National Instruments LabVIEW 2011

National Instruments has released NI LabVIEW 2011, the 25th-anniversary version of its system design software. It is designed to increase development efficiency through new engineering-specific libraries and its ability to interact with almost any hardware device or deployment target. It also supports assemblies built in the latest Microsoft .NET Framework and includes numerous features driven directly from user feedback.

LabVIEW 2011 makes it possible for engineers to achieve significant productivity gains in a variety of tasks, including the following time-saving functions: quickly develop visually striking, contemporary user interfaces with a new Silver palette of controls and indicators; re-use code with support for the latest .NET assemblies, .m structures and Xilinx IP for the LabVIEW FPGA Module; achieve up to five times faster loading, wiring, editing and compiling of FPGA code; programmatically build and distribute executables to targets; spawn asynchronous threads to create multithreaded applications more quickly with a new communication API

With its stability for mission-critical applications, as well as its simplified integration with hardware from many industry leaders, LabVIEW 2011 gives measurement and control system designers the confidence to innovate efficiently within a proven support infrastructure.

When combined with modular hardware, LabVIEW 2011 is the centrepiece of the NI approach to graphical system design, which provides a unified platform for designing, prototyping and deploying applications with efficiency. Engineers and scientists in virtually every industry can use graphical system design, from basic measurement applications to the most complex, advanced research projects.