As hardware designers turn toward multicore processors to improve computing power, software programmers must find new programming strategies that harness the power of parallel computing. One technique ...

National Instruments recently announced the availability of NI LabVIEW, a version of LabVIEW graphical programming environment for The Infinity Project. The LabVIEW program is designed to aid The ...

Recently, the space industry has been becoming more and more commercialized. New space companies with great new ideas and projects are arising. At the core of many space-related projects are rocket ...

National Instrument's LabVIEW is over 20 years old but most programmers have not had the benefit of using it. There are a host of UML (Unified Modeling Language) programmers but most tend to deal with ...

Yaskawa Motoman has released a new interface supporting NI LabVIEW programming of Motoman industrial robots. Developed in collaboration with National Instruments and ImagingLab, the library allows ...

Processors found in video-game machines are doubling as platforms for test and instrumentation software. Charmed Labs LLC of Hawthorne, N.J., bases a robot controller for students on the Game Boy ...

The Geiger-Muller (GM) tube allows a user to measure different types of radiation, including alpha, beta, x, and gamma particles. A GM tube consists of one anode and one cathode enclosed in a ...