什么是LabVIEW？

NI LabVIEW是 一种使用图标代替文本行编写程序的图形化编程语言，用于快速创建灵活的、可升级的测试、测量和控制应用程序。使用LabVIEW，工程师和科学家们可以采集到实际信号，并对其进行分析得出有用信息，然后将测量结果和应用程序进行分享。无论您是否有相关经验，使用LabVIEW，您都可以方便快捷地开发测量程序。

LabVIEW的主要优势：

• 图形化编程

• 多种开发工具

• 内置测量和控制函数

• 范围广泛的计算对象

LabVIEW开发系统附加工具:

• 应用部署模块
  将所开发的LabVIEW应用程序发布到远程的设备上运行。

• 软件工程和优化工具
  完善程序构架，提高程序效能。

• 数据管理及视觉化
  创建专业的报告，并有效的存储您的数据以备后续分析之用。

• 实时和FPGA部署
  开发确定性的LabVIEW实时应用程序

• 嵌入式系统部署
  用图形化的开发方式设计应用程序并下载到目标硬件上运行。

• 信号处理和分析
  在您的应用程序中使用高级分析函数

• 自动化测试
  使用LabVIEW开发自动化测试系统

• 图像采集和机器视觉
  在您的应用中集成视觉和检测系统

• 控制设计与仿真
  设计并分析自定义控制系统

• 工业控制
  用这些附加工具创建分布式监控应用

LabVIEW的发展历程

LabVIEW 7.1

• Data Acquisition Readers' Choice Award
• Electronics Weekly Product of the Week Award
• Engineering for You Readers' Choice Award
• European Industry Award "Product of the Year" for 2004
• Evaluation Engineering Readers' Choice Awards
• IAN Automation Excellence Award
• Instrument Control Readers' Choice Award
• Scientific Computing Instrumentation 2004 Readers' Choice Awards
• Scientific Computing Instrumentation 2004 Top Products in Data Acquisition
• Scientific Computing Instrumentation 2005 Readers' Choice Awards
• Start Magazine Technology Enabler Award

LabVIEW 7 Express

• Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award
• Design News Best Product of the Year Finalist
• EDN 100 Hot Products of 2003
• EDN Innovation of the Year Award in Test and Measurement
• Electronic Design Top 50 Milestones for the Electronics Industry, Invention of LabVIEW
• Electronic Products 2004 Product of the Year
• Electronics for You (India) Readers' Choice Award for Best Design and Simulation Software
• Eletronik (Germany) 2004 Test and Measurement Product of the Year (runner-up)
• Evaluation Engineering Readers' Choice Award
• IAN Automation Excellence Award
• NASA Tech Briefs 2004 Product of the Year
• NASA Tech Briefs Readers' Choice 2004 Product of the Year Award
• Scientific Computing Instrumentation Editor's Choice Award
• Sensors Expo Best of Show Awards Gold Winner

LabVIEW 6.1

• Electronic Design readers named the invention of LabVIEW one of the top 50 milestones for the industry
• IAN Automation Excellence Award
• Scientific Computing Instrumentation Readers' Choice Award for Data Acquisition and Instrument Control Software, and finalist award for Programming Language

LabVIEW 6i

• Control Engineering Editor's Choice Award
• Design News 2000 Product of the Year Finalist
• ECN Best New Software Product of the Year, 2000
• ECN Best of the Web in Test and Measurement, 2000
• Evaluation Engineering Reader's Choice Award
• Scientific Computing Instrumentation Editor's Choice
• Scientific Computing Instrumentation Top 5 Products of the Year, Data Acquisition Software
• Scientific Computing Instrumentation Reader's Choice Award, Instrument Control and Data Acquisition Software
• VXIbus and PXI Newsletter Best New Software Products

LabVIEW 5

• Evaluation Engineering Best Software Product of 1999
• NASA Tech Briefs 1999 Product of the Year
• Test Measurement World 1999 Test Product of the Year
• The International Data Group (Romania) Award of Excellence

Previous Versions of LabVIEW

• Canadian Electronics Product Innovation Award runner-up, Measurement and Instrumentation category, 1992
• Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award, 1995
• Design News Best Products of 1992 (runner-up)
• Laboratory Equipment Readers' Choice Award f