National Instruments LabVIEW 2015

The latest version of LabVIEW delivers speed improvements, development shortcuts and debugging tools to empower developers to efficiently interact with the systems they create. LabVIEW 2015 continues to standardise the way LabVIEW users interact with almost any hardware through the re-use of the same code and engineering processes across systems, saving time and money as technology advances, requirements evolve and time-to-market pressure increases.

LabVIEW 2015 supports advanced hardware such as the quad-core performance CompactRIO and CompactDAQ controllers, 14-slot CompactDAQ USB 3.0 chassis, Single-Board RIO controllers, Controller for FlexRIO, eight-core PXI controller and high-voltage system SMU.

The platform enables code to be opened faster, with large libraries opening up to eight times faster and eliminating prompts to locate missing modules. Seven time-saving right-click plugins make common tasks faster, and users can develop their own plugins to maximise productivity. Code can also be debugged faster — users can examine arrays and strings in autoscaling probe watch windows and document their findings with hyperlink and hashtag support in comments. Faster code deployment is achieved by offloading FPGA compilations to the LabVIEW FPGA Compile Cloud service.

LabVIEW 2015 is extended by the LabVIEW Tools Network. The Advanced Plotting Toolkit by Heliosphere Research furnishes developers with powerful programmatic plotting tools to create professional data visualisations. The RTI DDS Toolkit by Real-Time Innovations enables IoT applications with scalable peer-to-peer data communication. Additionally, application-specific libraries for biomedical, GPU analysis, multicore analysis and sparse matrix applications are now available free of charge.