Development platform

National Instruments has announced LabVIEW 2009, a graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development.

LabVIEW 2009 is designed to simplify the development challenges of parallel hardware architectures with new virtualisation technology that takes advantage of multicore systems as well as by offering compiler improvements and IP that enhance field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design. NI Real-Time Hypervisor software combines the LabVIEW Real-Time Module with general-purpose OS capabilities to reduce overall system cost and size. Using this software, Windows XP and LabVIEW Real-Time can be run side by side on the same controller, partitioning the processor cores among the two operating systems.

The latest version of LabVIEW makes it possible to deploy code to wireless sensor networks to help engineers and scientists build smarter industrial measurement and monitoring systems and features solutions for testing multiple wireless standards such as WLAN, WiMAX, GPS and MIMO systems on a single hardware platform.

In addition, LabVIEW 2009 streamlines mathematical algorithm design and deployment to real-time hardware. With the LabVIEW MathScript RT Module, LabVIEW 2009 further expands access to real-time math, which is the implementation and deployment of mathematical algorithms to deterministic operating systems, when using text-based math tools. The module also provides the ability to incorporate existing .m files using interactive user interfaces and real-world I/O and easily deploy them to real-time hardware for faster system prototyping.