National Instruments LabVIEW 2011 design software

LabVIEW 2011, the 25th anniversary of this system design software, has been released.

This latest version can increase development efficiency through new engineering-specific libraries and an ability to interact with almost any hardware device or deployment target, including the multicore CompactRIO controller and the PXIe-5665.

It also supports assemblies built in the latest Microsoft .NET framework and includes numerous features driven directly from user feedback.

The package can: quickly develop visual, contemporary user interfaces with a silver palette of controls and indicators; re-use 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.