National Instruments Introduces LabVIEW 2011
NI發(fā)布LabVIEW 2011

August 2, 2011 – National Instruments unveiled NI LabVIEW 2011, the 25th-anniversary version of its system design software. LabVIEW accelerates the productivity of engineers and scientists who develop and deploy measurement and control systems to solve some of the world’s greatest engineering challenges. LabVIEW 2011 can dramatically increase development efficiency through new engineering-specific libraries and its ability to interact with almost any hardware device or deployment target, including the new multicore NI CompactRIO controller and the NI PXIe-5665, one of the highest performing RF vector signal analyzers in the industry. It also supports assemblies built in the latest Microsoft .NET Framework and includes numerous features driven directly from user feedback. With these and other advantages, LabVIEW 2011 helps engineers integrate individual system components into a single, reconfigurable platform so they can do their jobs faster, better and at a lower cost.

8月2日消息——美國國家儀器發(fā)布了NI LabVIEW 2011，其系統(tǒng)設計軟件的25周年版本。LabVIEW 將加速提升工程師與科學家研發(fā)和部署測量和控制系統(tǒng)的效率，以解決一些世界上最艱巨的工程挑戰(zhàn)。LabVIEW 2011通過新的工程專用庫以及其對幾乎任何硬件設備和部署目標的交互能力極大地增加了效率，包括新的多核 NI CompactRIO 控制器及當今業(yè)界性能最強大的射頻向量信號分析器之一的 NI PXIe-5665。LabVIEW 2011還支持最新的微軟.NET框架內置的組件，并且采納用戶的直接反饋而包含了眾多新特性。綜合以上和其他優(yōu)勢，LabVIEW 2011 能夠幫助工程師將單獨的系統(tǒng)部件集成為一個統(tǒng)一并可重配置的平臺，從而讓工程更快，更出色，成本也更低地完成他們的工作。

LabVIEW 2011 makes it possible for engineers to achieve significant productivity gains in a variety of tasks, including the following time-saving functions:

LabVIEW 2011 使得工程師在多種任務下極大地提高效率，包括以下高效功能：

•Quickly develop visually striking, contemporary user interfaces with a new Silver palette of controls and indicators
•Reuse code with support for the latest .NET assemblies, .m structures and new Xilinx IP for the LabVIEW FPGA Module
•Achieve up to five times faster loading, wiring, editing and compiling of FPGA code
•Programmatically build and distribute executables to targets
•Spawn asynchronous threads to create multithreaded applications more quickly with a new communication API

•快速的開發(fā)視覺化效果，包括控件及顯示銀色新面板的流行用戶界面
•可重用的代碼，包括對最新的 .NET 組件、.m 結構的支持，以及新的 Xilinx IP 的 LabVIEW FPGA 模塊
•最快可達原先5倍的 FPGA 代碼載入、連線、編輯及編譯
•程序的可編程建立及部署于目標的可執(zhí)行文件
•通過新的通信API 可大量生成異步線程以創(chuàng)建更快的多線程應用

With its stability for mission-critical applications, as well as its simplified integration with hardware from many industry leaders, LabVIEW 2011 gives measurement and control system designers the confidence to innovate efficiently within a proven support infrastructure.

利用其關鍵任務應用的穩(wěn)定性以及對眾多工業(yè)領先硬件的簡化集成能力，LabVIEW 2011給予測量和控制系統(tǒng)設計者們強大的信心，在已證明了的架構條件下高效地創(chuàng)新。

When combined with modular hardware, LabVIEW 2011 is the centerpiece of the NI approach to graphical system design, which provides a unified platform for designing, prototyping and deploying applications with maximum efficiency. Engineers and scientists in virtually every industry are using graphical system design, from basic measurement applications to the most complex, advanced research projects.

一旦結合硬件模塊， LabVIEW 2011 是實現(xiàn) NI 圖形化系統(tǒng)設計方法的核心，為設計、原型制作和發(fā)布提供了最高效的統(tǒng)一平臺。工程師和科學家?guī)缀踉诿總€工業(yè)領域都使用圖形化系統(tǒng)設計，從基本測量應用到最復雜先進的研究項目。

“Twenty-five years ago, we created LabVIEW to help engineers focus on innovating instead of wrestling with complicated programming and system integration issues, and today, it has become the ultimate system design software for measurement and control,” said Jeff Kodosky, National Instruments business and technology fellow, cofounder and inventor of LabVIEW. “With each new version, whether by ensuring integration with the latest hardware, introducing new libraries and APIs or implementing engineer-requested features, our primary objective remains to increase productivity in any engineering situation.”

NI公司創(chuàng)始人之一兼LabVIEW 發(fā)明者Jeff Kodosky 表示：“25年前，我們創(chuàng)建了 LabVIEW 來幫助工程師們從復雜的編程及系統(tǒng)集成問題中解脫出來，專注于創(chuàng)新，而今天，LabVIEW 已經(jīng)變成了測量和控制領域首選的圖形化系統(tǒng)設計軟件。每一次軟件版本的更新，不論是無縫集成最新的硬件，還是添加新的函數(shù)庫和 API，以及新增基于用戶反饋的新特性，我們的主要目的依然是在所有工程環(huán)境中提高應用效率。”

“By using LabVIEW, we decreased our system development time by one-third compared to the time we spent with traditional approaches,” said Glenn Larkin, engineer for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, home of advanced fusion research and one of the world’s most powerful lasers. “We plan to extend our use of LabVIEW and NI hardware in many facilities that support NIF so we can realize these same productivity gains in future projects.”

美國 Lawrence Livermore 國家實驗室國家點火設施（NIF）——先進聚變研究基地，也是世界上最強大的激光器之一——的工程師Glenn Larkin表示：“我們使用 LabVIEW 后，系統(tǒng)的研發(fā)時間與傳統(tǒng)方法相比降低了三分之一。我們計劃繼續(xù)在更多的NIF設施中使用 LabVIEW 及 NI 的硬件，使得我們可以在未來的項目中實現(xiàn)相同的效率。”

About National Instruments
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National Instruments is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with its largest customer representing approximately 4 percent of revenue in 2010 and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has approximately 5,500 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 12 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

美國國家儀器有限公司致力于為測量、自動化和嵌入式應用領域的工程師和科學家們從設計、原型到發(fā)布系統(tǒng)帶來革命性的理念。NI為遍布全球各地的30000家不同的客戶提供現(xiàn)成即用的軟件，如NI LabVIEW，以及高性價比的模塊化硬件。2010年，NI最大的客戶占營收的大約4%，沒有任何一個行業(yè)超過總營收的15%。NI總部設在美國德克薩斯州的奧斯汀，在超過40個國家和地區(qū)設有分支機構，共擁有5500余名員工。在過去連續(xù)12年里，NI被《財富》雜志評選為“美國最適合工作的100家公司之一”。