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National Instruments Products Named Finalists for Five Design News Awards

  • February 14, 2006
  • National Instruments Corporation
  • News

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NEWS RELEASE – Feb. 2006 – National Instruments products recently garnered five award nominations in the annual Design News “Golden Mousetrap” Awards. Four different NI products – NI LabVIEW 8, the LabVIEW Embedded Development Module, NI cRIO-4408 and NI SignalExpress 1.1 – were named finalists in five categories, with winners selected online by readers until February and announced in March. The Golden Mousetrap Awards recognized the most exciting new engineering products introduced during the past year through the categories of electronics/test, materials/fastening, motion control/automation and software/hardware.The National Instruments LabVIEW 8 graphical development environment received honors in both the Test and Measurement and the Design and Development Software Tools subcategories, illustrating the environment’s effectiveness for diverse applications and points in the product life cycle. Introduced 20 years ago this year, LabVIEW continues to be one of the industry’s most powerful and intuitive tools for creating more efficient test and measurement applications, and the new features in LabVIEW 8 make it even easier to create and deploy an intelligent distributed system. The LabVIEW Embedded Development Module received finalist honors in the contest’s Digital Control/Embedded Computing subcategory. Engineers and scientists can use the LabVIEW Embedded Development Module to graphically program any 32-bit microprocessor, as well as to incorporate logic, control, signal processing and analysis capabilities into an application.In addition to the LabVIEW nominations, a National Instruments CompactRIO digital signal analyzer (DSA) was named a finalist in the Digital Rapid Prototyping Tools subcategory. The cRIO-4408 device is one of the industry’s smallest, most rugged eight-channel DSAs, with 24-bit measurements and Ethernet/LAN communication. Engineers can use the cRIO-4408 to acquire high-quality measurements at speeds up to 50 kS/s with 102 dB dynamic range.In the subcategory of Analog Control, National Instruments SignalExpress 1.1 interactive software received finalist honors, offering engineers and scientists a way to quickly acquire, compare, automate and store measurements. SignalExpress 1.1 is a completely interactive, drag-and-drop measurement software tool developed specifically for taking mixed-signal benchtop measurements. Using SignalExpress, engineers can quickly generate and measure analog and digital signals with PC-based and stand-alone instruments.“We are excited to receive these finalist nominations for our newest products, and believe that they reflect the exceptional innovation that takes place every day within the NI R&D teams,” said Tim Dehne, NI senior vice president of R&D. “National Instruments mission is to deliver products that help engineers and scientists more effectively measure and automate the world around them, and these products offer innovative ways to make users more productive.”Through the Golden Mousetrap Awards, Design News readers vote online for the winner of each subcategory from the listed finalists. Winners will be announced in the Design News Special Awards Issue in March 2006. Design News, in print for 60 years, has a circulation of more than 170,000 and covers the latest tools, components and materials used in mechanical and electromechanical design.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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