NI’s familiar software, new capabilities
The world is becoming more graphically natured and National Instruments knows to get ahead, they have to remain one step ahead of everyone else.
That is what they say they are accomplishing with its latest software release LabView 8.5. “Because of our system level approach, we are achieving another level of programming capability,” said Dr. James Truchard, president, chief executive and co-founder of National Instruments during his keynote address this morning at NIWeek 07 in Austin, Texas.
“As Steve Jobs said, ‘the journey is the reward.’ With LabView, the journey continues,” Truchard said in front of over 2,000 attendees.
“There is a change coming in the PC industry as it gets further into multicore processing,” Truchard said. “With the shift toward multicore processors on the PC, LabVIEW programmers benefit from a simplified graphical approach to multithreading, making it possible for them to maximize the performance of multicore technology with little or no change to their code.” In other words, with a change to gain more productivity out of a system, the use won’t have to reprogram their system.
With the new LabView release, “all these tools integrate to allow the engineers to do some very nice things,” he said.
When users had to change out their legacy systems, Truchard said, it would cost millions of dollars. Now, with new PC technologies, those systems can simply change out with a PC.
With this latest technology move, software leaders like Microsoft’s Bill Gates said it would take years to catch up with multicore processing, said Tim Dehne, senior vice president of R&D at NI. That may be true with them, he said, but not with LabView.
Dehne then showed in multiple demonstrations how the new software release is capable of handling multicore processing even in extreme cases.
That is what they say they are accomplishing with its latest software release LabView 8.5. “Because of our system level approach, we are achieving another level of programming capability,” said Dr. James Truchard, president, chief executive and co-founder of National Instruments during his keynote address this morning at NIWeek 07 in Austin, Texas.
“As Steve Jobs said, ‘the journey is the reward.’ With LabView, the journey continues,” Truchard said in front of over 2,000 attendees.
“There is a change coming in the PC industry as it gets further into multicore processing,” Truchard said. “With the shift toward multicore processors on the PC, LabVIEW programmers benefit from a simplified graphical approach to multithreading, making it possible for them to maximize the performance of multicore technology with little or no change to their code.” In other words, with a change to gain more productivity out of a system, the use won’t have to reprogram their system.
With the new LabView release, “all these tools integrate to allow the engineers to do some very nice things,” he said.
When users had to change out their legacy systems, Truchard said, it would cost millions of dollars. Now, with new PC technologies, those systems can simply change out with a PC.
With this latest technology move, software leaders like Microsoft’s Bill Gates said it would take years to catch up with multicore processing, said Tim Dehne, senior vice president of R&D at NI. That may be true with them, he said, but not with LabView.
Dehne then showed in multiple demonstrations how the new software release is capable of handling multicore processing even in extreme cases.
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