NI releases LabVIEW 7.1 and widens reach of 'Express' technology National Instruments has released a major LabVIEW upgrade, which broadens the scope of LabVIEW Express technology, launched exactly a year ago. Five new Express VIs extend these very productive code generation tools to cover a wider range of modular instruments, including high-speed digitisers, signal generators and high-speed digital I/O. Mixed signal designs can be prototyped in minutes using easy-to-configure dialogues that require little or no programming. LabVIEW 7.1 also offers an upgrade of the NI-DAQmx measurement services software, which is now available in real time to increase the performance of single-loop PID applications by 30% and simplify hardware-timed loop implementation. The facility allows users to create real time systems by integrating the large installed base of PCI I/O hardware with desktop PCs. The feature is augmented by the addition of an 'execution trace' toolkit for debugging that provides very detailed timing information in a clear graphical format. The NI-DAQmx 7.2 upgrade now supports the emerging plug-and-play Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) smart sensing technology, which provides automatic configuration and graphic terminal wiring information for all TEDS-compliant sensors. Also just released by National Instruments, the Measurement and Control Designer 2004 CD allows users of NI hardware and software to select the most appropriate products for particular test, measurement and industrial control applications. It saves development time as well reducing the resources needed to configure and develop these systems. The CD interfaces with an online advisor at www.ni.com/advisor to generate hardware and software recommendations based on the parameters to be measured, such as temperature, shock and vibration. Click Here for more info using our Online Enquiry Service with number 264