LabVIEW 8.6 graphical system design software platform

National Instruments has released LabVIEW 8.6, the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development.

Building on the inherent parallel nature of graphical programming, LabVIEW 8.6 delivers new tools to help engineers and scientists take advantage of the benefits of multicore processors, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and wireless communication.

Features released with the latest version of LabVIEW allow engineers, scientists and technicians to:

• Interact with LabVIEW applications using any web-enabled device; convert LabVIEW applications into web services on desktop and real-time hardware that they can access from any web-enabled device such as smart phones and PCs;
• Acquire and analyse data from remote systems with wireless technology; engineers now can configure data acquisition applications easily to use NI Wi-Fi data acquisition hardware without making code changes in LabVIEW 8.6.