications. ... more
National Instruments C Series modules for data-logging apps
April 08 2008 - National Instruments adds four C Series modules for data-logging applications including vibration/acoustical data logging and in-vehicle, structural, temperature and pressure testing.... more
National Instruments introduces Sound and Vibration Tools
January 10 2008 - National Instruments has announced the NI Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite Version 6.0 and the newest 16-channel data acquisition module for sound and vibration, the NI PXI-4495.... more
NI LabWindows/CVI 8.5 development environment for embedded apps
December 06 2007 - LabWindows/CVI 8.5 provides flexible multicore programming for ANSI C development, claims National Instruments... more
National Instruments adds timing tools to range
October 31 2007 - National Instruments has added timing tools including its first PXI Express timing and synchronisation controller and a PXI module that synchronises PXI systems over GPS, Inter-Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) and IEEE 1588.... more
NI system timing tools - PXIe-6672 and PXI-6682
October 16 2007 - NI PXIe-6672 system timing controller offers synchronisation of multiple PXI Systems, NI PXI-6682 module features an integrated GPS receiver... more
National Instruments expands LabVIEW design platform
October 11 2007 - National Instruments has extended its LabVIEW 8.5 graphical system design platform to new embedded targets with the release of a module for ADI Blackfin processors 2.5 and the LabVIEW microprocessor software development kit 2.5.... more
National Instruments USB data acquisition devices
September 26 2007 - National Instruments has announced the industry's first 80-channel USB data acquisition devices, new BNC USB M Series devices and a new USB-9237 C Series module.... more
National Instruments Vision Development Module 8.5
September 05 2007 - NI Module offers new edge-detection algorithms and added support for popular machine vision applications... more
National Instruments 6½ digit multimeter
July 23 2007 - National Instruments has added a 6½-digit multimeter for PXI as a low-cost entry point for data-logging measurement. ... more
National offers ADC with 6Gsample/s interleaved sample rate
June 05 2006 - An 8-bit analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) family from National Semiconductor makes its claim for top sampling speed, delivering 6Gsample/s data capture at 3.6W ... more
National Instruments puts measurement on USB 2.0
May 02 2006 - National Instruments has introduced a USB 2.0 based data acquisition system which it claims will simplify sensor and electrical measurements from the benchtop and on the production line ... more
National Instruments adds PCI Express throughput to test
April 27 2006 - National Instruments is offering PXI chassis and controllers based on PCI Express signalling, which deliver up to 1Gbyte/s per-slot dedicated bandwidth... more
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