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What Is LabVIEW?

LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment engineers use to develop automated research, validation, and production test systems.

LabVIEW

PRODUCT FEATURES
Programming like your
drawing a flow chart

LabVIEW has what you need to build automated test systems, fast.

-Thousands of available analysis functions

-Configurable, interactive display elements

-Drivers for automating every instrument and

data acquisition hardware

-Connectivity to other languages and

industry-standard protocols

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LABVIEW APPLICATIONS
What Can I Do
with LabVIEW?

For the past 35 years, LabVIEW has been engineers’ tool of choice for developing automated test systems. From performing a simple voltage measurement to advancing space missions, discover how LabVIEW can advance your next project:

LabVIEW Editions

LabVIEW is available in three editions and is a part of the Test Workflow bundle, which scale in features and capabilities to meet your application requirements. Consider the Test Workflow bundle for LabVIEW and more NI Software. Licenses are sold as one-year subscriptions that include access to online training, degreed engineers for technical support, and software updates.

LabVIEW Editions

LabVIEW Base

Recommended for building simple test and measurement applications.
Includes the standard capabilities of LabVIEW:

-Acquire data from NI and third-party hardware and communicate using industry protocols
-Create interactive UIs for test monitoring and control.
-Utilize standard math, probability, and statistical functions
-Integrate code written in Python, C/C++, .NET, and MathWorks MATLAB® software
-Save data to .csv, .tdms, or any custom-defined binary file

Test Workflow Standard

Recommended for applications that require hardware automation, data analysis, automated reporting, and remote access to test.

Includes:

-LabVIEW Full, with tools for advanced analysis and signal processing
-G Web Development Software, for building web applications for test
-DIAdem Advanced, for measurement data search, visualization, analysis, and creating automated reports
-FlexLogger, for performing data acquisition with NI hardware without needing to do any coding

Test Workflow Pro

Recommended for building simple test and measurement applications.
Includes the standard capabilities of LabVIEW:

-Acquire data from NI and third-party hardware and communicate using industry protocols
-Create interactive UIs for test monitoring and control.
-Utilize standard math, probability, and statistical functions
-Integrate code written in Python, C/C++, .NET, and MathWorks MATLAB® software
-Save data to .csv, .tdms, or any custom-defined binary file

Advantages of Standardizing on LabVIEW

LabVIEW is the key for accelerating test. After selecting NI, with LabVIEW as the foundation for test, L3 has increased its engineering performance with improvements in development time, downtime, and code reuse.

9X

Improvement in development times

50%

Reduction of beta test downtime

80%

Code reuse across similar products

UPGRADE LabVIEW 
What’s New in LabVIEW?

LabVIEW is the tool the test industry has relied on for decades. However, LabVIEW’s innate benefits, combined with renewed investment, makes the next ten years, not the last, the most exciting for users. Time-to-market, product complexity and resource pressure force development productivity to be prioritized, giving LabVIEW users a significant advantage! 

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