As hardware designers turn toward multicore processors to improve computing power, software programmers must find new programming strategies that harness the power of parallel computing. One technique ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — James Truchard thinks he may have one of the keys to the multicore era. The chief executive of National Instruments believes the company's flagship LabView environment offers many ...

National Instruments today announced LabVIEW 2009, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. LabVIEW 2009 simplifies the ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

I can remember learning to program in C and how hard it was to keep track of the big picture while coding in the weeds. Not to mention how arcane relay ladder logic is. I’ve been fascinated by LabView ...

USA: National Instruments announced LabVIEW 8.6, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. Building on the inherent ...

Jeff Kodosky, co-founder and business and technology fellow at National Instruments, was an architect of the LabView graphical programming language. On visit to the NIDays technology conference in ...

While National Instruments LabVIEW graphical programming language can help designers develop software for embedded systems, the company’s CompactRIO hardware plays an equally important role in helping ...