LabWindows/CVI Inside NI - Q4 2009: Introducing LabWindows/CVI 2009

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LabWindows/CVI 2009 includes enhanced productivity tools and introduces a new toolkit for run-time analysis and optimization. LabWindows/CVI 2009 also includes support for new technologies such as the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, 64-bit application development and deployment, and provides a new interface for communicating with NI PXI FPGA-based hardware including FlexRIO and R Series data acquisition modules.

Visit the What's New page to see a full list of the new features in LabWindows/CVI 2009 that will help users create more reliable applications in a shorter amount of time and take advantage of new PC technologies. Some of the new features include:

Execution Profiler Toolkit

Analyze and optimize the performance of applications with a graphical representation of how time is being spent at run time, and easily detect bottlenecks in source code.

Attribute Browser

Design custom user interfaces in a shorter amount of time by simultaneously selecting and editing common attributes of multiple controls with the integrated attribute browser.

Extended Debug Data

Debug more efficiently and ensure application reliability with added information, for certain data types, in the variables and watch windows.

64-Bit Support

Improve the run-time performance of memory-intensive applications and take full advantage of the capabilities of 64-bit operating systems with added support for creating 64-bit executables, DLLs, and deployment installers.

C Interface to LabVIEW FPGA

Design deterministic and reliable algorithms in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware without the burden of learning hardware description languages (HDLs) or digital design. The C Interface to LabVIEW FPGA provides C/C++ programmers with an easy interface to FPGA hardware through host application development.

Windows 7 Support

Easily migrate existing LabWindows/CVI applications and take advantage of new PC technologies with added hardware, driver, and development environment support for the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.