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  • NI Connect Virtual Event

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    Join us online for NI Connect

    July 27-28, 2021

     

    NI Connect is a free digital event experience designed for engineers looking to explore the latest trends in test and data analytics. Join us to hear the latest stories from peers who Engineer AmbitiouslyTm, including inspiring demos and new product announcements. We are ready for you to join NI R&D to have your technical questions answered. NI Connect helps you discover how NI and our partners can help you succeed.

    Event Details

    We miss seeing you in-person, but we’re excited to connect with you online and bring a great experience to your screen. Register today!

     

    This isn’t your typical all-day virtual event. We know you’re busy, so we’ve designed this event to be more accessible and optimized for online viewing and participation than ever before. Join us for a half-day experience that provides a mix of innovation, collaboration, and learning opportunities at times convenient for participants around the globe. The best part? You can join right from your office, home office, living room, mobile phone…literally from anywhere.

     

    Americas July 27, 2021 / 10:00 am – 2:00pm Central Daylight Time (CDT)

    Asia Pacific July 28, 2021 / 9:00 am – 1:00 pm China Standard Time (CST)

    EMEA July 28, 2021 / 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)

     

    Can’t join us live? All registrants receive on-demand access following the event.

     

    Who Should Attend

    Engineers at all levels can benefit from the sessions. Business-decision makers, solutions architects, developers, engineers and aspiring engineers are all welcome.

     

    What to Expect from NI Connect 2021

    • Engineers from around the globe coming together to help shape what's next
    • Cutting-edge research, insights and the latest trends in test and data analytics to help you Engineer Ambitiously
    • Learn from and network with industry thought leaders and peers
    • NI’s latest product innovations

    Special Event Features

    LIVE Opening Keynote

    We will kick off the event with a can’t miss LIVE opening address hosted by Eric Starkloff, NI president and chief executive officer, and featuring other special guests.

    New Product Technical Sessions

    Attend 30-minute technical sessions on NI’s newest products.

    Industry Trends & Insights Sessions

    Explore the technologies that will enable engineers and enterprise to push the envelope in technology development over the next 10 years and beyond.

    R&D Expert Bar

    Connect with the brilliant minds behind NI’s products in a 60-minute live Q&A session! Don’t miss your opportunity to directly engage with engineers developing NI products, get advice, provide feedback, or talk technical. These sessions are limited! Meetings must be requested in advance of the event, and must be requested separately from your event registration. Request your meeting here.

     

  • 5 Best Practices for Maximizing DC Measurement Performance

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    Whether you are testing power management ICs or RF power amplifiers, taking quality DC measurements is a cornerstone of testing semiconductor chips. Improve measurement accuracy and product quality by applying these foundational best practices.

     

    Click here to read more and get access to technical white paper.

  • LabVIEW Community Edition

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    This surprise was definitely not expected by anybody in the audience of GDevCon#2: NI announced LabVIEW Community Edition! This new, free version of LabVIEW is for noncommercial, nonacademic use.

     

    Eric Reffett, the LabVIEW and LabVIEW NXG planning lead, literally went the extra mile(s) by traveling to the UK to announce the new NI product offering and answer questions.

     

    As part of its commitment to empowering the LabVIEW community, NI revealed this huge news at a community event instead of an NI conference. As a board member of GDevCon Limited, I was excited that NI chose GDevCon#2, an independent conference open to all graphical developers, to unveil its LabVIEW Community Edition.

     

     

    What exactly is this new edition?

     

    LabVIEW Community Edition features all the functionality of LabVIEW Professional Edition, including the ability to help you build and deploy executables. Most importantly, it is completely free and does not have any watermarks on it. In a nutshell:

     

    • All the features of LabVIEW Professional Edition for free; no watermarks
    • Compatibility with both LabVIEW 2020 and LabVIEW NXG
    • Noncommercial and nonacademic usage
    • Annual activation to maintain access
    • A release date of May 2020 (a beta will be available in November 2019)

     

    Is it free, as in beer?

    Yes, but you must use it only for noncommercial and nonacademic projects. According to the NI End User License Agreement (EULA), “If you have acquired a license to LabVIEW Community Edition or LabVIEW NXG Community Edition, you may use the Software solely for your personal, noncommercial, nonindustrial purposes. You may not use the Software for teaching or research at a degree-granting educational institution.” Using LabVIEW Community Edition at a place of business or to create test systems, exe's, toolkits, and so on that you intend to make money from would not be consistent with the permissions of the EULA. Similarly, students, educators, and researchers would break the EULA if they used LabVIEW Community Edition to work on coursework or research for an academic institution. Users must purchase a license for commercial and academic use cases. LabVIEW Community Edition’s licensing policies are the same as NI‘s current licensing policies.

    Who’s it for?

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    LabVIEW Community Edition is for anybody not pursuing commercial goals but wanting to get creative using a graphical programming language. For example, you can work on a private project on your PC at home and then take it to work to commercialise it using your commercially licensed copy of LabVIEW. Potential use cases include:

    • Home hobbyist projects
    • Free projects or add-ons for the community
    • Preparation work for certifications
    • Skill upkeep; exploration of new ideas outside work

    LabVIEW Community Edition also allows students and academics to install and use LabVIEW in situations that their academic site licenses don’t cover. They can install it on their PCs and use it at home.

     

    What about hobbyist hardware?

     

    To ensure this edition of LabVIEW works well for hobbyists, NI updated the LINX Toolkit for supporting hobbyist hardware targets like BeagleBone, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino and bundled it with LabVIEW Community Edition. The toolkit is part of the community edition‘s platform release.

     

    More importantly, the no-commercial-projects limitation for the LINX toolkit has been removed, so you can tinker around with your hobby projects using LabVIEW Community Edition at home and then take your work to the office to industrialize and commercialize your hobby projects with a commercially licensed version of LabVIEW.

     

     

     

    When will it be available?

     

    NI will release a beta version of LabVIEW Community Edition in November of this year, at the same time as LabVIEW 2019 SP1, through the Technology Preview Program (all normal disclaimers regarding software timelines apply). NI’s first full release of LabVIEW Community Edition is scheduled for May 2020.

     

    A beta version of the LINX Toolkit is available now on the Tech Preview, but the first full release is also scheduled for May 2020. You can learn more by viewing NI’s Software Technology Preview website.

     

    In case you’re wondering, though the Technology Preview Program requests a valid SN with an active SSP contract, this is not required for the LabVIEW Community Edition Beta.

     

    Edit November 13: The Beta of LabVIEW Community Edition is now available at ni.com/beta!

     

    What does this mean for the LabVIEW Community?

     

    Saying that I’m excited about this doesn’t do my emotional state any justice at all. I’m thrilled! I do believe that NI’s bold step might finally give LabVIEW the chance it deserves to grow its user base on a really large scale.

     

    It’s obvious that giving software away for free lowers the entry barrier for those tinkerers, students, and hobbyists who are already in love with LabVIEW but who do not already own an appropriate license for it.

     

    The LabVIEW ecosystem will benefit greatly from this strategic move—probably way more than from anything else ever done in that regard. The effects that I hope this will have on growing the community go way beyond the obvious increase in LabVIEW users. Growing the user base will make the community a better place for all of us. We will see more tools, not only from NI and the LabVIEW community but also from third parties who will take greater interest in our expanding graphical programming world. Eventually, we might see all sorts of tools pop up supporting LabVIEW and the G language—tools that other, text-based languages have been leveraging for years.

     

    As an entrepreneur, I expect to benefit from the growing number of potential customers. But even more, I hope to see more people use LabVIEW—or at least be fairly familiar with it—which eventually enlarges our pool of potential employees. How great is that?

     

    Feedback

     

    Finally, take a few minutes and let NI know how you will leverage LabVIEW Community Edition by taking this short poll:  http://bit.ly/LabVIEWCommunityPoll

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