Scientists and Engineers Can Now Visualize Data Collection and Analysis
Using LabVIEW on Windows-Based PCs or Sun SPARCstations

New Graphical Programming System Portable between Popular Industry-Standard
Computers

September 1, 1992 -- Austin, TX-National Instruments announced today that
its award-winning LabVIEW graphical programming software, available on
Macintosh computers since 1986, is now available on two other
industry-standard computers - PCs running Microsoft Windows, and Sun
Microsystems SPARCstations running MIT's X Window System or OpenWindows.
With LabVIEW for Windows and LabVIEW software for Sun systems, engineers
and scientists build software modules called virtual instruments (VIs)
instead of writing cryptic text-based programs. The software is a
general-purpose programming tool with extensive libraries for data
acquisition, instrument control, data analysis, and data presentation.
Typical LabVIEW applications include laboratory automation, automated
testing, automotive and aerospace engineering, process monitoring and
control, physiological monitoring, and personal instrumentation.

Both new versions of LabVIEW feature a library of ready-to-use controls,
graphs, and strip charts for quickly and easily building custom user
interfaces and control panels. With LabVIEW, users build block diagrams as
the executable programs. Icon libraries include GPIB, VXI, and Instrument
Driver VI libraries for controlling over 100 GPIB, VXI, and RS-232
instruments using the company's interface hardware; and Analysis VI
libraries for performing data analysis, including routines ranging from
simple statistics to advanced digital signal processing (DSP). LabVIEW for
Windows also has a Data Acquisition VI Library for controlling the
company's PC plug-in data acquisition, DSP, and signal conditioning
hardware. Applications developed for either of these new platforms are
completely portable to the other.

System Requirements The minimum configuration for LabVIEW for Windows is a
386 PC with a 387 coprocessor, 8 megabytes RAM, 10 megabytes hard disk
space, Microsoft Windows 3.1, and DOS 5.0. A Super VGA display and a
Windows 3.1 compatible graphics accelerator are recommended.

The minimum configuration for LabVIEW for Sun is a SPARCstation with 24
megabytes main memory, 32 megabytes disk swap space, and 10 megabytes disk
space (for the application and associated files). LabVIEW for Sun will run
under MIT's X Window System, Version 11, Release 4 or 5 or OpenWindows
Version 3. It does not require Motif or OPEN LOOK.

Price and Availability 

LabVIEW for Windows will be available in September from National
Instruments for $1995. This full development system includes The Data
Acquisition VI Library, GPIB VI Library, Instrument Driver VI Library,
Analysis VI Libraries, and CIN (Code Interface Node) Toolkit. A base
package, available for $995, includes all of the VI libraries except the
Advanced Analysis VI Library and the CIN Toolkit. The VXI VI Library sells
separately for $495.

LabVIEW for Sun will be available in September from National Instruments
for $3995 for a single-user, floating license. It includes the GPIB VI
Library, Instrument Driver VI Library, Analysis VI Libraries, VXI VI
Library, and CIN Toolkit. Mulli-user site licensing will also be
available.

For more information, please contact the company at 6504 Bridge Point
Parkway, Austin, TX 78730-5039, (512) 794-0100. Call toll-free in the U.S.
and Canada at (800) 433-3488. Fax: (512) 794-8411.

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