NI Also Receives Honors in Best Contributed Article Category and EDN’s ‘Hot 100 Products’ for 2004
NEWS RELEASE – Jan. 20, 2005 – National Instruments today announced that EDN magazine editors selected the NI CompactRIO low-cost, reconfigurable control and acquisition system as a finalist for the magazine’s annual Innovation of the Year award in the embedded systems category. The award recognizes how embedded system designers can increase productivity with CompactRIO using high-performance reconfigurable FPGA technology and automated NI LabVIEW graphical development tools to quickly develop custom control and acquisition hardware. “As the saying goes, many are called, but few are chosen. Our technical editors have done outstanding work on the difficult task of identifying the finalists.
The differences in the products EDN covers are often subtle and tricky to flesh out,” said EDN Editor-in-Chief John Dodge. “Congratulations to all the finalists on a job well done.”The EDN Innovation Awards also honored NI compliance group manager Dave Lohbeck as a finalist for the Best Contributed Article award. Lohbeck’s article, which appeared in EDN’s Sept. 30, 2004 issue, discussed design techniques for using safety isolation to protect both users and electronic instruments in platforms such as CompactRIO.
In addition, EDN magazine named CompactRIO as one of the top technologies of 2004, listing it among its “Hot 100 Products” for the embedded tools category. “These awards from EDN reinforce how reconfigurable I/O technology is revolutionizing the design of embedded systems in control and measurement applications,” said Brian MacCleery, NI industrial control and acquisition product manager. “With CompactRIO, engineers can use graphical programming to design their own custom reconfigurable hardware, reducing development cycles from months to days.”CompactRIO is an advanced reconfigurable control and acquisition system designed for applications that require ultrahigh performance and reliability.
This low-cost embedded architecture combines a real-time embedded processor for stand-alone deterministic operation and communication interfaces; a high-performance reconfigurable I/O (RIO) FPGA core for unlimited flexibility in timing, triggering and synchronization; and industrial hot-swappable I/O modules for direct connection to industrial sensors and actuators.EDN magazine holds the Innovation of the Year awards to recognize unique, state-of-the-art electronics products in several categories. As a finalist in the embedded systems category, CompactRIO is eligible for the Innovation of the Year award in March.
EDN subscribers, which include engineers and engineering managers, will vote for the final winners on the EDN Web site at www.edn.com .
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About National Instruments
National Instruments ( www.ni.com ) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,100 employees and direct operations in 41 countries.
In 2003, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.