National Instruments Introduces LabVIEW 2011
NI发布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——美国国家仪器发布了NI LabVIEW 2011，其系统设计软件的25周年版本。LabVIEW 将加速提升工程师与科学家研发和部署测量和控制系统的效率，以解决一些世界上最艰巨的工程挑战。LabVIEW 2011通过新的工程专用库以及其对几乎任何硬件设备和部署目标的交互能力极大地增加了效率，包括新的多核 NI CompactRIO 控制器及当今业界性能最强大的射频向量信号分析器之一的 NI PXIe-5665。LabVIEW 2011还支持最新的微软.NET框架内置的组件，并且采纳用户的直接反馈而包含了众多新特性。综合以上和其他优势，LabVIEW 2011 能够帮助工程师将单独的系统部件集成为一个统一并可重配置的平台，从而让工程更快，更出色，成本也更低地完成他们的工作。
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 使得工程师在多种任务下极大地提高效率，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
•快速的开发视觉化效果，包括控件及显示银色新面板的流行用户界面
•可重用的代码，包括对最新的 .NET 组件、.m 结构的支持，以及新的 Xilinx IP 的 LabVIEW FPGA 模块
•最快可达原先5倍的 FPGA 代码载入、连线、编辑及编译
•程序的可编程建立及部署于目标的可执行文件
•通过新的通信API 可大量生成异步线程以创建更快的多线程应用
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.
利用其关键任务应用的稳定性以及对众多工业领先硬件的简化集成能力，LabVIEW 2011给予测量和控制系统设计者们强大的信心，在已证明了的架构条件下高效地创新。
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.
一旦结合硬件模块， LabVIEW 2011 是实现 NI 图形化系统设计方法的核心，为设计、原型制作和发布提供了最高效的统一平台。工程师和科学家几乎在每个工业领域都使用图形化系统设计，从基本测量应用到最复杂先进的研究项目。
“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公司创始人之一兼LabVIEW 发明者Jeff Kodosky 表示：“25年前，我们创建了 LabVIEW 来帮助工程师们从复杂的编程及系统集成问题中解脱出来，专注于创新，而今天，LabVIEW 已经变成了测量和控制领域首选的图形化系统设计软件。每一次软件版本的更新，不论是无缝集成最新的硬件，还是添加新的函数库和 API，以及新增基于用户反馈的新特性，我们的主要目的依然是在所有工程环境中提高应用效率。”
“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.”
美国 Lawrence Livermore 国家实验室国家点火设施（NIF）——先进聚变研究基地，也是世界上最强大的激光器之一——的工程师Glenn Larkin表示：“我们使用 LabVIEW 后，系统的研发时间与传统方法相比降低了三分之一。我们计划继续在更多的NIF设施中使用 LabVIEW 及 NI 的硬件，使得我们可以在未来的项目中实现相同的效率。”
about National Instruments
关于国家仪器公司
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.
美国国家仪器有限公司致力于为测量、自动化和嵌入式应用领域的工程师和科学家们从设计、原型到发布系统带来革命性的理念。NI为遍布全球各地的30000家不同的客户提供现成即用的软件，如NI LabVIEW，以及高性价比的模块化硬件。2010年，NI最大的客户占营收的大约4%，没有任何一个行业超过总营收的15%。NI总部设在美国德克萨斯州的奥斯汀，在超过40个国家和地区设有分支机构，共拥有5500余名员工。在过去连续12年里，NI被《财富》杂志评选为“美国最适合工作的100家公司之一”。
