National Instruments LabVIEW 2011 software

LabVIEW 2011, the 25th-anniversary version of the system design software, is claimed to accelerate the productivity of engineers and scientists who develop and deploy measurement and control systems.

The software may 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 CompactRIO controller and the PXIe-5665, RF vector signal analyser.

The package makes it possible for engineers to achieve productivity gains in a variety of tasks, including: quickly develop contemporary user interfaces with a new silver palette of controls and indicators; re-use code with support for the latest .NET assemblies, .m structures and 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.