National Instruments (NI) has announced the LabVIEW 2010, the latest version of the graphical programming environment for design, test, measurement and control applications.
According to NI, LabVIEW 2010 offers added features, such as off-the-shelf compiler technologies that execute code an average of 20 per cent faster and a marketplace for evaluating and purchasing add-on toolkits for integrating custom functionality into the platform.
By listening to customer feedback, NI has able to deliver other features such as being able to provide a hardware configuration tool that makes it possible for users to access and configure their LabVIEW Real-Time targets remotely via a web browser. Other aspects include a smart installer that automatically detects the software associated with a serial number for faster installation and an improved instrument driver finder that offers prebuilt project examples for specific instruments.
For field-programmable gate array (FPGA) users, LabVIEW 2010 delivers a IP Integration Node that makes it possible to integrate any third-party FPGA IP into LabVIEW applications and is compatible with the Xilinx CORE Generator.
For more advanced users and development groups, LabVIEW 2010 includes new features that improve interfaces to reusable code, group VIs and their hierarchy for faster build times and separate the VI source code from the compiled version to aid in source code management.