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NI Corporate Brochure

Provides a short brief on the company and the NI graphical system design approach to automation, test and measurement applications. National Instruments equips engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery. The NI software-based approach incorporates rapidly advancing commercial technology, providing an integrated software and hardware platform that abstracts system complexity and significantly speeds application design, development, and deployment.

Product Guide

Being is a technology pioneer and industry leader, National Instruments brings you a comprehensive list of flexible and high-performance products to create reliable, user-defined systems in test, control and design.

LabVIEW Platform Brochure

For more than 20 years, engineers and scientists worldwide have depended on NI LabVIEW software to build cost-effective design, control, and test systems. Find out about the unique graphical programming environment that is universally compatible with any measurement device and design tools.

LabVIEW 2012 Upgrade Flyer

Introducing NI LabVIEW 2012, the latest version of the intuitive graphical programming language for engineers and scientists. You can now gain productivity with features implemented from user feedback, optimized machine code, inherent timing capabilities, and the ability to save VIs without compiled code.

LabVIEW for Control Design & Simulation

With the NI LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module, you can analyze open-loop model behavior, design closed-loop controllers, simulate dynamic systems, and implement real-time controllers. You can create models using transfer function, state-space, or zero-pole-gain representation and utilize advanced control and estimation algorithms such as extended Kalman filters and model predictive control.

NI DIAdem

NI DIAdem is software for managing, visualizing, analyzing, and reporting the large amounts of data generated during test and measurement applications so you can move faster from raw data to meaningful results. DIAdem is designed to help you make informed decisions and meet the demands of today’s testing environments, which require quick access to large volumes of scattered data, standardized analysis and reporting, and informative data visualization.

NI VeriStand

NI VeriStand is an open software environment for configuring real-time testing applications. Its out-of-the-box functionality gets you up and running quickly so you can reduce your development cost. No programming knowledge is necessary; however, the ability to add custom functionality using NI LabVIEW, C/C++, and other environments provides the flexibility of an open development platform.

NI TestStand

Chosen by the top global electronics, manufacturing, and defense companies, NI TestStand is an off-the-shelf software tool for rapidly developing, deploying, and managing automated test systems. With NI TestStand, you can execute tests written in any software language. You can test products in parallel and optimize instrument use and test times with built-in autoscheduling intelligence. NI TestStand also offers the tools to easily present your test results throughout the enterprise.

NI Academic Brochure

The global academic community is tackling challenges of unprecedented scope and urgency, from pioneering research in biotechnology and sustainable energy to developing new ways to delivery fundamental needs such as education and clean water. Take a moment to explore technologies from National Instruments that are bringing hands-on, project-based learning to the classroom, taking research to the next level, and fostering the next generation of innovators.

NI ELVIS Education Platform

With National Instruments software and hardware, engineering educators worldwide help students connect theory to real-world design through hands-on, experiential learning. Using NI ELVIS, educators can take advantage of a complete, low-cost design and prototyping platform for teaching circuits, measurements, controls, telecommunications, microcontrollers, and embedded design in engineering laboratories.

NI Multisim and Ultiboard

The NI Multisim and Ultiboard circuit design environments (formerly from Electronics Workbench) provide a complete printed circuit board (PCB) prototyping platform. And you don't have to be a design expert to benefit from powerful capture, simulation, and layout features. Regardless of experience, this easy-to-use circuit simulation and prototyping platform can help speed up validation, improve performance, and reduce prototype iterations.

NI Multisim for Education

Engage students and reinforce circuit theory with a hands-on approach using NI Multisim, an unparalleled electronics teaching environment. Multisim simplifies circuit education by providing students with an interactive environment to explore and visualize circuit behavior using intuitive capture, easy-to-use simulation, and a graphical approach to circuit analyses.

NI Multisim Education 10

NI Multisim forms the foundation of the NI Electronics Education Platform, that creates a a comprehensive and integrated learning environment that includes simulation, breadboarding, measurement and analysis. Read more about NI Multisim 10, the latest edition of the interactive SPICE simulation and circuit analysis software most widely used for teaching.

Data Acquisition Brochure

National Instruments have a comprehensive range of data acquisition system architecture that will suit your requirements for measurements automation and make data available for analysis.

Automated Test Brochure 

Expanding requirements and unprecedented business constraints present serious challenges for today’s test engineers. As devices become more complex, engineers must find ways to increase throughput and explore lower cost solutions. NI has helped companies across industries build more effective automated test and measurement systems. With the NI software-defined approach, thousands of companies are building test systems based on flexible hardware platforms and scalable software.

NI PXI Platform Brochure

National Instruments offers a complete automated test platform for engineers that features unrivaled flexibility, reduced cost, and increased performance. With NI PXI hardware and NI LabVIEW system design software, you can confidently meet the demands of changing and complex test requirements across industries including aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer electronics, multimedia, RF and communications, and semiconductor test.

RF and Wireless Test Brochure

Maximize test coverage for today’s wireless products and tomorrow’s designs with software-defined RF instrumentation from National Instruments. This approach extracts the functionality of your RF instrumentation into a programmable software environment such as NI LabVIEW, so you can define the functions your RF instruments perform.

NI Wireless Sensors Network Flyer

The National Instruments wireless sensor network (WSN) platform combines battery-powered measurement nodes, industrial certifications, and NI LabVIEW graphical programming to deliver a complete wireless monitoring solution. The seamless integration with LabVIEW offers the flexibility and power to effectively collect, process, analyze, and present measurement data.

NI Motion Control

Engineers use NI motion control as part of a complete machine design platform to develop demanding applications faster and at a lower cost. NI motion control is an ideal solution for tightly integrating motion with machine vision and sensor I/O in measurement, control, and test solutions.

NI Vision

For almost 15 years, National Instruments has provided software and hardware tools for vision applications, to help engineers and scientists meet a diverse set of challenges faster and at a lower cost.

The Automated Test Outlook: 2013

The Automated Test Outlook is a comprehensive view of the key technologies and methodologies making a large impact on the test and measurement industry. One of the biggest challenges for test engineers and managers is staying current on technology trends. National Instruments has a broad knowledge of technology trends and interacts with companies across many sectors, which gives us a unique view on the test and measurement market. This makes it possible for us to be a strategic partner with many of our key customers in identifying trends and industry best practices. For 2013, we highlight five major trends across five categories: business strategy, architecture, computing, software, and I/O.

NI CompactRIO Flyer 

The NI CompactRIO programmable automation controller (PAC) provides the high performance and reliability required for industrial and embedded control applications. CompactRIO blends open embedded architecture functionality and FPGA reliability with small size, ruggedness, and hot-swappable industrial I/O modules, making it the ideal platform to design, prototype, and deploy your measurement and control solutions.

Embedded Control and Monitoring

NI provides the tools to help design teams build highly differentiated embedded systems for demanding applications in industries such as energy, industrial control, life sciences, and transportation. NI embedded control and monitoring systems, including NI LabVIEW software and NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware, combine the ruggedness and ease of use of off-the-shelf systems like programmable logic controllers (PLCs), PC-based systems, and single-board computers (SBCs) with the specialization of custom hardware.

Embedded Design Platforms

From revolutionary medical devices to cutting-edge robots and industrial machines, graphical system design gives you the power to rapidly design, prototype, and deploy embedded systems using intuitive graphical programming software with tightly integrated hardware. With this approach, you can easily incorporate additional algorithm design tools, program commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware for rapid system prototyping, and deploy to COTS or custom hardware to achieve faster design cycles.

Embedded Systems Outlook

National Instruments provides graphical system tools for engineers and scientists who are developing next-generation embedded systems within industries such as energy, industrial control, life sciences, and transportation. With NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware and NI LabVIEW system design software, smaller design teams can prototype and deploy demanding control and monitoring applications faster.
Over 30,000 companies around the world use National Instruments tools. Additionally, NI collaborates with leading technology providers such as Intel, Xilinx, and Analog Devices to ensure that NI embedded systems use the latest and greatest technologies. Using this ecosystem of customers and partners, NI created this outlook to highlight some of the most pressing trends and challenges facing design teams building embedded control and monitoring systems.

Solutions for Aerospace and Defense

For more than 30 years, National Instruments has helped military, aerospace, and defense companies around the world build more effective automated test, measurement, and control systems. User-defined systems based on NI technology have been deployed to a variety of high-performance, flexible applications.

Solutions for Oil and Gas Industry

As petroleum companies use technology to help meet these energy needs, they are
realizing the benefits of NI tools to increase efficiency, research new sources of clean energy, and improve production while protecting the environment.

NI has a long history of providing technology for research, laboratory, and field applications along upstream, midstream, and downstream areas of the petroleum industry. Through this experience, the company has gained the knowledge necessary to meet the growing requirements for oil and gas applications.

Solutions for Sound and Vibration Applications

National Instruments is a technology leader in sound and vibration measurement and analysis, delivering today’s most advanced technologies for audio test; noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) test; machine condition monitoring; and structural health monitoring applications.

With the graphical system design approach, NI has redefined how engineers develop and deploy sound and vibration measurement solutions, resulting in reduced time to test and lower measurement costs.

Solutions for Automotive Applications

National Instruments tools save time and money across all stages of the automotive engineering process by providing a common platform for control, design, and test. With industry-leading I/O, flexible off-the-shelf hardware, and the powerful NI LabVIEW development environment, you can create user-defined solutions for applications ranging from embedded design and functional test to in-vehicle data logging and dynamometer control. With more than 300 global National Instruments Alliance Partners, you can also obtain turnkey solutions built on the proven NI platform.

Solutions for the Energy Industry

Engineers and scientists around the world are using the National Instruments graphical system design platform to make a positive impact on the global ecosystem. Rugged, high-performance hardware systems and graphical system design software from NI can solve any control or monitoring task within the clean technology industry, including online monitoring systems for wind and solar applications, real-time control for power electronics, and embedded measurement and analysis systems for power quality.

Solutions for Machine Condition Monitoring

Machine condition monitoring can help your organization stop unscheduled outages, optimize machine performance, and reduce repair time and maintenance costs. National Instruments provides both online embedded condition-based monitoring systems and more powerful factory test systems. NI hardware and software is being used right now in condition monitoring systems deployed on a variety of turbines, compressors, generators, and other industrial machines.

Solutions for Semiconductor Applications

The National Instruments graphical system design platform addresses semiconductor test challenges by combining a rapidly expanding portfolio of world-class measurement instrumentation and highly productive software with the best of commercially available semiconductor and computer technologies.