Software generates code for any application.
Press Release Summary:
LabVIEW State Diagram Toolkit for LabVIEW 7 Express helps engineers interactively design well-architected, maintainable applications. User can build state diagrams by dragging and dropping graphical representations of application's states and transitions in visual editing space. As engineer creates state diagram, toolkit automatically generates corresponding LabVIEW code that serves as application framework.
Original Press Release:
LabVIEW State Diagram Toolkit Generates Well-Structured Code for Any Application
AUSTIN, Texas - NIWeek, Aug. 19, 2003 - National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) today announced the LabVIEW State Diagram Toolkit, code-generating software for LabVIEW 7 Express that helps engineers interactively design well-architected, maintainable applications. With this toolkit, engineers use state diagrams to easily build applications that perform at optimal execution speeds.
State diagrams visually represent an application's high-level
functionality, making even large applications easy to interpret.
Using the LabVIEW State Diagram Toolkit, engineers easily build state diagrams by dragging and dropping graphical representations of their application's states and transitions in a visual editing space. Engineers can include an unlimited number of states, define how the application transitions from one state to another and set the start and end states without programming. For example, an automotive engineer can easily draw out the functionality of a manual transmission using five states to represent the gears and the appropriate number of transitions to represent possible shifts between those gears. As an engineer creates a state diagram, the toolkit automatically generates corresponding LabVIEW code that serves as the application framework, significantly reducing development time.
To modify an application, engineers make code changes in a single area, unlike applications created from traditional state diagram frameworks that require code changes in many areas for each modification. The intuitive visual depiction of the application structure makes the application easy to follow, so even engineers who did not originally create the application can easily maintain it over time.
About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation - a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for customers worldwide through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,000 employees and direct operations in 40 countries. In 2002, the company sold products to more than 25,000 different companies in more than 80 countries around the world. Readers may obtain investment information from the company's investor relations department at (512) 683-5090, by sending e-mail to nati@ni.com or on the Web at http://www.ni.com/nati.
Pricing and Contact Information
LabVIEW State Diagram Toolkit
Priced at $995
Web: http://www.ni.com/labview
11500 N Mopac Expwy, Austin, Texas 78759-3504
Tel: (800) 258-7022, Fax: (512) 683-9300
E-mail: info@ni.com
