Alliance Program Members Bring Advanced Control Design Experience to NI MATRIXx Initiative
NEWS RELEASE -- April 22, 2003 -- National Instruments today announced nine companies have joined the National Instruments Alliance Program to provide professional services and support for MATRIXx, a comprehensive suite of software tools for control design and simulation.
These companies support National Instruments long-term strategy to supply engineering tools for the enterprise, from design to prototyping to manufacturing test, and offer consulting, engineering services and turn-key solutions for simulation, real-time embedded control and hardware-in-the-loop testing.National Instruments Alliance Program members specializing in MATRIXx services and support include: · Applied Dynamics International (Ann Arbor, Mich.)· iControl (San Jose, Calif.)· ITK Engineering, GmbH (Marburg/Karlsruhe/Munich, Germany)· Octant Technologies (San Jose, Calif.)· Opal-RT Technologies (Montreal, Canada)· Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
(Sunnyvale, Calif.)· SC Solutions (Sunnyvale, Calif.)· Simulogix (Redwood City, Calif.) · Syscon (Wangen, Germany)"Cooperation with these worldwide companies reflects National Instruments commitment to providing MATRIXx users with comprehensive, long-term service and support," said Ash Razdan, National Instruments services director.
"These companies bring decades of MATRIXx experience from a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive and semiconductor." MATRIXx contains differentiated, leading-edge technology in dynamic, modeling control design and automatic code generation. The MATRIXx product family helps design engineers decrease their development time and expedite the production and management of their control software.
For more information about the MATRIXx software suite and these NI Alliance Program members, visit ni.com/matrixx .About National InstrumentsNational Instruments ( http://ni.com ) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation -- a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for customers worldwide 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.
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