Who is National Instruments?
• Culture & Philosophy
• 3 Decades of Products
• A closer look at current Products
• The Next Decade
NI’s Culture & Philosophy
• The 100 year plan
• 7 years Top 100 Places to work
• Cubicles for everyone
• Involved with the Community
• Leverage Standards
• Who are our Customers?
• Who are our Competitors?
History – First Decade (1976-1985)
• 1976 – Jim Truchard’s Garage
• GPIB for PDP-11 was first
• 1981 - $1M in Revenue
• 1985 IBM Quality Award
• 2 of 3 founders are still active
– “Dr T” - President / CEO
– Jeff Kodosky – Father of LabVIEW
History – Second Decade (1986-1995)
• LabVIEW 1.0 premiers in 1986 on a Mac
• LabWindows 1.0 premiers in 1987 on DOS
• NI starts making measurement H/W – DAQ in 1987
• Early 90’s – VXI takes off
• Launched www.natinst.com and went Public (NATI) in
1995
• LabWindows/CVI available of MS Win
• LabVIEW available on Mac, MS Win & Solaris
History – Third Decade (1996-now)
• Entered Motion Control and Machine Vision markets
• PXI is born in 1997
• LabVIEW Real-time launches in 1999
• Measurement Studio launches in 2000
• Hungarian Plant opens in 2002
• Big Year in 2003
– LabVIEW for FPGA, PDA, DSP
– Acquisition of MatrixX
– Released many modular instruments for PXI
• Acquisition of Electronics Workbench
• LabVIEW turned 20 & CVI turned 19 in 2006
Instrument Control
• GPIB
• VXI & VME
• PXI
• LAN – IEEE-1588
• USB
• Unified with VISA
Data Acquisition
• XT => AT => PCI => PCIe
• Lower Cost
– USB-6008 - $159
– PCI-6010 - $359
• Lots of USB
• Isolated MIO
• Industrial Voltages
• Compact DAQ
Other Software
• Development Environments
– CVI
– Measurement Studio
• Special Purpose
– TestStand
– Diadem
– Signal Express
PXI Instruments
• RF VSA and VSG – 2.7 GHz
• 7 ½ DMM
• 24 Bit Dynamic Signal Analyzers
• Programmable Power Supply – Source Measurement
• Flex II Digitizer - 24 Bits @ 15MSa/s
• 2 GSa/s Digitizer
• Switching up to 26 GHz
• Lots of 3rd party stuff: Boundary Scan, 1553, ARINC, Etc
Modular Instrument Solutions
• Zigbee WPAN compliance test
• Portable RF Antenna Testing System
• Characterize A/D with LVDS
• RF Record and Playback System
• High Digitizers used in Production Test System for
Xbox 360 Controllers
• Generating Noise and Interference for DSL Design
Validation and Test
• Boeing Measures Reduced Aircraft Noise
Emissions
Industrial Automation
• PAC – Programmable Automation Controller
– Combination of a PLC and PC
• Communicate with PLCs
– Modbus Serial and IP
– OPC
• DSC for (Data logging and Supervisory Control)
• CAN, DeviceNET, Foundation FieldBus, Profibus
LabVIEW Real Time
– Targets
• Field Point
• Compact RIO
• PXI
• Compact Vision System
– Interesting Deployments
• DARPA Grand Challenge
• Flight Simulation Model Development
• Remote-Controlled CASE CX-160 Excavator
• Falling Objects Sensing System
LabVIEW FPGA
– Targets
• Compact RIO
• RIO PCI-DAQ
• IF-RIO
– Interesting Deployments
• Laser Photocoagulation
• ECU for Motorcycle
• Two Wheeled Balancing Transport Platform
• Sea Bed Dredging
• Steel Rolling Application
Future – The Next Decade
• Graphical System Design
Design
Prototype
Deploy
• More Modular Instruments leveraging PCIexpress
• LabVIEW Embedded / DSP
Thank You!