LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used by millions of engineers and scientists to develop sophisticated measurement, test, and control systems using intuitive graphical icons and wires that resemble a flowchart. It offers unrivaled integration with thousands of hardware devices and provides hundreds of built-in libraries for advanced analysis and data visualization – all for creating virtual instrumentation. The LabVIEW platform is scalable across multiple targets and OSs, and, since its introduction in 1986, it has become an industry leader.

Learn more about LabVIEW at ni.com/labview/whatis

With the NI LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module, you can simulate dynamic systems, design sophisticated controllers, and deploy your control systems to real-time hardware. You can use both classical and state-space approaches to design controllers and estimators. When you integrate this module with the LabVIEW MathScript RT Module, you can perform textual mathematics and algorithm design in LabVIEW using the .m file syntax.

Learn more about the Control Design and Simulation Module at ni.com/embeddedcontrol

The NI LabVIEW Digital Filter Design Toolkit extends LabVIEW with functions (LabVIEW VIs that you install into the palette) and interactive tools for the design, analysis, and implementation of digital filters. New digital filter users can explore classical designs with the built-in interactive design tools, while experienced users can find a breadth of algorithms, filter topologies, and analysis tools for both fixed- and floating-point digital filters. For fixed-point filters, you can model quantization effects, optimize numeric representation/topology, and deploy the design on a digital signal processor or field-programmable gate array (FPGA) using automatically generated ANSI C or LabVIEW FPGA code.

Learn more about the Digital Filter Design Toolkit by navigating to ni.com/info and entering the info code DFDT

The LabVIEW Real-Time Module helps you develop applications that execute reliably and deterministically as autonomous systems on NI real-time devices such as PXI, Compact FieldPoint, and CompactRIO, as well as standard desktop PCs. The embedded real-time OS for these targets is a single dedicated kernel that provides maximum reliability for embedded code.

LabVIEW SignalExpress is interactive, data-logging software for quickly acquiring, analyzing, and presenting data from hundreds of data acquisition devices and instruments, with no programming required.

Learn more about LabVIEW SignalExpress at ni.com/signalexpress

The NI LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit combines data acquisition tools with system identification algorithms for accurate plant modeling. You can take advantage of LabVIEW intuitive data acquisition tools including the DAQ Assistant to stimulate and acquire data from the plant and then automatically identify a dynamic system model. You can convert system identification models to state-space, transfer function, or pole-zero-gain form for control system analysis and design. The toolkit includes built-in functions for common tasks such as data preprocessing, model creation, and system analysis. With the System Identification Assistant in the toolkit, you can interactively design and use system identification techniques that you can later export to LabVIEW.

Learn more about the System Identification Toolkit by navigating to ni.com/info and entering the info code SYSID

The NI Vision Development Module is designed to help you develop and deploy machine vision applications. It includes hundreds of functions to acquire images from a multitude of cameras and to process images by enhancing them, checking for presence, locating features, identifying objects, and measuring parts.

The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Module, co-developed with Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, provides an upgraded, intuitive API to support the NXT, Pitsco TETRIX, and Vernier NXT Adaptor.
 

Rapidly develop custom applications for research, design, characterization, validation, and test of communications systems and components that modulate or demodulate signals.

Design applications based on digital modulation formats (AM, FM, PM, ASK, FSK, MSK, GMSK, PSK, QPSK, PAM, and QAM) that are essential in communication standards such as 802.11a/b/g/n, ZigBee (802.15.4), WiMAX (802.16), RFID, etc.

Find out more about RF and wireless communications using LabVIEW at ni.com/academic/communication.

 NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) is an interactive and easy-to-use menu-driven configurable environment for building, bench marking, and deploying complete machine vision applications without the complexities of programming. You can use the built-in deployment interface to quickly deploy your inspection, guidance, and identification applications.

System Requirements

Windows
Processor Pentium 4/M or equivalent
RAM 1 GB
Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
Operating System Windows 7/Vista/XP SP2/Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit)/Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
Disk Space 3.3 GB

Macintosh
Processor Intel-based processor
RAM 1 GB
Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
Operating System Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6
Disk Space 1.2 GB for the complete installation

LabVIEW Full or Professional development system (32-bit) plus the following:
    - At least 350 MB additional disk space for LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation support
    - (Optional) LabVIEW MathScript RT Module
    - (Optional) LabVIEW SignalExpress

LabVIEW Full or Professional development system (32-bit) for Windows plus the following:
          - 200 MB additional available disk space
          - Real-time target hardware and driver software
You might need more memory than the recommended minimum for LabVIEW depending on the size of the application you design in LabVIEW on the host computer

Windows 7/Vista/XP SP2/Server 2003 R2 (32-bit)/Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
1 GB of RAM
2 GB of free disk space
Pentium 4 processor or equivalent

LabVIEW Base, Full, or Professional development system (32- and 64-bit) for Windows plus the following:
          - Minimum processor: 233 MHz Pentium or equivalent