by Todd Walter, National Instruments If the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) takes off, machines will depend on free flowing data within and between other machines. Updates to standard Ethernet will support these needs. In the U.S. alone industrial machines are an over $200-billion market. This competitive market has undergone an evolution in the last…
NI PXIe-5667 Receiver Delivers Measurement Performance Challenges
National Instruments announced the NI PXIe-5667 spectrum monitoring receiver to address radio monitoring, interference detection, spectrum regulation and related applications in line with ITU recommendations. Coupled with NI FlexRIO and the NI LabVIEW FPGA Module, the NI PXIe-5667 can perform real-time analysis of RF signals such as continuous spectrum monitoring, spectrogram and advanced signal processing […]
NI Releases NI 5791 RF transceiver adapter module for NI FlexRIO
National Instruments commercially released the NI 5791 RF transceiver adapter module for NI FlexRIO, which is currently being used in multiple cutting-edge research projects on 5G technologies. The module forms a powerful SDR solution when paired with an NI FlexRIO FPGA module for real-time, user-designed processing. Through triggering mechanisms provided by the PXI platform, users […]
National Instruments is big on global citizenship
The National Instruments Co. (NI) provides integrated software and hardware to scientists and engineers. Founded in 1976, three college students (James Truchard, PhD, Jeff Kodosky, and Bill Nowlin) developed this technology-based enterprise. The company’s instrumentation hardware and graphical system design software convert standard PCs into industrial automation and test and measurement systems. These “virtual instruments” can […]
National Instruments is big on global citizenship
The National Instruments Co. (NI) provides integrated software and hardware to scientists and engineers. Founded in 1976, three college students (James Truchard, PhD, Jeff Kodosky, and Bill Nowlin) developed this technology-based enterprise. The company’s instrumentation hardware and graphical system design software convert standard PCs into industrial automation and test and measurement systems. These “virtual instruments” can […]
5 Key Questions For Choosing a Measurement Bus
By Chris Delvizis, Product Marketing Manager in DAQ at National Instruments, [email protected] With plenty of options for the data acquisition device and bus system, selecting the right combination is a challenge. Here’s a look at the most common PC bus options and the technical considerations to keep in mind when choosing the right bus for…
How to choose the right DAQ hardware for your measurement system
Design World Senior Editor Evan Yares speaks with Chris Delvizis, Product Manager for National Instruments, about how to choose the right DAQ hardware for your measurement system. Delvizis explains about the different type of DAQ devices that are available, and talks about the important factors you need to understand, including signal conditioning, sampling rate, resolution,…
NI Week 2013 Recap, Part 2
This year’s National Instruments’ NI Week in Austin, Texas was the biggest yet, with more than 3,000 attendees descending on the Live Music Capital of the World, turning it into the international capital for graphical system design. Following are some thoughts from four of our editors who attended the event. Paul J. Heney Editorial Director…
ITI Becomes Certified National Instruments Alliance Partner
ITI has become a certified National Instruments Alliance Partner as of April 20th 2010. Therewith, the company expands its cooperation with National Instruments, a leader in control design and embedded systems, on holistic solutions for the design and test of mechatronics systems. ITI strengthened its cooperation with National Instruments in the field of virtual system…
Make Better Prototypes Faster
By Jamie Brettle, Embedded Software Product Manager, National Instruments Today, a key task for innovators is to test and validate ideas quickly, and beat your competition to market. The Internet enables us to easily share data and connect with others using text, image, music and video. Each year, as bandwidth and computing power increase and…
Are Wireless Sensor Networks Really Ready for Industry?
By Laura Carrabine, Senior Editor and Leslie Langnau, Managing Editor For industrial applications, wireless sensor networks are not quite as easy to install as the wireless connectivity on your personal computer. Industry experts speak out on what is needed for wireless operation. Despite the buzz about wireless sensor networks in the process world, where are…
New Tools for Improving System Performance
National Instruments (NI) recently launched new products including a suite of I/O modules for expanding measurement communication capabilities of its single-board reconfigurable I/O (RIO) embedded control and data acquisition devices. They combine a real-time processor, reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and onboard analog and digital I/O on a single printed circuit board (PCB). Single-board RIO…
National Instruments’ FlexRIO
National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) introduces a new family of open, FPGA-based hardware for the PXI platform. The NI FlexRIO product family is the industry’s first commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution to provide engineers with the flexibility of NI LabVIEW FPGA technology combined with high-speed, instrument-class I/O. With NI FlexRIO, engineers can add custom signal processing algorithms…
National Instruments’ CompactRIO Selected for Robot System
FIRST Championship — FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit organization inspiring young people to be science and technology leaders, has selected the National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) CompactRIO embedded control platform as its next-generation FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) robot controller. With this platform, high school students will create advanced robots starting…
Design Custom Motion Controllers for Stepper, Servo Motors with NI LabVIEW
National Instruments announced the latest version of the NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW, the revolutionary software that empowers machine builders and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to create customized motion controllers using software and deploy them for any NI hardware platform. OEMs and machine builders can use a range of pre-built motion functions and control algorithms…
National Instruments Introduces the LabVIEW Digital Filter Design Toolkit 8.20
National Instruments announced the latest version of the NI LabVIEW Digital Filter Design Toolkit, a comprehensive collection of tools for designing and implementing digital filters. As a part of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform, the Digital Filter Design Toolkit delivers features — including new text-based MathScript functions for advanced filter design, new support for…
NI LabVIEW Drivers for Wireless Sensor Networks
National Instruments announced new LabVIEW drivers for wireless sensor networks, giving engineers and scientists working with these devices the ability to fully integrate their ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4 or proprietary wireless sensors into the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical development environment. The free driver software works with sensors from three wireless-sensing leaders — Accsense, Accutech and Crossbow Technology — and includes communication functions and…