New LabVIEW Version Promises Increased Productivity

Hailed as a major upgrade to the company’s entire family of graphical development products, LabVIEW 7 Express is said to dramatically simplify the creation of measurement and automation applications and, as a result, deliver large gains in productivity. In addition, the new version extends the language to a wider range of targets, from embedded FPGAs to Palm OS and Microsoft Pocket PC PDAs. A powerful feature of the upgrade is the Express VI, which is designed to reduce development time for both new and experienced users. More than 40 of these interactive virtual instruments are meant to streamline development tasks ranging from data acquisition to signal analysis to file I/O. According to the company, Express VIs deliver the power of advanced measurement functions in easy-to-configure dialogs requiring little or no programming. The LabVIEW 7 Express product family includes LabVIEW Base, Full and Professional Development Systems as well as a variety of add-on modules, including the FPGA, PDA and Real-Time Modules. For more information and pricing, contact Ernest Martinez at NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS, Austin, TX. (800) 258-7022.