EDN Names NI LabVIEW 8, PXI-5922 Flexible-Resolution Digitizer as Award Finalists

February 21, 2006
National Instruments Corporation
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EDN magazine editors selected NI LabVIEW 8 and the NI PXI-5922 flexible-resolution digitizer as finalists for the magazine’s annual Innovation of the Year award. It also recently honored the NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module and the NI PXI-5922 digitizer as two of the magazine’s Hot 100 Products of 2005.

NEWS RELEASE – Feb. 21, 2006 – National Instruments today announced that EDN magazine editors selected NI LabVIEW 8, the latest version of the graphical development platform for design, control and test, and the NI PXI-5922 flexible-resolution digitizer, the highest-resolution PC-based oscilloscope, as finalists for the magazine’s annual Innovation of the Year award. It also recently honored the NI LabVIEW Embedded Development Module and the NI PXI-5922 digitizer as two of the magazine’s Hot 100 Products of 2005.LabVIEW 8, a major upgrade to the LabVIEW graphical development platform, uses the latest Express technology to improve the productivity of engineers and scientists in design, control and test. The new version introduced distributed intelligence – a powerful suite of new capabilities for engineers and scientists to easily design, distribute and synchronize intelligent devices and systems. With the simplified, scalable interface of LabVIEW 8, engineers now can use the same graphical platform for simple data transfer, deterministic real-time communication and network synchronization with integrated alarms, events and data logging while synchronizing between remote intelligent devices and systems. The NI PXI-5922 is a flexible-resolution digitizer engineers can use to trade sample rate for resolution through software. Capable of sampling anywhere from 24 bits at 500 kS/s to 16 bits at 15 MS/s, the NI PXI-5922 digitizer offers the highest dynamic range of any oscilloscope or digitizer on the market. Engineers can use the NI PXI-5922 digitizer to analyze a signal that was previously lost in the noise floor of their instrumentation. This unprecedented flexibility and dynamic range make the digitizer suitable for a wide range of demanding applications such as high-end audio and ultrasound testing, characterization of high-resolution digital-to-analog converters and baseband I/Q analysis. EDN also recognized the LabVIEW Embedded Development Module alongside the NI PXI-5922 digitizer as one of its Hot 100 Products of 2005. This module extends LabVIEW software to any 32-bit embedded processor with more than 400 analysis functions. With the LabVIEW Embedded Development Module, engineers and scientists design algorithms and program applications using an intuitive graphical dataflow language. EDN magazine holds the Innovation of the Year awards to recognize state-of-the-art electronics in several categories. As finalists in the software and test and measurement categories, LabVIEW 8 and the NI PXI-5922 flexible-resolution digitizer are eligible for the Innovation of the Year award in April. The EDN audience of engineers and engineering managers as well as EDN’s editorial staff and Editorial Advisory Board will vote online to select the ultimate winners, which will be announced on April 3.About EDNKnown as the “voice of the engineer,” Waltham, Mass.-based EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN Australia, EDN China, EDN Japan and EDN.com. About National InstrumentsFor 30 years, National Instruments has been 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 PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, PCI Express, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,800 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Learn More

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