National Instruments: Measurement & Control

Making the Job of the Engineer Easier

National Instruments provides a visual, intuitive programming environment that unleashes the power of FPGAs for solving large-scale problems. By better equipping engineers, NI speeds the processes surrounding innovation and discovery. Today, NI solutions transform the design, prototyping, and deployment of systems for measurement, automation, and embedded applications—systems that literally improve peoples’ lives and the planet Earth.

"From the start, our two companies have been extremely well aligned. Our common mindset around innovation has allowed us to do extraordinary things. We aimed to help solve amazingly difficult problems, and our customers accomplishments are the testimony to our joint success."

– Keith Odom, R&D Fellow at National Instruments, Austin, Texas

Executive Summary
Design Challenges
  • Help engineers work more productively
  • Bring embedded application designs to market faster
  • Give non-experts simplified access to the power of programmable logic
Solution
  • Extend the LabVIEW language to Xilinx FPGAs
  • Offer affordable development and deployment platforms with integrated Xilinx FPGAs
Business Results
  • Intuitive, visual programming that boosts productivity for more than 30,000 companies
  • More than 60 flagship NI RIO hardware products that have enabled innovation
  • Smooth application roadmap, with maximized portability and choice of best target system
  • Continual advancements for NI-Xilinx customer bases including the development of extensible processing platforms
 
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