For the past 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.
White Paper: High-level design tools offer field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology to engineers and scientists who have little or no digital hardware design expertise. Whether you use graphical programming, C, or VHDL, the synthesis process is quite complex and can leave you wondering how FPGAs really... more
White Paper: Download this white paper to learn how to use virtual prototyping to design, optimize, validate, and visualize your products digitally and evaluate different design concepts before incurring the cost of physical prototypes... more
White Paper: Learn how the UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing implemented a low-cost, easy-to-install parking lot occupancy monitoring system that integrates with an online database to provide parking space information locally and remotely using NI Wireless Sensor Networks... more
Case Study: Learn how the UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing implemented a low-cost, easy-to-install parking lot occupancy monitoring system that integrates with an online database to provide parking space information locally and remotely using NI Wireless Sensor Networks... more
White Paper: Intense global competition is putting pressure on machine builders to deliver machines with higher throughput, reduced operating cost, and more features. Therefore, today’s machine builders have switched from designing single-purpose machines to creating flexible and highly effective multipurpose... more
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White Paper: Engineers and scientists use virtual prototyping to design, optimize, validate, and visualize their machines digitally and evaluate different design concepts before incurring the cost of physical prototypes. Learn how to use NI SoftMotion for SolidWorks to drive the simulation within a SolidWorks... more
White Paper: National Instruments delivers a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware for rapid prototyping. These architectures combine the latest PC technology with measurement and I/O capabilities. Using this standard architecture and NI LabVIEW graphical development tools, you can rapidly... more
White Paper: Considering your deployment hardware design goals early in the design process can help you get to market faster. You can eliminate rework and deploy more reliable embedded systems . You can also be machining more quickly by using much of the software and hardware of your prototype within your... more
White Paper: Proportional integral derivative (PID) control is the most commonly used control algorithm in the industry today. PID controller popularity can be attributed to the controller’s effectiveness in a wide range of operation conditions, its functional simplicity, and the ease with which engineers can... more