Engineering Software supports NI's DAQ hardware.
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Visual Engineering Environment Pro v7.5 offers access to NI's PXI, SCXI, and PC plug-in DAQ cards and modular instruments. It also provides seamless access to MS Excel and .NET controls and functions. Graphical programming environment facilitates development of measurement and control, analysis, test-system, and DAQ applications. Included sample programs enable users to set up and take measurements then analyze, display, and store data, all within 3 min.
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Agilent Technologies' VEE Pro 7.5 Supports National Instruments' Data-Acquisition Hardware
VEE Pro 7.5 features open connectivity for increased productivity
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 2, 2005
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its Visual Engineering Environment (VEE) Pro 7.5 software now has easy access to National Instruments' data-acquisition hardware products, including PXI, SCXI and PC plug-in data-acquisition cards and modular instruments. VEE Pro 7.5 also adds seamless access to Microsoft(r) Excel and to .NET controls and functions.
Agilent VEE Pro, named one of EDN Magazine's "Hot 100 Products of 2004," is a highly intuitive, graphical programming environment that helps speed development of measurement and control, analysis, test-system and data-acquisition applications in industries including aerospace and defense, wireless and consumer electronics. VEE is a key software product of Agilent Open, a program that provides a broad range of system-ready instruments, open industry software and PC-standard I/O, that simplify the process of connecting and programming test systems so engineers can focus on solving engineering problems, rather than creating and managing test systems.
"Agilent VEE Pro has proven to be a highly productive test software development environment for programmers and non-programmers alike," said Mark Pierpoint, vice president of Agilent's Measurement and Analysis Software Group. "Version 7.5's new capabilities allow engineers to work in their environment of choice -- a key component of the Agilent Open program."
In VEE Pro 7.5, National Instruments' data-acquisition products appear as devices in VEE's Instrument Manager. They can be accessed easily through an interface much like a standard VXIplug&play driver, with function panels to simplify programming. VEE Pro 7.5 includes seamless, menu-driven communications with Microsoft Excel, enabling quick creation of spreadsheets for presenting measurement data and test results. In addition, VEE 7.5 allows users to incorporate Microsoft .NET controls into graphical user interfaces and provides wizard-like tools to simplify using the .NET Framework as well as IVI-COM drivers. VEE Pro supports instruments and devices from all vendors, and version 7.5 adds 40 new sample programs for 150 top Agilent instruments to enable users to set up and take measurements then analyze, display and store data, all within 3 minutes.
More information, including online demonstrations and access to fully functional free VEE Pro evaluation software, is available at www.agilent.com/find/veeinfo. Information about other Agilent software is at www.agilent.com/find/software.
About Agilent Open
Agilent Open simplifies the process of connecting and programming test systems to help engineers design, validate and manufacture electronic products. Agilent combines a broad range of system-ready instruments, open industry software, PC-standard I/O and global support to accelerate test system development. More information is available at www.agilent.com/find/open.
U.S. Pricing and Availability
Agilent VEE Pro 7.5 is expected to be available in June, priced at $1,495. Upgrades for previous versions of VEE Pro are also available, with prices starting at $495. Agilent VEE Pro can be downloaded at www.agilent.com/find/vee.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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