Program Contents

Conference Highlights Technical Tracks

3 Welcome Letter from Dr. James Truchard 44 advanced Technical Sessions

4 Keynote Presentations 45 Hands-On Technical Sessions

6 Conference Information 46 sound and Vibration Sessions

7 social Media @NIWeek 47 structural Test and Monitoring Sessions

8 evening Activities 48 Can’t Miss LabVIEW Sessions

9 networking Activities 51 embedded Design Track

10 new Products 54 Industrial Measurements and Control Track

57 software Development Techniques Track

Special Events 62 test and Data Acquisition Track 16 Big Physics Symposium (NEW)

18 academic Forum Exhibition and Sponsors

22 Business Forum (NEW) 71 exhibition Hall Floor Map

24 Community Exchange (NEW) 72 national Instruments Product Showcase

26 graphical System Design Achievement Awards 74 technology Theater

28 Industry Experts Panel 76 Connect @NIWeek Lounge

29 training and Certification 78 Pavilions

84 Exhibitors

Technical Summits 90 Sponsors 33 robotics and Autonomous Vehicles Summit

36 energy Technology Summit (NEW)

38 military and Aerospace Summit

40 rF and Wireless Test Summit

42 Vision Summit

1 Conference Overview

Dear Colleague,

Welcome to NIWeek 2010! Over the next few days, you and more than 3,000 fellow innovators, educators, engineers, scientists, and NI developers will explore the exciting technologies that are helping make the world a better place.

NIWeek gives you opportunities to network with others who are not waiting for the future to come – they are making it a reality now. From increasing efficiencies in countless design, test, and control applications to developing emerging technologies and educating future innovators, people like you are using graphical system design, virtual instrumentation, and modular hardware to revolutionize the way the world works.

NIWeek 2010 offers more than 250 interactive technical sessions and hands-on workshops, demonstrations of the latest NI products, continuing education units and certification exams, a massive exhibition floor, and keynote presentations from some of today’s brightest minds.

With all this at your fingertips, remember to enjoy the sights and sounds of Austin, the “Live Music Capital of the World.” And be sure to visit ni.com/niweekcommunity for detailed information on what NIWeek 2010 has to offer and to stay connected throughout the year.

Thank you to all our sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees for participating in our 16th annual NIWeek – the world’s leading graphical system design conference and exhibition.

Sincerely,

James Truchard President, CEO, and Cofounder National Instruments

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Wednesday, August 4 8:30–10:00 a.m. Ballroom G

Jeff Kodosky, Cofounder and Business and Technology Fellow, National Instruments Join Jeff Kodosky, coinventor and “Father of LabVIEW” with more than 30 patented LabVIEW technologies, as he shares his vision for tackling challenging timing problems with LabVIEW, the future of graphical system design, and the possibilities it presents for engineers and scientists.

John Pasquarette, Vice President of Software Product Marketing, National Instruments In his 20 years with National Instruments, John Pasquarette has worked on many areas of The NIWeek keynote presentations give attendees a first glimpse at new, cutting-edge innovations from the company’s software platform as LabVIEW has expanded from a virtual instrumentation tool into embedded design and development, math and signal processing, and advanced National Instruments as well as an opportunity to learn about customers and real-world solutions using tools control. Watch as John and NI R&D engineers explore cutting-edge products and from NI. Kick-start each day of the conference with new product demonstrations by engineers and leaders technologies that enable new applications and change the way engineers and scientists from National Instruments and customer presentations in multiple application areas from industry to academia. design, build, and test complex systems.

Thursday, August 5 8:30–10:00 a.m. Ballroom G

Ray Almgren, Vice President of Software, Education, and Training, National Instruments Tuesday, August 3 8:30–10:00 a.m. Ballroom G As a 23-year NI veteran, Ray Almgren is the visionary behind the company’s efforts to create dynamic, hands-on engineering and science education that empowers the Dr. James Truchard, President, CEO, and Cofounder, National Instruments innovators of tomorrow. Join Ray and student teams from around the world as they Join Dr. James Truchard, who has served as CEO of National Instruments for 34 years showcase innovative solutions using graphical system design that tackle socially relevant and who coinvented the award-winning NI LabVIEW graphical programming software, engineering challenges. to kick off your NIWeek experience. Listen as he discusses the latest technologies, including timing and synchronization, streaming digital signal processor (DSP) design, and software-defined radios, to optimize graphical system designs around the world. Dr. Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist, City College of New York Physicist, professor, and author Dr. Michio Kaku holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City John Graff, Vice President of Marketing and Customer Operations and Vice President University of New York. He also has taught physics at Harvard and Princeton. He is the of Data Acquisition and Instrument Control, National Instruments cofounder of string field theory and has written doctorate-level textbooks that are required With more than 23 years of experience at National Instruments, John Graff directs an reading at many of the world’s leading physics laboratories. Dr. Kaku has appeared on integrated team of marketing and sales professionals who educate and support thousands the Larry King Show, 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Good Morning America and hosted numerous of customers worldwide. Watch him and NI R&D engineers as they unveil the latest documentaries on the Discovery Channel, Science Channel, and BBC about the future. products and technologies and explain why now, more than ever before, is the time to He has also interviewed more than 300 top scientists to provide the most accurate solve the world’s most advanced and complex problems. description of the next 20 years. His best-selling science books include Hyperspace, Visions, Parallel Worlds, Beyond Einstein, Einstein’s Cosmos, and Physics of the Impossible.

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On-Site Check-In Hours Stay Connected at NIWeek

Sunday, August 1 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 4 7:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m. NIWeek offers online networking opportunities so you can keep in touch with colleagues, NI developers, and thousands of new friends Monday, August 2 7:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Thursday, August 5 7:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. during the conference and beyond. Join the NIWeek Community at ni.com/niweekcommunity to experience the following:

Tuesday, August 3 7:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m. ■■ Get real-time conference updates ■■ Download code from top NIWeek demos

■■ Watch videos of expo floor demos ■■ Network with attendees Daily Continental Breakfast ■■ Read blog posts about conference activities ■■ Get access to session presentations

8:00–10:00 a.m. Ballroom Foyer

Daily Lunch

11:30 a.m.– 1:00 p.m. exhibition Hall ni.com/community Lunch is provided for full-conference attendees and Expo Plus Pass holders. Visit the NI Developer Community to share LabVIEW feature ideas, download example code, learn about Conference name badges are required for admission. cutting-edge technologies, and connect with a worldwide community of LabVIEW and other NI product experts who work on similar applications.

Afternoon Breaks Enjoy refreshments between sessions on the third floor outside Room 18. facebook.com/labview Want to be friends? Stay up to date on the latest news, case studies, events, and resources by “liking” Exhibition Hall Hours National Instruments, LabVIEW, or NIWeek on Facebook. Also, it is a great way to reconnect with fellow Monday, August 2 5:30–7:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 4 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. developers. Tuesday, August 3 10:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m. Thursday, August 5 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

twitter.com/labview National Instruments Campus Tour Broadcast brief messages to colleagues and other attendees from your laptop or mobile phone and receive Visit National Instruments headquarters to tour the manufacturing facilities and view the valuable conference information from National Instruments staff. Remember to type #niweek in your results of more than three decades of innovation. Discover how NI has integrated its message to send updates to the entire NIWeek Community on Twitter. campus into a native Texas landscape that promotes the NI culture. Also learn how NI reduces its environmental impact and creates a better world for employees, customers, and fellow global citizens.

Shuttle runs from the Austin Convention Center to National Instruments.

Thursday, August 5 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. austin Convention Center Registration Area youtube.com/labview View videos contributed by NI staff and other NIWeek attendees of cool product demonstrations from the NIWeek exhibition as well as interviews with NI leadership and industry experts.

Visit the NI Store Take the NIWeek experience home with you. Visit the NI Store, located near the dining area in the Exhibition Hall, to purchase NI merchandise including stylish men’s polos and bit.ly/NILinked other apparel. The store accepts American Express, MasterCard, and VISA. Make a lot of new contacts at NIWeek? Build your network of connections on LinkedIn and exchange Open during Exhibition Hall hours. information, ideas, and professional opportunities.

6 7 Evening Activities Networking Activities

By attending NIWeek, you have multiple opportunities to meet product experts, share best practices with engineers Texas Day Networking Luncheon working on similar applications, and exchange programming tips with LabVIEW Champions. Network and relax Texas Day attendees can join fellow Texans for a luncheon in the Exhibition Hall Café. At reserved tables, attendees are seated in industry with fellow NIWeek attendees at the following events: and product groups with fellow NI customers, NI engineers, and experts. Explore a variety of topics, discuss industry news, and gain firsthand knowledge on technology and insights for best practices to tackle your projects, applications, and business challenges. Designed to expand your skills in the area of your choice, tables are organized around key Texas industries and common applications in test, measurement, and control. Industry topics include energy, semiconductor, military/aerospace, RF and wireless test, and academia.

Tuesday, August 3 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. exhibition Hall Café NIWeek Kickoff Happy Hour Start your NIWeek experience with an evening of drinks, music, and networking with NI sales engineers, National Instruments Alliance Partners, the NI R&D team, LabVIEW Champions, other NIWeek attendees, and exhibitors. Peer2Peer Roundtables Monday, August 2 5:30–7:30 p.m. exhibition Hall Network with your peers and NI developers and discuss best practices and challenges within your application, job position, or industry. Grab your lunch and meet at the designated tables in the dining area of the Exhibition Hall at noon. Roundtable topics vary by day.

Table 1 Noon–1:00 p.m. Data Management Luncheon

NI Community Block Diagram Party Tuesday, August 3 Tables 2 and 3 Noon–1:00 p.m. NI LabWindows™/CVI Developers Enjoy food, drinks, music, and good company at one of the hottest parties in downtown Tables 4 and 5 Noon–1:00 p.m. NI TestStand Developers Austin! Share best practices and ideas with fellow engineers and scientists from around the world. Also meet with industry leaders in design, control, and test to discuss the

latest innovations in technology. Table 1 Noon–1:00 p.m. Automotive Networks and NI-XNET Overview Tuesday, August 3 5:00–7:30 p.m. exhibition Hall Tables 2 and 3 Noon–1:00 p.m. LabVIEW for Medical Device Test and Design Wednesday, August 4 Tables 4 and 5 Noon–1:00 p.m. LabVIEW Leaders Lunch

Table 6 Noon–1:00 p.m. Acoustic Engineering and Analysis

Annual NIWeek Conference Party

Put engineering and learning about the latest technological advancements aside and Table 1 Noon–1:00 p.m. Vibration Analysis and Condition Monitoring Best Practices unwind Austin-style at this popular conference event. Enjoy Texas cuisine, cold drinks, Thursday, August 5 Tables 2 and 3 Noon–1:00 p.m. LabVIEW Design Pattern Best Practices and Challenges and a memorable evening with thousands of new friends. Dance the night away to the musical stylings of one of Austin’s coolest cover bands or simply kick back and listen to the hits you know and love.

Transportation provided by Canon Communications.

Wednesday, August 4 7:00–10:30 p.m. the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum (Museum tours not available.)

8 9 The mark LabWindows is used under a license from Microsoft Corporation. A National Instruments Alliance Partner is a business entity independent from National Instruments and has no agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship with National Instruments. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. A new era, a new New tracks. New courses. New focus. ESC Entering into it’s 21st year in Boston, ESC brings together systems architects, design engineers, suppliers, analysts, and media from across the globe. With cutting edge product demonstrations, visionary keynotes, and hundreds of essential training classes, ESC is the ideal conference for the embedded design community to learn, collaborate, and recognize excellence.

ESC Boston 2010 Tracks Include: • Aerospace and Military • Designing with Open Source Software, including Linux and Android • Developing for Windows Embedded • Graphics, Display and Lighting • Industrial, Automation, and Robotics • Medical • Multicore and Virtualization • Multimedia and Signal Processing • Networking, Connectivity, and Embedded Internet • Programmable Logic • Project Management • Real Time System Development • Safety and Security • Software Debugging Techniques • Systems Integration and Test

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12 special events

In addition to a variety of technical sessions, NIWeek gives you multiple opportunities to meet industry experts and academic leaders, learn about engineers in the NI Community, and enhance your product knowledge and expertise throughout the conference during the following special events:

BIG PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM NEW Join engineers and scientists from major labs around the world in sharing success stories and new technologies for control, measurement, and diagnostics.

ACADEMIC FORUM Experience NIWeek with fellow educators and students to learn more about what’s new in NI hardware and software for academia.

BUSINESS FORUM NEW Learn and discuss industry best practices to better manage automated testing and how to make a larger impact in your organization.

COMMUNITY EXCHANGE NEW Get connected with innovative thought leaders and learn about cutting-edge technologies driven by the NI Community.

GRAPHICAL SYSTEM DESIGN ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Recognize the most innovative user applications based on National Instruments software and hardware.

INDUSTRY EXPERTS PANEL Participate in an interactive discussion on the top technical hurdles and most promising solutions to move world energy production to clean, sustainable technologies.

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION Gain in-depth product knowledge, learn best practices for developing applications, and validate your skills.

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Held in conjunction with NIWeek, the Big Physics Symposium brings together scientists and researchers from Using the LabVIEW FPGA Module Using the NI Hardware Platform on a Linux OS major labs around the world and specialized vendors to share success stories, challenges, and new technologies. in Accelerator Instrumentation The need for diagnostic and control instrumentation to run on Join other engineers and scientists in networking and learning best practices and instrumentation strategies The Beam Instrumentation Group at the Spallation Neutron Source Linux has become the norm for physics experiments. Learn about measures loss, charge, and position of the particle beam that a novel approach to run COTS hardware on different Linux that can be applied in control, measurement, and diagnostics. produces the neutrons. Learn about the development experience distributions and the results of running a data acquisition system.

and how to maintain a beam accounting system that uses FPGAs Dr. Al Vrancic, Chief Architect, National Instruments TECHNICAL SESSIONS programmed directly with Xilinx tools, LabVIEW FPGA, and Monday, August 2 2:30–3:00 p.m. room 8A/B/C CompactRIO hardware. Thomson Scattering Diagnostics on COMPASS Tokamak Dr. Willem Blokland, Engineer, Oak Ridge National Lab New Tools and Technologies for Control, Thomson scattering diagnostics measure profiles of electron Monday, August 2 11:00–11:30 a.m. room 8A/B/C Measurement, and Diagnostics Applications temperature and density inside the tokamak during the plasma Learn about the new programmatic interface to automatically turn shot. Explore how ELCOM built a 120-channel digitizer system Requirements and Challenges of a Common NI hardware into an EPICS Channel Access Server. Also discuss for Thomson scattering diagnostics with complete timing and Interfacing and Control Strategy the latest NI FlexRIO adapter modules that can help you quickly synchronization and minimum skew and jitter. Diverse and complex operation scenarios require an array of implement FPGA algorithms for time-of-flight measurements and Dr. Daniel Kaminsky, Division Director, ELCOM technologies ranging from huge unmanned transport vehicles to beam positioning instrumentation. Monday, August 2 9:00–9:30 a.m. room 8A/B/C sophisticated 2D and 3D vision and measurement devices. Gain an Thierry Debelle, Senior Systems Engineer, Keynotes overview of remote handling (RH) requirements and challenges. National Instruments

COTS Technology for Measurement, Detection of Fast Transients in Superconducting Ignazio Piacentini, CEO, ImagingLab Monday, August 2 3:30–4:00 p.m. room 8A/B/C Diagnostics, and Control Magnets Using the Entube Sensor Monday, August 2 1:30–2:00 p.m. room 8A/B/C Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems take advantage of As one of the main U.S. technological contributions at CERN, the Using the NI Platform for a High-Power innovations in the computer industry to meet measurement and Superconducting Magnet Program at Lawrence Berkeley New Technologies for Timing, Triggering, Ultrafast Laser control needs. Examine rapid application development through National Laboratory is working to develop high-performance and Synchronization Lasers are research-oriented tools that many nonspecialists need various models of computation, multicore, and field-programmable superconducting-focusing quadrupoles to upgrade the Large Most physics applications, from accelerators to tokomaks, involve to use in a simple and safe way. Learn how NI hardware and gate array (FPGA) systems for instrumentation and interoperability Hadron Collider (LHC). Learn how the data acquisition setup and many channels spread over long distances that require precise software platforms can interface with the components of a laser between software and hardware platforms. analysis were implemented and ways the arrangement could be timing and synchronization with minimum skew and jitter. Explore chain to drive main functions, monitor major settings, and store Dr. James Truchard, CEO, National Instruments used to prevent power transmission and detect motor faults. new timing and synchronization technology that uses Ethernet for them for later analysis. Monday, August 2 8:30–9:00 a.m. room 8A/B/C Dr. Juan Lizarazo, Senior Scientist Engineer Associate, deterministic data transfer and timing network and automatically Jean-Francois David, Engineer, Arcale Lawrence Berkeley National Labs compensates for transmission delays. Monday, August 2 4:00–4:30 p.m. room 8A/B/C Monday, August 2 9:30–10:00 a.m. room 8A/B/C Fusion-Enabled Fission Nuclear Energy: Adam Ullrich, Group Manager, National Instruments

Green, Plentiful, and Sustainable Monday, August 2 2:00–2:30 p.m. room 8A/B/C Successful implementation of fusion and fission can usher in an era Rapid Application Development Environment for of green and nuclear energy. Learn about the underlying technical Software Infrastructure at CERN ideas and details of the crucial innovations and how they make CERN developed a Rapid Application Development Environment the hybrid a near-term project when direct production of net fusion (RADE) based on LabVIEW to create applications with a tool that energy remains a distant dream. provides full integration into the CERN accelerator control Dr. Swadesh Mahajan, Senior Research Scientist, software infrastructure. Learn about RADE experiences during The University of Texas at Austin commissioning of the Large Hadron Collider.

Monday, August 2 1:00–1:30 p.m. room 8A/B/C Dr. Alessandro Raimondo, Industrial Controls Engineer, CERN

Monday, August 2 10:30–11:00 a.m. room 8A/B/C

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Participate in the NIWeek Academic Forum along with hundreds of fellow educators, researchers, and graduate Tour some of the cutting-edge labs at The University of Texas at Austin to see work in various application areas students to learn more about what’s new in National Instruments hardware and software for academia. Attend and how NI technology is used to further academic research. sessions delivered by your peers to understand how they use NI technology to advance and improve their classrooms, labs, and engineering educations.

Keynote Mechanical Engineering Dynamic Systems and Controls Lab The goal of this junior/senior-level undergraduate laboratory core course is to provide Technologies to Do Engineering practical hands-on experience in modeling, analysis, simulation, and control of engineering Join Ray Almgren and Dave Wilson as they demonstrate the latest tools that enable systems. Emphasis is given to developing and using experimental techniques in LabVIEW educators and students to do engineering. Also look at several programs from K–12 and for simulation, data analysis, and data acquisition. Watch a demonstration of a novel higher education that are improving the learning experience and inspiring the next vision-based control experiment using a webcam and USB data acquisition. generation of innovators through a hands-on design approach that gives them the tools to meet the world’s greatest challenges.

Ray Almgren, Vice President of Software, Education, and Training, and Electrical and Computer Engineering Dave Wilson, Director of Academic Marketing, National Instruments Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) The WNCG is an interdisciplinary center for research and education in wireless networking, Monday, August 2 11:30–1:00 p.m. Ballroom A communications, and related industry applications. The Wireless Communications lab course takes an experimental approach to wireless digital communication. Theory in the classroom is translated directly into practice with the help of the NI PXI RF platform and Schedule Location Monday, August 2 LabVIEW Modulation Toolkit. The course emphasizes physical layer concepts rather than UT Lab Tours The University of Texas at Austin 8:30–11:15 a.m. implementation considerations. Specific topics covered include bandwidth, sampling, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Ballrooms B and C complex baseband equivalent representation, upconversion, downconversion, narrowband Technical Sessions 1:00–5:45 p.m. signals, channel estimation, and software-defined radio principles. Lunch Keynote Ballroom A 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation and Senior Design Labs Visit the new Biomedical Engineering Building and see the new Undergraduate Teaching Lab and Senior Design Lab. Students use LabVIEW software, the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), and PXI modular instruments to learn the basics of instrumentation for recording and displaying electrophysiological signals including pressure, flow, temperature, ultrasonics, and bioelectric signals.A lso, students use the equipment to develop a biomedical system for a one-semester senior design project.

Tour participants should meet in the registration area for transportation.

Monday, August 2 8:30–11:15 a.m. the University of Texas at Austin

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CLAD Testing for Academic Forum Multidiscipline Teaching with Zen, PID Control, and the Art of Lock Picking: Teaching LabVIEW in the Technical School As an Academic Forum attendee, take the official test to become the NI ELVIS Ecosystem Individual USB Data Acquisition Devices in a Discover how one professor implemented a LabVIEW course at a Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer during the NIWeek Explore a range of third-party plug-in modules from leading Controls Laboratory a two-year technical college to offer future electronics technicians Academic Forum. companies such as Quanser, Emona, and Freescale for the Explore the development and implementation of a new mechanical the most widely used engineering software, LabVIEW.

Brad Armstrong, Product Manager, National Instruments NI ELVIS platform. Learn how educators are providing a dynamic engineering controls laboratory course built around the integration Tom Reid, Professor, Anoka Technical College learning environment with NI ELVIS and plug-in modules for of individual control experiments, LabVIEW, and student-owned Monday, August 2 9:00–11:00 a.m. Ballroom B Monday, August 2 5:00–5:45 p.m. Ballroom B understanding concepts including circuits, biomedical, green USB data acquisition devices. The focus of the course is to build energy, microprocessors, controls, and telecommunication. physical intuition of controls through a series of lab experiences with

NI Multisim and NI ELVIS Sandra Tso, Product Manager, National Instruments simple, hands-on thermal, optical, and mechanical experiments. Panel Discussion: The Future of Electronics Get hands-on training with the industry-leading circuits teaching Engineering Education Monday, August 2 2:15–3:00 p.m. Ballroom B Scott Banks, Professor, and platform using Multisim and NI ELVIS. Gregory Sawyer, Professor, University of Florida Join Dr. Adel Sedra, author of Microelectronic Circuits, and leading educators to discuss the future of electronics engineering Sandra Tso, Product Manager, National Instruments Monday, August 2 3:00–3:45 p.m. Ballroom C Student Design Showcase Winners education. Discuss the current trends and challenges and learn Monday, August 2 9:00–10:00 a.m. Ballroom C Learn about the student category finalists of the Graphical System how to improve the learning experience to inspire the next Design Achievement Awards. Discover how student teams Hands-On: Design in the Freshman to Senior generation of innovators.

Incorporating LabVIEW into the First-Year incorporated LabVIEW and graphical system design to tackle Engineering Curriculum Dr. Adel Sedra, Professor, University of Waterloo Student Experience socially relevant engineering challenges. Discover how enabling engineering students to engage in the Dr. William Kaiser, Professor, University of California, First-year engineering students at Purdue University take an Mark Walters, Product Manager, National Instruments hands-on design experience in lecture, laboratory, and capstone Los Angeles introductory problem-solving course that uses computers. The design courses builds motivation and experience. Also gain insight Monday, August 2 2:15–3:00 p.m. Ballroom C Dr. Tony Ambler, Chairman of the Department of Electrical into fundamental principles to accelerate learning. course has traditionally been taught using The MathWorks, Inc. Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin ® MATLAB software, but an experimental section used LabVIEW Dr. William Kaiser, Professor, Dr. James McClellan, Professor, Georgia Tech to introduce design and computing concepts. Explore quantitative Digital Circuits Laboratory Projects with University of California, Los Angeles and qualitative results of the pilot course. LabVIEW FPGA Dr. Delores Etter, Professor, Southern Methodist University Monday, August 2 4:15–5:00 p.m. Ballroom B Gregory Bucks, Graduate Assistant, and LabVIEW FPGA offers a completely new approach to the design, Monday, August 2 5:00–5:45 p.m. Ballroom C William Oakes, Associate Professor of Engineering Education simulation, and implementation of digital circuits and systems on and Director of EPICS, Purdue University an FPGA development board. Learn how to apply LabVIEW FPGA Bridge Structural Health Monitoring: Learning

Monday, August 2 1:00–1:45 p.m. Ballroom B in all aspects of an introductory digital circuits course and Experiences with PASCO and NI CompactDAQ laboratory including combinational and sequential logic, state Monitoring the health of aging bridges is one of the most important machines, and controller data path systems. topics in infrastructure engineering. Learn about a new teaching Undergraduate Controls Course with LabVIEW Ed Doering, Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology tool that involves small-scale bridge models and sensors and NI Single-Board RIO developed by PASCO, NI CompactDAQ, and LabVIEW. Students Monday, August 2 3:00–3:45 p.m. Ballroom B Discuss the use of LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO in an can access the experiment and data over the Web using LabVIEW undergraduate controls course and learn how the LabVIEW remote panels. Control Design and Simulation and LabVIEW MathScript RT Chaojun Huang, Graduate Student, modules were used extensively for homework, lab exercises, Srivishnu Vemuru, Graduate Student, and and in-class demonstrations. Satish Nagarajaiah, Professor of Civil and Mechanical George Anwar, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Engineering, Rice University

Monday, August 2 1:00–1:45 p.m. Ballroom C Monday, August 2 4:15–5:00 p.m. Ballroom C

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From an iPhone-controlled car to a first look at the community-driven innovations in LabVIEW, the The Blogosphere’s Best Even a Caveman Can Do It – Boost Your Car’s NIWeek Community Exchange shares new technologies and connects you to innovative thought leaders. The blogosphere is full of forward-thinking and innovative engineers. Horsepower with Hardware Based on LabVIEW Network with colleagues and members of the NI Community during these interactive sessions. Hear from the top NI bloggers on topics including LabVIEW Watch a high school student demonstrate how he ported the Robotics, large application development, multicore programming, LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers to custom virtualization, and blogging best practices. hardware and used Multisim to create a turbo boost value control

Emilie Kopp, Robotics Business Developer, circuit. Learn how to create an analog circuit that increases boost LabVIEW Features from the Idea Exchange Darren Nattinger, Senior Software Engineer, pressure of a stock turbo by adjusting the PWM signal. Explore the 13 new features suggested by the community and Christina Rogers, Senior Software Engineer, and Greg Crouch, Sales Manager, National Instruments implemented by R&D. Also learn how to get your own ideas Elijah Kerry, Product Manager, National Instruments Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 11A featured in the next version of LabVIEW. Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 11A Todd Sierer, Product Manager, National Instruments Long-Term Investment in Test: Building Common Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 11A LabVIEW Add-On of the Year: Product Gallery Core Test Platforms Following the presentation of the LabVIEW Add-On of the Year As we build our way back from challenging economic times, many There’s an App for That Award during the NI Community Block Diagram Party on Tuesday companies are investing in long-term test platforms. Gain an Discover how the engineers of Waterloo Labs built an iPhone night, attendees have the opportunity to learn more from the introduction to platform-based architectures, and learn about NI application to remotely control an Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight Royale. finalists and winners during Community Exchange. Gain an software and hardware used by industry leaders, how to implement Top Five Reasons Engineers Should Give a Tweet Explore how they created an automobile control system connected overview of the Compatible with LabVIEW program guidelines and these tools using NI software development environments, and and Use Social Media by a wireless network to control the car from an iPhone, Power view in-depth product demonstrations from the finalists and winner. hardware technologies including distributed/shared resources. Engineers and scientists around the world are using social networks Wheels, a computer, and other devices as well as other DIY Robert Des Rosier, Engineer, National Instruments Christopher Relf, Principal Architect, V I Engineering and online communities to connect and learn with other engineers. Waterloo Labs applications. Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 11A Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 11A Learn how to be successful online and why engineers should care Will Schoettler, Engineer, Waterloo Labs about using social networks. Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 11A Deirdre Walsh, Community Manager, National Instruments We Are the Champions

Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 11A Do you have dreams of becoming a LabVIEW champion? Learn LabVIEW on TV: Confirmed,P lausible, or Busted? from the top LabVIEW community members who are recognized Take a break and watch your favorite programming language on the for their leadership, expertise, and contributions to the technical Popcorn Tweets: LabVIEW Goes Viral big screen. Listen to the engineers behind the systems explain community. NI LabVIEW Champions are credible technology Learn how the world’s firstT witter-powered popcorn machine, how NI products were used in TV shows, and view LabVIEW clips experts from around the world who inspire others to learn and programmed in LabVIEW, became a viral video. Listen to JKI from Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior and Crash Test, and Discovery grow with LabVIEW. engineer Justin Goeres as he explains how he used LabVIEW Channel’s Mythbusters. Ed Dickens, Systems Engineer, DISTek Integration and LabVIEW add-ons to create a machine that monitors Twitter David Harding, Engineer, and James Kring, CEO, JKI for #popcorn Tweets, dispenses popcorn kernels, and makes Nathan Yang, Product Manager, National Instruments real popcorn. Christopher Relf, Principal Architect, V I Engineering Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 11A Justin Goeres, Engineer, JKI Nancy Hollenback, LabVIEW Instructor and Architect, The G Team Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 11A Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 11A

24 25 The Graphical System Design Achievement Awards recognize the most innovative user applications based on MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Designing a Robotic Device to Study Flying Insects Using National Instruments software and hardware. This year more than 150 authors from around the world submitted Measuring Fetal Heart Rates Accurately and Safely Using LabVIEW and CompactRIO by Chauncey Graetzel, Steven Fry, and Bradley Nelson, ETH Zurich, technical papers that depict their greatest achievements in graphical system design. LabVIEW and NI Hardware by Gan Kok Beng, Edmond Zahedi, and Mohd. Alauddin Mohd. Ali, Daniel Schwyn and Holger Krapp, Imperial College, London, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia and Chris Rogers, Tufts University, USA Visit the contest poster display, located outside Ballroom D, to learn about the finalist’s applications for each of the seven application categories: Academic Research and Education, Machine Control and Monitoring, Using LabVIEW Software to Develop the Canary System for TEST AND MEASUREMENT Early Detection and Monitoring of Tooth Decay Medical Device Design and Development, Prototype and Validation Test, Robotics, Test and Measurement, and Reducing Test Time and Increasing Quality in Final Control by Dr. Koneswaran Sivagurunathan, Wireless Monitoring. System Tests for Wind Turbines Quantum Dental Technologies, Canada by Morten Pedersen and Michael Bove, Winners of each category as well as the recipients of four featured awards – Green Engineering, Humanitarian, CIM Industrial Systems A/S, Denmark PROTOTYPE AND VALIDATION TEST Editor’s Choice, and the 2010 Application of the Year – will be announced at the invitation-only awards dinner on CompactRIO and LabVIEW Deliver a The ISIS Proton Synchrotron – Beam Data Acquisition and Tuesday, August 3. State-of-the-Art Control System Analysis Using PXI and LabVIEW by Shahzad Sarwar, Innosiv Engineering, Canada by Bryan Jones and Sarah Whitehead, ISIS Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK Developing an Inertial Pipeline Inspection ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION MACHINE CONTROL AND MONITORING Gauge with LabVIEW and CompactRIO Controlling Echogen Power Systems Waste Heat Engine WIRELESS MONITORING Developing an Integrated Focused Magneto-Optical Kerr by Ricardo Artigas Langer, Gustavo Emmendoerfer, with NI Software and Hardware Developing a Telemetry System for a Solar Car Effect (MOKE) Magnetometer Using NI PXI and LabVIEW and Walter Antônio Kapp, EngeMOVI, by Darryn R. La Zar, Wineman Technology, USA by Neo Wei Ren, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore by S. Jain, A.O. Adeyeye, and Y. Ren, and Winderson Eugênio dos Santos, UTFPR, Brazil National University of Singapore, Singapore Performing Aircraft Jet Plume Noise Measurements Monitoring Atmospheric Ozone on the Global Hawk Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicle with CompactRIO Using CompactRIO for Control and Measurement Using LabVIEW Software and PXI Hardware ROBOTICS in the Low-Voltage Marine Substation at the by Michael James, Blue Ridge Research and Consulting, and Building a Semiautonomous Vehicle Driven by the Visually by Laurel A. Watts and Troy Thornberry, Lysekil Wave Power Research Site Dr. Kent Gee, Brigham Young University, USA Impaired with LabVIEW and CompactRIO Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, and Ru-Shan Gao, by O. Svensson, Uppsala University, Sweden by Kimberly Wenger, Greg Jannaman, and Dr. Dennis Hong, Virginia Tech, USA Steven J. Cicora, and David W. Fahey, NOAA, USA

26 27 Industry Experts Panel TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

Maximize your NIWeek conference experience by attending the Industry Experts Panel. Learn from leading Take advantage of training and certification exam offerings to supplement your NIWeek experience. Offered at the industry experts at this interactive panel discussion where you have the chance to ask direct questions regarding Austin Convention Center, training and certification exams help advance and validate your development skills. trends in clean energy technology. Visit the NI Services and Training Pavilion to register for a certification exam. Seating is limited, so register today.

Training and Continuing Education Clean Energy Technology – The Ultimate Deployment Challenge Gain in-depth product knowledge and learn best practices for developing applications by attending a two-day training course that begins The world’s appetite for energy is quickly growing, making it increasingly urgent to deploy two days prior to NIWeek. By taking each course, you can earn 1.4 CEUs to maintain a professional status such as Professional Engineer. cleaner alternatives for economic, environmental, and security reasons. How can green The following courses are offered as two-day modules from Sunday, August 1, to Monday, August 2:

engineers and scientists lead the way? What are the most important hurdles to overcome? n LabVIEW Core 2 n LabVIEW FPGA

How do clean energy technology breakthroughs make it from design to prototype to mass n LabVIEW Performance n Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning

deployment and adoption? What is the role of smart grid and energy storage technologies? n Managing Software Engineering in LabVIEW Listen as a panel of experts shares thoughts on this growing challenge and how engineers and scientists are at the forefront of innovative solutions. Certification Exams Allan Schurr, Vice President of Strategy, IBM Global Energy and Utilities Industry Validate your skills by taking certification exams for LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, and NI TestStand. During NIWeek, you can take the Robert Metcalfe, Inventor, Ethernet, and Founder, 3Com one-hour Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) exam for only $99 USD and all other exams for $199 USD. In addition, you can Don Cortez, Vice President of Distribution Support, CenterPoint Energy take any of the one-hour recertification exams for a special price of $99 USD, including the new Certified LabVIEW Architect Recertification exam (CLA-R). Certification exam prep courses are offered at no cost. Karl Rábago, Vice President for Distributed Energy Services, Austin Energy

Owen Golden, Vice President of Energy, National Instruments

Wednesday, August 4 3:30–5:45 p.m. Ballroom D Certification Exam Prep Courses Room Monday, August 2 Tuesday, August 3—Thursday, August 5

Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) 1 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA) 1 1:00–5:00 p.m.

Exam Schedule

1:00–2:00 p.m. 10:30–11:30 a.m., 1:00–2:00 p.m., 3:30–4:30 p.m. Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) 5C 3:30–4:30 p.m.

1:00–2:00 p.m. 10:30–11:30 a.m., 1:00–2:00 p.m., 3:30–4:30 p.m. Certified LabVIEW Architect Recertification (CLA-R) 5C 3:30–4:30 p.m.

1:00–2:00 p.m. 10:30–11:30 a.m., 1:00–2:00 p.m., 3:30–4:30 p.m. Certified LabVIEW Developer Recertification (CLD-R) 5C 3:30–4:30 p.m.

1:00–2:00 p.m. 10:30–11:30 a.m., 1:00–2:00 p.m., 3:30–4:30 p.m. CertifiedT estStand Architect (CTA) 5C 3:30–4:30 p.m.

1:00–2:00 p.m. 10:30–11:30 a.m., 1:00–2:00 p.m., 3:30–4:30 p.m. CertifiedT estStand Developer (CTD) 5C 3:30–4:30 p.m.

Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA) 5B 1:00–5:00 p.m.

Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) 5B 1:00–5:00 p.m.

Certified LabWindows/CVI Developer (CCVID) 5B 1:00–5:00 p.m.

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30 Technical SUMMITS ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES SUMMIT

The NIWeek technical summits give you the opportunity to focus your NIWeek experience in five targeted The Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles Summit unites the world’s top roboticists, researchers, design engineers, application areas. Attend the summit sessions to gain expertise, hear from industry leaders, and explore and domain experts working on the design, simulation, prototyping, and deployment of robots and autonomous real-world applications using NI products. systems. With in-depth sessions and live demos on the expo floor, learn how to apply the latest technology from real-time devices, FPGAs, and graphical programming to design robotics systems faster than your peers.

KEYNOTES Robot Evolution by Intelligent Design ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES SUMMIT Join Dr. Dennis Hong – recently named one of the “top 10 young geniuses shaking up science” by Popular Science – as he guides you through a whirlwind tour of some of The proliferation of robotics is happening now; by 2020, robots will be part of everyday life the most advanced and exciting robotics projects at Virginia Tech. From novel robotic from working in factories, construction, and maintenance to security, entertainment, and care. locomotion mechanisms in the STriDER robot, to the Blind Driver Challenge vehicle, to humanoids like DARwIn and CHARLI, Hong’s demonstrations and technical insight will inspire your own robotics projects.

Dr. Dennis Hong, Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanism Laboratory (RoMeLa) ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT NEW Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 17A Creating sustainable energy to meet worldwide demand is one of the greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century. The Future of Ground Robotic Systems Listen to Jim Overholt, chief roboticist of the U.S. Army, share success stories from the Department of Defense, including the computer-assisted robotics manipulator (CARMAN) and computer-assisted teleoperation (CATO) projects, and offer insight into current autonomous competitions and laboratory projects. Learn about deployed systems and MILITARY AND AEROSPACE SUMMIT how the U.S. Army plans to take advantage of the rapidly evolving IT market to embed As requirements for national defense and transportation become more complex, intelligence and autonomy into future programs. engineering applications need to evolve with market demands. Dr. Jim Overholt, Chief Roboticist, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) Joint Center for Robotics (JCR) Sponsors Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 17A

RF AND WIRELESS TEST SUMMIT TECHNICAL SESSIONS Increasing complexity in wireless devices requires test platforms to deliver fast, Hands-On: Introduction to LabVIEW for Embedded Design with flexible, and accurate measurements from prototype to manufacturing. the LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit Learn how to use LabVIEW graphical programming and the NI Single-Board RIO Robotics Partners embedded control system to program a mobile robot.

Aashish Mehta, Engineer, National Instruments

Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 18C R VISION SUMMIT Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18C From inspecting automotive parts to guiding industrial robots, machine vision has become an essential technology for ensuring quality and reducing production costs.

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Biomimetic Mobile Robot Design with Vision Tracking for Automated Sewing Teaching a Walking Robot to See RIO Robots Save Lives NI Single-Board RIO Examine studies in automated sewing in which fabric position Gain insight into the process of adding vision to a compact Vecna Technologies has pioneered the world of military rescue Discover how NI Single-Board RIO and LabVIEW were used for feedback is based on a thread tracking vision system prototyped controller based on CompactRIO for a six-legged walking robot robotics with the BEAR robot. Learn how CompactRIO and the prototyping and deployment of a robotic cheetah that will push with LabVIEW and NI vision tools. Also learn about an experimental using the MoviMED AF1501 analog frame grabber. See visual LabVIEW were used to create an extremely sophisticated prototype the envelope for high-speed mobile robots. project in flex tracking. feedback for an operator and implement navigation tasks via faster than with traditional tools.

Sangbae Kim, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute Wayne Book, Professor, Georgia Techr vision processing. Also discuss mechanical and control design Andrew Allen, Engineer, Vecna Technologies of Technology (MIT) for the robot. Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:00 p.m. room 17A Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:00 p.m. room 17A Tuesday, August 3 1:00–1:30 p.m. room 17A Markus Tarin, President, MoviMED

Wednesday, August 4 1:30–2:00 p.m. room 17A Dependable Control System for Field Robot Using Synthetic Neural Models to Augment Autonomous Ground Vehicles for Space Platforms Traditional Control Systems Applications Field robots working in tough outdoor environments require a First Responder Robots: The Emergence of For the last 15 years, researchers at The Neurosciences Institute Learn about the design of an autonomous rover based on LabVIEW dependable control system, and powerful hardware and easy Unmanned Systems for Firefighting, Law have developed progressively more capable synthetic neural models and CompactRIO for exploring the moon. The design includes software development are keys for successful development and Enforcement, and Disaster Response Applications (SNM), also known as brain-based devices (BBD), to augment navigation, path planning, and collision avoidance capability. deployment. Learn about the development of a military robot From assisting SWAT and EOD teams to providing overhead digital control systems in real-world environments. Discuss the Dr. Robert Bishop, Opus Dean of Engineering, platform and an autonomous electric golf cart using NI tools. surveillance for firefighters, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) value of these models in solving complex control problems. Marquette University Dr. Sung Chul Kang, Engineer, and unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) are finding their way to Jim Snook, Engineer, The Neurosciences Institute Tuesday, August 3 1:30–2:00 p.m. room 17A KIST Cognitive Robotics Center the front lines at home. Discuss the potential for unmanned Wednesday, August 4 4:00–4:30 p.m. room 17A Tuesday, August 3 4:00–4:30 p.m. room 17A systems to aid firefighters, police officers, and disaster response personnel in daily missions. Design and Control of Complex Mechanical Kyle Snyder, Director of Knowledge Resources, and Critical Robotics and Autonomous Technologies Systems LabVIEW for Every Robot Lindsay Voss, Engineer, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Panel Discussion Learn about embedded control of mechanically complex Explore how a solid LabVIEW architecture can scale from simple Systems International (AUVSI) Hear leading robotics industry and research experts share their marionettes and three key technical hurdles to automate the LEGO MINDSTORMS® NXT robots to custom reconfigurable I/O Wednesday, August 4 2:15–2:45 p.m. room 17A thoughts on the most critical up-and-coming technologies for production of complex motion sequences: real-time embedded (RIO)-based autonomous vehicles. ensuring success in the growing robotics market. Gain valuable motion control, coordination of high-degree-of-freedom systems, Dr. David Barrett, Director of SCOPE, Olin College insight into strategies from Intel, The Korea Institute of Science and abstraction-based motion specifications. Autonomous Robotic Mail Courier for Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 17A and Technology, Microsoft, National Instruments, and more. Magnus Egerstedt, Professor, Georgia Tech Residential Applications Dr. David Barrett, Director of SCOPE, Olin College Tuesday, August 3 2:15–2:45 p.m. room 17A Discover an autonomous “mail courier” robot controlled by Dr. Dennis Hong, Associate Professor, RoMeLa Rapid Manipulator Development with LabVIEW that transports mail to a user-specified location upon CompactRIO and LabVIEW reception at the mailbox. The robot negotiates adverse weather Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Professor, MIT Prototyping for Life Science Automation Using LabVIEW and the CompactRIO platform, Square One and surface conditions as well as path obstructions. Also, dead Dr. Robin Murphy, Director, Texas A&M Center for Robot- Learn how Rice University and the National Center for Systems Design has substantially expedited the product reckoning, RFID, and accelerometers provide localization and Assisted Search and Rescue Macromolecular Imaging at Baylor College of Medicine are development cycle. Discover how NI products allow the orientation data for stability and motion control of the robot. Moderated by collaborating on a prototype system with LabVIEW and NI hardware company to quickly shift between different projects and John Bird, Professor, Virginia Tech Dan Kara, President, Robotics Trends for automated grid preparation for electron cryomicroscopy to investigate new concepts. Wednesday, August 4 2:45–3:15 p.m. room 17A Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 17A improve image quality, repeatability, and throughput. Wesley Womack, Senior Technology Officer, Dr. Marcia O’Malley, Professor, Rice University Square One Systems Design

Tuesday, August 3 2:45–3:15 p.m. room 17A Wednesday, August 4 1:00–1:30 p.m. room 17A

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MINDSTORMS is a registered trademark of the LEGO Group used here with special permission. ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT

A new industrial revolution is transforming energy production to cleaner, more sustainable technologies. Join TECHNICAL SESSIONS leaders from traditional and renewable energy industries as they exchange lessons learned in the field and Testing Siemens Wind Turbine Control Systems Wind Turbine Prognostics and Health Management insights into the future of energy technology. Attend the Energy Technology Summit sessions to learn powerful Validation of embedded software is vital for high-reliability Health monitoring and predictive maintenance technology is techniques and best practices for designing, prototyping, and deploying clean energy systems. control systems. A new real-time control hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) essential for lowering wind turbine operating costs. Learn about test system for Siemens wind turbines has been developed health assessment analysis techniques for wind turbines including using LabVIEW and NI R Series. Learn about HIL test strategy, a multiregime approach to segmenting data. keynoteS architecture, implementation, and best practices. Dr. Jay Lee, Director of Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems, Technologies to Bring the Smart Grid to Life Vagn Riis-Vestergaard, Systems Architect, CIM Industrial Systems University of Cincinnati Listen to Ken Murphy from CenterPoint Energy as he shares insight into the technologies Peter August Simonsen, Engineer, Siemens Wind Power A/S Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:15 p.m. room 16B bringing the smart grid to life in Houston, Texas – the nation’s third largest city. Understand why CenterPoint is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into new technologies for Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 16B automated power generation, distribution, and advanced metering. Also learn how smart Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Technology: Directions and Challenges grid technology fits into the big picture and why it is critical for a clean energy future. Implementing Wide-Area Power Quality The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) leads the way in Ken Murphy, Director of Smart Grid Implementation, CenterPoint Energy Monitoring with LabVIEW developing clean energy technologies. Listen to Bill Kramer as he Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:00 a.m. room 16B Wide-area electrical power measurement and analysis is critical discusses instrumentation, test, control, and monitoring projects for optimizing real-time grid operations and improving reliability. at NREL. Get behind the scenes of smart grid power electronics Learn about cutting-edge synchronized phasor measurement unit and wind, solar, and energy storage developments. Learn how you Powering a Smarter Planet technology and key takeaways from 15 years of implementing can apply your software and engineering skills to develop new Join Allan Schurr – recently named one of the “top 100 movers and shakers of the smart distributed power quality analyzers based on LabVIEW. grid” by Greentech Media – as he introduces some of the critical innovations transforming products and systems in this technology area. Daniel Kaminsky, Engineer, ELCOM the energy grid to enable greater efficiency, reliability, and security. Imagine a smarter Bill Kramer, Senior Research Engineer, NREL Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 16B planet that is more instrumented and interconnected, in which advanced embedded Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:00 a.m. room 16B system technology allows mass adoption of clean energy. Gain insight that will inspire you to use your graphical system design skills and join the smart energy revolution. Smart Grid Component Testing and Analysis Electrical Substation Monitoring and Control Allan Schurr, Vice President of Strategy, IBM Global Energy and Utilities Industry Testing smart grid components is crucial to deploying safe and Utility companies are challenged to reduce energy losses, increase Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 16B reliable infrastructure. See how NI hardware and LabVIEW are reliability, and manage peak loads, particularly in subtransmission used at PG&E to test energy and smart grid systems including Sponsors and distribution networks. Acquiring baseline data from the substation harmonic analysis, load simulation on a 500 kW entire grid is an important first step. Learn how NexGen uses Enernet: Internet Lessons for Solving the Energy Crisis electrolytic battery, and arc flash energy measurement. Listen to Robert Metcalfe, a pioneer of the Internet, as he shares lessons from 64 years NI hardware and software to implement monitoring and control Daniel Kaufman, Engineer, PG&E of Internet history and explains how they may guide us in meeting world needs for cheap systems at electrical substations across the state of Rajasthan in and clean energy. While the laws of thermodynamics and government policy are important, Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:00 p.m. room 16B Northern India. it is better to view the energy challenge as a networking problem. Jaswinder Singh, Project Manager, NexGen Consultancy

Robert Metcalfe, Inventor, Ethernet, and Founder, 3Com Fuel Cell and Energy Storage Characterization Wednesday, August 4 11:00–11:30 a.m. room 16B

Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 16B Energy storage systems are key technologies for a clean energy future. Learn about the fast-growing market and understand the structure and function of batteries, fuel cells, and ultracapacitors. Discover how to control energy storage systems while analyzing their performance using multichannel potentiostat electronics.

Eugene Smotkin, Founder, NuVant Systems

Tuesday, August 3 4:00–4:30 p.m. room 16B

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The Military and Aerospace Summit unites industry and research experts from the fields of advanced research, Development of a Sonic Boom Measurement STORMS Biometric RADAR flight research, defense and commercial aerospace test, ground vehicles, RADAR, and unmanned vehicles. System at JAXA Learn about a unique biometric RADAR that can extract information Hear directly from industry experts and system developers about the latest technological advances, and learn Discover how the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) about gait (walking), postural sway (standing), and breathing. The developed a measurement system for sonic boom using NI PXI system was rapidly and cost-effectively developed using NI PXI about the tools engineers are using to design, develop, and implement systems in an evolving market. and LabVIEW and verified the system using measurements in a modular instruments and LabWindows/CVI in conjunction with a flight test with an actual supersonic aircraft conducted in Sweden. third-party DSP board and intermediate frequency (IF) receiver and

TECHNICAL SESSIONS Yusuke Naka, Researcher, JAXA transmit/receive modules.

Structural Test System for Space Vehicles Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 17B Gabriel Lissade, Engineer, Explore three new integrated test systems designed and installed for NASA’s Orion Space Robert J. Adams, DSP and Controls Technology Director, and program. These integrated systems include high channel count of strain, torque, and Vinh Adams, CEO, VAWD Applied Science and Technology Ground Control Systems for Launch Vehicles pressure readings; pressurization of the test article; and synchronization and presentation Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 17B Based on LabVIEW of audio, video, and test data from the test facility. SpaceX has used systems based on LabVIEW for launch vehicles Josh Rouse, Engineer, and and test sites since its founding in 2002. Discuss the ground NI Requirements Gateway – A Power User’s Session Russel Blake, Engineer, G Systems station for the Falcon family of launch vehicles, which controls all NI Requirements Gateway is used heavily in the defense/aerospace Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 17B interactions between the pad and launch vehicle, in-flight telemetry, industry. Learn how to use NI Requirements Gateway more and data acquisition. efficiently to manage your projects including how to customize NIRG to use your own SRS documents and create reports and Rugged Portable MILSPEC PXI/PXI Express Chassis Trip Harriss, Engineer, SpaceX coverage statements in your documentation and code. More capable PXI modules make field test and diagnostics of military systems possible. Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 17B Learn about Logic Instrument’s TetraRPC PXI, which is a self-contained PXI chassis with Mike Rakolta, Functional Lead, and integral display and a keyboard for NI integrators and developers who need to field Christopher Relf, Principal Architect, V I Engineering Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs) Using deployable solutions in harsh or rugged environments. Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 17B LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Donald McCook, Vice President, Logic Instrument USA Explore a user-defined, instrument-centric AH L using LabVIEW Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 17B OOP. Learn how to field an instrument reuse library that can Using NI Products to Develop Level C and D grow with changing needs and instrument trends and continue Full-Flight Simulators to protect against costly maintenance in the inevitable event of COTS technology can serve as an innovative method to create Developing a Large-Scale Microphone Array for Aircraft Jet Plume hardware obsolescence with object-oriented design patterns. lower-cost, adaptable level C and D full-flight simulators. See Sponsor Noise Source Characterization Joe Helms, Engineer, Harris Corporation example systems and learn about the hardware and software Examine the design of a 150-channel, 96 kHz measurement array and data acquisition technologies used to develop a complete system including system deployed for a full-scale test on an F-22 jet plume. Discover how Blue Ridge Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 17B rehosting existing software flight models, maintenance, and Research and Consulting developed the portable near-field acoustic holography system upgrade plans for the life of the simulator. to measure the magnitude, directivity, spectral content, and spatial distribution of the Creating a Multichannel, Phase-Coherent, noise emitted from a jet. Terry Keenan, CEO, Keenan Simulation Corporation RF Record and Playback SIGINT Platform Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 17B Michael James, Vice President, Blue Ridge Research and Consulting Cal-Bay Systems implemented a COTS-based multichannel, Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 17B phase-coherent, RF record and playback signals intelligence (SIGINT) platform to capture and play back large blocks of an RF spectrum in the field for offline analysis. Learn about the technologies used to record and analyze RF signals in real time across multiple antennas for several hours.

Steven Seiden, Managing Director, Cal-Bay Systems Inc.

Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 17B

38 39 RF AND WIRELESS TEST SUMMIT RF AND WIRELESS TEST SUMMIT

Learn about next-generation RF and wireless test technology and listen to top industry experts as they explain Make a Good RF Measurement Even Better Introduction to Cognitive Radio and wireless trends, emerging instrumentation technologies, and innovative test techniques at the RF and Wireless Modern RF instruments have impressive measurement capabilities, Interference Alignment Test Summit. Also gain a better understanding of a range of technologies including FPGAs, WiMAX, LTE, multiple but the accuracy of a measurement is only as good as the test Learn about a new cognitive radio and innovative spectrum sensing setup. Learn best practices for improving accuracy, uncertainty, and algorithm from Virginia Tech. Also gain an overview of interference input multiple output (MIMO), software-defined radio, and multiconstellation GNSS. repeatability of common RF measurements. alignment research, which involved producing a real-world prototype

Steve Tenney, Development Manager, National Instruments of this technology with NI products, at The University of Texas TECHNICAL SESSIONS at Austin. Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 19A Teaching Old RF Dogs a New Trick: Making the Transition Michael Steiner, Graduate Student, Virginia Tech to PXI RF Instruments Sriram Vishwanath, Professor, and NI Technology Enables High-Throughput RADAR While switching from traditional rack-and-stack instruments to PXI produces significant Dr. Prasanth Anthapadmanabhan, Professor, Component Testing benefits, any transition presents inherent challenges. Gain insight into the benefits and The University of Texas at Austin Autoliv Inc., a manufacturer of automotive safety equipment, challenges of adopting PXI in an RF power amplifier characterization lab. Discuss Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 19A approached Averna to create a tester for RF RADAR components measurement correlation, trade-offs of rack-and-stack instruments, and lessons learned. that enable vehicle blind spot detection and automated cruise Also examine the benefits of the transition, which resulted in a 90 percent reduction in control. Discover how Averna used NI TestStand and PXI to develop Under the Hood of an LTE MIMO-OFDM characterization time for Triquint Semiconductor. a system that merges parallel and batch testing for efficient Downlink Prototype Gary Shipley, Engineer, Triquint Semiconductor synchronization, eliminating unit under test (UUT) loading time. Gain insight into the requirements for prototyping an over-the-air Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 19A Matt Jecz, Test System Architect, Averna 3GPP LTE MIMO downlink and the relevant PHY characteristics of the LTE standard. Also find out how next-generation FPGA Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 19A tools enable a new approach to communications system design. Adding an FPGA Target to Your RF Instrument Can you imagine using an RF vector signal analyzer with an FPGA? Peer-to-peer streaming Ian Wong, Senior Engineer, National Instruments The Changing Face of GNSS makes it possible. Learn how to implement real-time fast Fourier transforms (FFTs), Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 19A and Satellite-Based Navigation on-the-fly demodulation, and a frequency domain trigger using PXIR F signal analyzers Discover how new GNSS signals, such as GLONASS, improve with NI FlexRIO. accuracy in today’s navigation receivers and how you can use Testing MIMO in 802.11n Ryan Verret, Product Manager, National Instruments RF record and playback techniques to capture multiconstellation 802.11n systems achieve higher data rates with MIMO. Learn about Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 19A signals and play them back to the receiver in the lab. beamforming, spatial streams, and special MIMO measurements Sponsors Steve Bateman, Vice President of Product Development, and required for 802.11n. Reducing Test Costs in a High-Mix Thomas Morley, Product Manager, Novatel Inc. Dan Lyons, Senior RF Systems Engineer, National Instruments Manufacturing Environment Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 19A Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 19A Learn how Digi International, a leading supplier of WLAN, 802.15.4, and custom ISM-band radios, reduced test cost by improving test throughput by 25 to 40 percent. Walk through Testing FM Transmitters Better, Faster, a series of test system architecture best practices. and Cheaper Using the NI PXI Platform Elias Faraklas, Principal Hardware Engineer, Digi International Learn why coherent sampling and power level is critical for PXI, and Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 19A why software solutions are better than hardware solutions. Also compare the time, cost, and performance on an FM transmitter UUT against Rohde & Schwarz and Audio Precision testing solutions.

Ross Kulak, Systems Engineer, and Min Xu, Software Engineer, Texas Instruments

Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 19A

40 41 VISION SUMMIT VISION SUMMIT

Attend one of the most comprehensive vision session lineups in North America at the NIWeek Vision Summit. Vision Applications for Roll-to-Roll Processes Vision at Mach 1 Participate in hands-on workshops and technical sessions presented by NI developers, industry experts, and Discover how 3M manufacturing uses high-performance vision Slow downtime with high-speed still photography. Join imaging academic professionals to learn how to get started with machine vision, and gain insight into the latest technologies, solutions on its continuously running, complex roll-to-roll systems. expert Robert Tait as he discusses amusing and practical applications Learn how to meet challenges with multicamera architectures and that use stroboscopy to capture clear images at extremely high best practices, new products, and real-world solutions. memory management using object-oriented design and highly speeds. See examples involving bullets and water droplets, and parallel application code. discover how you can use these techniques for industrial monitoring

KEYNOTEs John Ramthun, Senior Design Engineer, 3M to observe the centripetal acceleration of a spinning steam turbine.

There’s No Accounting in Machine Vision Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 19B Robert Tait, Optical Engineer, GE Global Research Center Join imaging expert Nigel Holmes as he reveals how Federal-Mogul uses machine vision Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 19B to reduce scrap and lower the cost of end-of-line inspection. Explore how visual inspection Techniques for Vision-Based Robot Guidance can be justified financially from an equipment and operations standpoint.A lso examine An NI Smart Camera mounted on a custom end affecter controls A Peek Inside New NI Vision Algorithms featured case studies to gain valuable information to help convince your organization to a six-axis industrial robot for the U.S. Air Force Automated Aircraft Learn about the new algorithms in the NI Vision Development expand its use of machine vision. Ground Refueling program. Review the lessons learned and the Module. Discover how you can use new metrology and Nigel Holmes, Vision Systems Development Manager, Federal-Mogul advances in developing vision-based guidance applications with a segmentation tools for quality and process control applications in Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 19B nonfixed camera using LabVIEW. the food and pharmaceutical industries and for detecting cosmetic

Cory Dixon, Robotics Engineer, Stratom Inc. defects in consumer products.

Similarity Measurements for Space Time and 3D Visual Quality Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 19B Dinesh Nair, Principal Architect, National Instruments Assessment and Inspection Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 19B Learn how computer algorithms can see images from a human’s perspective and how Three New Camera Technologies recent advances impact automated inspection, whereby perceptually relevant quality Examine cutting-edge image sensor technologies including Using NI Vision for Offline In-Mill Testing indices are used to discover flaws in 2D images, video, and 3D stereoscopic range images contact image sensor technology for inspection of large surfaces; Kimberly-Clark uses offline vision systems to inspect nonwoven of manufactured objects. near-infrared sensors as they apply to food, photovoltaic, and fabrics and tissue for process monitoring and product release. Dr. Al Bovik, Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering, industrial inspection; and new scientific MOSC breakthroughs that Discover how the company used NI vision to measure features that The University of Texas at Austin achieve high performance with extremely low noise. affect consumer perception and product performance. Learn how Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 19B Lou Fetch, Project Manager, Performance Automation calibration, equipment design, and user interfaces lead to successful adoption of these applications in production environments. Sponsors Don Pancza, Account Manager, Goodrich/Sensors Unlimited Steve Rocke, Senior Research Scientist, Kimberly-Clark TECHNICAL SESSIONS Butch Moomaw, Product Manager, Hamamatsu Corporation Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 19B Hands-On: NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 19B Explore the features of NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) by using an NI Smart Camera to acquire and process images. When to Use FPGAs in Imaging Vision Builder AI and LabVIEW Evan Dozier, Engineer, National Instruments Gain practical knowledge on using FPGAs for imaging applications Build vision applications with an easy-to-use menu-driven with specific examples and demonstrations from experiencedN I Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18A environment and learn how to integrate them directly with engineers. Explore the PXI NI FlexRIO platform and LabVIEW FPGA, Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18A LabVIEW. Explore how the LabVIEW integration methods and find out when it is appropriate to use this parallel processing Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 18A compare as the product developers reveal new features in Vision architecture versus other high-performance systems. Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18A Builder AI. Brent Runnels, Senior Systems Engineer, National Instruments Brad Buchanan, Staff Software Engineer, and Kyle Voosen, Group Manager, National Instruments Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 19B

Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 19B

42 43 ADVANCED technical sessions Hands-On technical sessions

The advanced technical sessions discuss some of the most sophisticated applications of evolving technology in NIWeek hands-on technical sessions give attendees the chance to interact directly with the latest technologies and industry and academia. Targeted at those with proficiency in their respective topics, these sessions feature the experts who developed them. In these popular forums, you have the opportunity to learn how to use these tools knowledge-sharing from leading experts in their fields. Advanced technical sessions include the following: and how to work with them more efficiently. Attend the following technical sessions to get hands-on experience:

51 Beyond 40 MHz – Designing for High Throughput in LabVIEW FPGA 51 CompactRIO and LabVIEW FPGA Intermediate

54 an Insider’s View of How NI SoftMotion Uses LabVIEW to Create Open Control Architectures 51 Deploying and Replicating Your Embedded System

55 LabVIEW WSN Under the Hood 52 reusing FPGA IP in Embedded Systems

57 Best Practices for Memory Management and LabVIEW Code Optimization 53 Using Web Services with Your Embedded System to Publish Data Remotely

57 Case Studies in LabVIEW Parallel Programming Performance 54 CompactRIO High-Speed Acquisition

58 Full Speed Ahead – Maximize the Performance of NI TestStand 55 Develop Powerful Motion Control Applications with CompactRIO

59 LabVIEW Classes – The State of the Art 55 Introduction to CompactRIO and LabVIEW Real-Time

59 LabVIEW Compiler Under the Hood – Understanding the Optimizations in 2010 56 Wireless Sensor Networks

59 LabVIEW Graphical Scripting 58 Data Management and Reporting

62 DAQ Advanced: Real Developers Use Property Nodes 58 How to Build a LabVIEW Add-On

63 Precision Linear Measurements of RF Components 59 Introducing LabVIEW

63 Inside the SC Express Modules – Analog Designs and Technologies 61 software Engineering

64 nasa Hearing Aid Analysis and Audio Test Architectures with NI 62 acquire and Process Sound and Vibration Signals

66 switching Configurations for LargeT est Systems 62 Build an Automated Test System from Scratch

67 testing Next-Generation Multimedia Devices 63 Introduction to Data Acquisition

64 nI FlexRIO and LabVIEW FPGA

65 nI VeriStand

66 structural Test

44 45 sound and vibration sessions structural test and monitoring sessions

Attend the following sound and vibration sessions to view demos of the latest NI hardware and software technologies The importance of structural test and monitoring continues to grow as structures become older, bigger, and more for noise, vibration, and harshness; condition monitoring; and audio test. Also take the opportunity to experiment with complex. Engineers, scientists, researchers, and professors interested in structural measurements should attend some of these new tools at the hands-on sessions. the following sessions:

38 Developing a Large-Scale Microphone Array for Aircraft Jet Plume Noise Source Characterization 38 structural Test System for Space Vehicles

39 Development of a Sonic Boom Measurement System at JAXA 56 Using CompactRIO and LabVIEW for Online Signal Processing and Data Recording

54 Hands-On: CompactRIO High-Speed Acquisition 63 Inside the SC Express Modules: Analog Designs and Technologies

55 Practical Application of a Reference Architecture for Local Machine Control 64 top Considerations for Optical Sensing

55 Understand High-Speed Data Acquisition with CompactRIO 64 Introduction to Optical Sensing

56 Using CompactRIO and LabVIEW for Online Signal Processing and Data Recording 64 Introducing SC Express – High-Performance Sensor Measurements

56 Wireless Condition Monitoring of Rotating Equipment in Research Reactors 65 Perform Any Test on Any Structure

62 Distributed Monitoring with USB DAQ and Wi-Fi 65 real-Time Structural Health Monitoring: The New Paradigm in Infrastructure Management

64 nasa Hearing Aid Analysis and Audio Test Architectures with NI 66 strain Gage Measurement Techniques

65 nondestructive Resonance Inspection 66 Hands-On: Structural Test

66 Hands-On: Structural Test 66 synchronizing Scalable Sensor Measurement Systems

67 testing Audio Device Quality: Why Buy Headphones That Cost $300 USD? 67 Using Honeywell Pressure, Load, and Torque Sensors with Data Acquisition Systems

67 testing Next-Generation Multimedia Devices 67 Wireless Monitoring of Real-World Structures

Tour the Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory, one of the largest structural research facilities in the world. With a range of equipment and instrumentation, researchers conduct large-scale studies UT Structural of civil engineering structures. Researchers use NI hardware and software tools in their testing, Lab Tour and are working with NI to research and develop wireless monitoring solutions for highway bridges. NEW Tour participants should meet in the registration area for transportation.

Thursday, August 5 1:00–3:00 p.m. J.J. Pickle Research Campus

46 47 Can’t Miss LabVIEW Sessions > Intel Embedded Solutions: Home Energy Management

For more than 20 years, LabVIEW has revolutionized the development of test, measurement, and control applications. Attend the following technical sessions to learn about the new features in LabVIEW and tips and tricks for using LabVIEW in real-world applications:

DELIVER SEND CENTRALIZECENTRALIZE INFORINFORMM 51 CUT MANAGMANAGEE architect Real-Time Systems with Confidence: Best Practices for LabVIEW Real-Time Development RESPONDRESPOND NOTIFY CUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZE MONITORMONITOR RESPONDRESPOND CONTROL CUT DELIVER TRACKTRACK DISPLAYDISPLAYCUTCUT SHIFT INFORMINFORM 51 Beyond 40 MHz – Designing for High Throughput in LabVIEW FPGA PERPERSONALIZESONALIZE COMPARECOMPARE RECEIVERECEIVE NOTIFYNOTIFY SAVSAVEE CUT TRACK INFORM SAVESAVE PERSOPERSONALIZENALIZE CENTRALIZECENTRALIZE RESPOND CUT CCENTRALIZEENTRALIZE SAVESAVE 52 RRESPONDESPOND CUT SHIFT CUT Introduction to LabVIEW FPGA TRACK CONNECTCONNECT REDUCEREDUCE CCUSTOMIZEUSTOMIZE SHIFTS TRACKTRA CONNECT REDUCEEDUCE DELIVER CONNECT COMPARECOMPARE CONNECTCONNECT SHIFT SAVEVE TURNTURN OFF SAVESAVE CONCONNECT TRACK 59 MONITORMONITOR DELIVERDELIVER TRACKTRACK SAVE LabVIEW Classes – The State of the Art INFORMM RECEIVE CONNECT RESPONDRESPOND CONTROL RECEIVE INFORM DISPLAYAY RESPONDRESPOND INFORMINF RESPOND CUT TRACK CENTRALIZE SEND DELIVER RECEIVE MANAGE CENTRALIZECENTRALIZE TRACK MANAGE CUT CUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZE CCUTUT DDISPLAYISPLAY COMPARE NOTIFY CUSTOMIZE CUSTOMIZE 59 SEND COMPARERE CUT LabVIEW Compiler Under the Hood – Understanding the Optimizations in 2010 SHIFT TRACK SAVE MONITOR CUTCUT RECEIVERECEIVE MONITOR SAVE RESPOND REDUCESHIFT NOTIFY MANAGE CUT CONNECTCT CUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZE RECEIVRECEIVEE RESPONDRESPOND TURN OFFO CUT TURN OFF TRACK TRACKTRACK CONTROLCONTROL DELIVERDELIVE SHIFT SEND CUSTOMIZE CENTRALIZECENTRALIZE NOTIFY INFORM MANAGE DISPLAYLAYSAVESAVE CUTCUT SEND CENTRALIZE INFORM 59 TURN OFF MANAGE DISPLAY REDUCE CUSTOMIZEC LabVIEW Graphical Scripting TURN OFF RESPOND CONTROL SEND DELIVER TRACKTRACK CUSTOMIZE REDUCEREDUC CENTRALIZE INFORM DISPLAY TURN OFF RESPOND CONTROL CUT DELIVER TRACK CENTRALIZE PERSONALIZE DISPLAYDISPLAY MONITOR MANAGEMANAGE DISPLAY COMPARE MANAGE COMPARE CENTRALIZECE SEND SAVE SEND SENDSEND RESPONDRESP TRACK SEND DELIVER TRACK SAVE RECEIVE CUT MANAGE REDUCE RECEIVE INFORM TRACKTRACK 60 MANAGENAGE CUTCUT DELIVER CONNECT INFORM LabVIEW UI Tips and Tricks TRACK SAVESAVE INFORM RECEIVE DELIVER INFORM CUT SENDSEND SENDSEND CUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZE COMPARECOM SEND SEND SHIFT NOTIFY TURN TURNTURN OFF SAVESAVE RESPONDRESPOND DELIVER CUT SAVE 61 SEND SAVE OFF NONOTIFYTIFY CUSTOMIZECUSTOMIZE CUT INFORM tips and Tricks to Speed LabVIEW Development NTROL TRACK SEND CUSTOMIZE CUT SAVE SEND SPOND CUT DELIVER TRACK RECEIVE DELIVER FORM CONNECT SHIFT TRACKTRACK TURN MONITORMONITOR CONTROL SHIFT SAVESAVE INFORM TURN NNECT SAVE RESPOND CONTROL SHIFT OFF RESPONDRESPOND PERSONALIZEPERSONALIZE TROL DELIVER CONNECT NOTIFYNOTIFY SHIFT OFF 61 CUSTOMIZE SAVE TRACK CENTRALIZECENTRALIZE SSAVEAVE INFORM NOTIFY TRACK What’s New in LabVIEW INFORM TRACK REDUCE SHIFT MONITOR SAVE PERSONALIZE CUSTOMIZE MANAGE INFORMINFORM CUT CENTRALIZE CUTCUT TRACK MANAGE SHIFT CUSTOMIZE RESPONRESPONDD MANAGEMANAGE DISPLAYDISPLAY REDUCE ALIZE SEND NOTIFYNOTIFY MANAGEMANAGE CUSTOMIZE INFORM CONNECT DE RESPOND INFORM COMPARECOMPARE CUT DELIVERDELIVER TRACK CONNECT CENTRALIZE SENSENDD RN OFF TRACK CENTRALIZECENTRALIZE CONNECT PERSONALIZE CUT DELIVER TRACK CONNECT CENTRALIZE SEND R REDUCE TRACK MANAGE SAVE COMPAREPARE PERSONALIZEPERSONALIZE SHIFT RECEIVRECEIVEE SAVESAVE INFOINFORMRM INFORM MONITORMONITOR SAVESAVE TURN OFFFF TRACKTRACK CONTROLCONTROL REDUCEREDUCE SAVE REDUCE DISPLAY PERSONALIZEALIZE MOMONITORNITOR COMPARECOMPARE MANAGE INFORM DISPLAY REDUCE DISPLAYDISPLAYCENTRALIZE CUT SHIFTSHIFT CONTROL DELIVERDELIVER CENTRALIZECENT NOTIFY CUTCU PERSONALIZE SAVE DISPLAY SEND MANAGE SEND CONNECT SAVE SAVE DISPLAY CONNECT NOTIFY CUSTOMIZE CUT SHIFT MONITOR COMPARE SHIFT SAVE TRACK CONTROL MONITOR SEND CUT MONITOR CUSTOMIZE MONITO SAVE INFORM CONNECT DISPLA SHIFT MONITOR SAVE PERSONALIZE TRACK DISPLAY SHIFT SAV SHIFT MONITOR SAVE PERSO SEND SHIFT COMPARE MAN DISP I

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and Pneumatic Cylinders, Muscle Wire Architect Real-Time Systems with Confidence: Custom Design 101 with CompactRIO Modules E mbedded n Bases, Frames, and Development Platforms Best Practices for LabVIEW Real-Time Development and NI Single-Board RIO Enabling Technologies and n Batteries and Power Solutions n Communication Solutions How can you program your LabVIEW Real-Time applications for Find out how to build and create custom NI C Series modules,

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51 technical Tracks technical Tracks Embedded Design Track Embedded Design Track

Implementing Mission-Critical Distributed Systems Machines That Work: Advanced Motion Control There’s an App for That Hands-On: Using Web Services with Your E mbedded k c Distributed systems for mission-critical applications require special Learn how to use LabVIEW programming to replace standard Learn how the engineers of Waterloo Labs built an iPhone Embedded System to Publish Data Remotely ra T design considerations. The NI Compact FieldPoint and CompactRIO control algorithms included with NI SoftMotion using your own application to remotely control an Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight Royale. Learn how to use Web services to build remote user interfaces D esign esign platforms running the LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW Datalogging custom-build controller to achieve enhanced performance. Discover how they created an automobile control system connected and publish data on the Web. These user interfaces can be D and Supervisory Control (DSC) modules offer convenient features; Javier Gutierrez, Product Manager, National Instruments by a wireless network to control the car from an iPhone using displayed on a variety of physical media, including smart phones, T however, some operations require custom-coding solutions. Find Power Wheels, a computer, and other devices. Also explore other tablets, netbooks, PCs, and embedded displays. ra

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E out which features are appropriate and when custom solutions DIY Waterloo Labs applications. Matt Spexarth, Product Manager, National Instruments are worth the investment. Will Schoettler, Engineer, Waterloo Labs Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 18B Precision Control Using LabVIEW Real-Time and Jeremy Marquis, Engineer, G Systems Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 16A LabVIEW FPGA Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 16A Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used for imaging, sensing, Using Xilinx IP and Coregen in LabVIEW FPGA and manipulating matter at very small scales in nanotechnology, The Right Development Process for As FPGA-based designs become more complex, the need for Introduction to LabVIEW FPGA biotechnology, and semiconductor research. Learn about precision LabVIEW FPGA Success higher-level building blocks, such as memory controllers or video Learn the basics, view a demo, and see applications using the control techniques for AFMs based on the LabVIEW Real-Time There are many wrong ways to approach LabVIEW FPGA design, decoding, is imperative. Discover what IP is available and how to LabVIEW FPGA Module. and LabVIEW FPGA modules. which can create undesirable results. Learn the right process for take advantage of Coregen within LabVIEW FPGA. Coregen is

Donovan Buck, Engineer, National Instruments Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Professor, MIT successful designs in LabVIEW FPGA. the Xilinx standard generation and delivery mechanism for Xilinx and third-party IP. Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 16A Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 11B Dan Eaton, Engineer, National Instruments Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 19A Keith Nesrsta, Field Applications Engineer, Xilinx Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 16A LabVIEW Embedded Tips and Tricks Hands-On: Reusing FPGA IP in Embedded Systems As one of the earliest adopters of the LabVIEW Embedded Module Learn how to build, find, and reuse FPGA IP on your next embedded Using LabVIEW and the mbed Microcontroller for for ARM Microcontrollers, Boston Engineering developed a unique system, and examine NI IPNet, Xilinx tools, and third-party websites Rapid Prototyping What’s New in LabVIEW FPGA portfolio of tips and tricks through a combination of LabVIEW for sources of reusable IP. Software simulations using LabVIEW are effective ways to quickly See the latest features in LabVIEW FPGA including compiling in

embedded projects and a close relationship with NI developers. Matt Spexarth, Product Manager, National Instruments prototype control systems that include hardware integration. the cloud, new IP, build specifications, and simulation. Gain insight into proper LabVIEW embedded programming and Learn how to combine an mbed microcontroller with LabVIEW Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18B Rick Kuhlman, Product Manager, National Instruments debugging techniques. tools to provide a simple and low-cost method to make your Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 16A Jason Burns, Engineer, Boston Engineering LabVIEW programs interact with the real world. Also explore the Simple TCP/IP Messaging Beyond LabVIEW LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers for Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 16A Discover how the power of simple TCP/IP messaging (STM) in a developing prototypes running on Cortex-M3 microcontrollers. distributed embedded system with a C++-based host application Jamie Brettle, Product Manager, National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA for Defense and Space Applications was used to develop a medical device. The host application Simon Ford, Technical Lead, ARM FPGAs save months of development time compared to ASIC consists of a LabVIEW real-time server and a C++ remote client. Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 16A solutions, but their sensitivity to radiation constrains their space Julien Parouty, Consultant, Genexis LLC usage to a complex, triple-redundant form. Explore the use of Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 16A LabVIEW FPGA for programming a new Single-Event-Upset Immune Reconfigurable FPGA from Xilinx called Virtex-5QV, making LabVIEW FPGA more applicable in satellite and space applications.

M. Brett McMickell, Engineer, Honeywell Engineering The Build Your Own Embedded System (BYOES) track is a series of hands-on sessions that focuses and Technology Build Your Own on prototyping an embedded system based on NI Single-Board RIO. BYOES track registrants will Embedded System Delfin Rodillas, Senior Manager of Aerospace and HPC take home a fully configured and programmedN I Single-Board RIO embedded system at the end of Architectures and Applications, Xilinx TRACK the conference. Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 16A

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Advanced: An Insider’s View of How Choosing RIO Expansion for Connect LabVIEW to Any PLC Practical Application of a Reference Architecture NI SoftMotion Uses LabVIEW to Create High-Channel-Count Systems Do you need to add custom functionality to your programmable for Local Machine Control Open Control Architectures Learn about three expansion options for control and measurement logic controller system? NI offers connectivity to industrial Explore the use of an enhanced NI reference architecture for Examine the underlying architecture of the LabVIEW systems based on CompactRIO to fit your requirements whether protocols such as EtherNet/IP, PROFIBUS, and FOUNDATION local machine control to implement a process control system NI SoftMotion Module and how NI R&D uses the distributed they are open connectivity, deterministic communication, or Fieldbus. View demos and new industrial communications products. that performs a flush-and-fill process of a liquid-cooled computer.

nature of LabVIEW to create an open control architecture that is high-speed streaming waveform data. Irene Bearly, Product Manager, and The system provides a basis for analyzing the advantages and easy to use and offers powerful customization. Experience the Irene Bearly, Product Manager, and Dirk Wieprecht, Engineer, National Instruments disadvantages of using the reference architecture. key elements of the NI SoftMotion architecture including the

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Kiran Sreekantham, Engineer, and Hands-On: Develop Powerful Motion Control M easurements and Control Dustin Wells, Group Manager, National Instruments Choosing the Right Technology for Your Applications with CompactRIO Wireless Application Learn about motion application development for CompactRIO The Secret of Tuning – Advanced Control Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 13A/B Wireless measurement devices can provide the same quality and from simple single-axis to complex-coordinated trajectories and Strategies for Servo Systems accuracy as traditional wired measurement systems but with gain firsthand experience with the LabVIEW NI SoftMotion Module. Servo systems provide fast command response, outstanding

Best Practices for Delivering Distributed Data to increased flexibility and lower costs.E xamine different wireless Eric Reid, Engineer, National Instruments disturbance rejection, and highly repeatable motion. Discuss easurements and Control and Control easurements Remote Clients technologies, including Wi-Fi and IEEE 802.15.4, and learn how to advanced servo algorithms such as observers, high-order filters, M Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 18B As technology evolves, devices, data, and clients are growing choose between range, throughput, power, and other options and multiple feed-forward paths. Also learn how to configure and

Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 18B TRA more distributed. Systems can consist of tens to thousands of based on your application requirements. tune your system including the roles of automatic and manual C K ndustrial ndustrial I measurement systems that need to be accessed anytime and Nicholas Butler, Product Manager, and tuning methods. from anywhere. Learn about existing and future technology for Charlie Stiernberg, Product Manager, National Instruments Hands-On: Introduction to CompactRIO and Doug Frater, OEM Account Manager, and acquiring, aggregating, accessing, and displaying data from LabVIEW Real-Time Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 11B George Ellis, Director of Technology Planning, Kollmorgen distributed devices to remote clients. Learn how to quickly build and deploy embedded control and data Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 17A Nicholas Butler, Product Manager, and acquisition applications using graphical programming with Caroline Tipton, Product Manager, National Instruments Hands-On: CompactRIO High-Speed Acquisition CompactRIO and LabVIEW Real-Time. Also explore new LabVIEW Work with an NI systems engineer to develop a CompactRIO Real-Time features that increase flexibility and integration with the Understand High-Speed Data Acquisition Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 12B data-logger application. Learn best practices for acquiring data on FPGA when programming in CompactRIO Scan Mode. with CompactRIO

CompactRIO from a variety of channel types and how to log, Eric Reid, Engineer, National Instruments View a high-speed waveform architecture for CompactRIO and Best Practices for Designing Scalable process, and transfer the data from CompactRIO back to a host. learn how to integrate it with other CompactRIO devices performing Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18B Motion Control Applications on NI Real-Time measurements at different rates. Jeff Tipps, Engineer, National Instruments Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 18B Hardware Platforms Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 18B Jeff Tipps, Engineer, and Learn how to realize motion control applications and deploy them Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 18B Alan Armstead, Engineer, National Instruments to the hardware platform of your choice. Experience how the Advanced: LabVIEW WSN Under the Hood Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 15 LabVIEW NI SoftMotion Module simplifies the design of multiaxis Explore the benefits and capabilities of programming wireless motion applications and see how you can use the same tools to measurement nodes with the LabVIEW WSN Module Pioneer. integrate EtherCAT-based drives into your control application. Take a detailed look at the LabVIEW WSN execution model and Marc Christenson, Systems Engineer, Sisu Devices how the embedded applications can perform custom analysis and decision making and improve battery life. Christian Fritz, Product Manager, National Instruments Corby Bryan, Engineer, National Instruments Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 13A/B Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 15

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Using CompactRIO and LabVIEW for Online Wireless Condition Monitoring of Rotating A Closer Look at 32-Bit versus 64-Bit Beyond the Basics: LabVIEW Debugging Techniques Signal Processing and Data Recording Equipment in Research Reactors with LabVIEW 2010 and Windows 7 Most users are familiar with basic LabVIEW debugging features Learn how you can perform online signal processing of “trapped” Research reactor design limits an engineer’s ability to efficiently Listen as NI and Microsoft experts discuss Windows 7 and 64-bit such as highlight execution, break points, stepping, and error data records using LabVIEW FPGA and LabVIEW Real-Time for monitor plant equipment, and signal measurement locations can technology for solving complex technical challenges. Whether you handling; however, more advanced technologies and techniques waveform acquisition, acquisition triggering, signal processing, and be difficult for technicians to access. Learn how to acquire these are porting a system to a new version of Windows or starting new are helpful for larger, more complex applications. Learn about recording to Technical Data Management Streaming (TDMS) files. measurements to provide information for continuous monitoring development on the OS, it is important to understand which OS custom probes, remotely debuggable executables, probe to disk, See condition monitoring, prognostics, and motor current signature and predictive maintenance of rotating equipment by applying and version best suits your needs. conditional debugging code, and the LabVIEW Desktop

analysis examples. CompactRIO with wireless communication. Robert Doi, Director, Microsoft Execution Trace Toolkit. K C Preston Johnson, Sound and Vibration Segment Manager, and Brent Shumaker, Software Engineer, AMS Armando Valim, Product Manager, National Instruments Tycho Castberg, Senior Engineer, National Instruments TRA Mike Grace, Machine Monitoring Business Development Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 13A Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 16A Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 12A Manager, National Instruments

Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 13A/B Hands-On: Wireless Sensor Networks Adjustable Bandwidth FIR Filters: From Design Building Commercial Software and Add-Ons Explore how to configure and program an NI WSN using LabVIEW. to Implementation through Licensing and Activation Technology What’s New with CompactRIO Walk through ways to set up the network, extract data, and embed Explore a class of adjustable bandwidth finite impulse response Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a commercial Learn about the new hardware and software features for LabVIEW code onto measurement nodes for local decision making. (FIR) filters based on the Farrow structure so the bandwidths can software product or LabVIEW add-on? Licensing and activation easurements and Control and Control easurements CompactRIO and how they can increase your design capabilities technologies can play a big role in enabling professional deployment M Nicholas Butler, Product Manager, National Instruments be tuned by several parameters. The project demonstrates a and efficiency. of software applications. With new features in LabVIEW, it may Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18D complete DSP algorithm design process with LabVIEW, including Arves Stolpe, Product Manager, National Instruments be easier than you think. Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 18D floating-point algorithm prototyping, fixed-point simulation, ndustrial ndustrial I Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 13A/B Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 18D hardware emulation, and onboard execution. Sohum Misra, Software Engineer, National Instruments

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Learn how Web services can enable local and remote human Case Studies in LabVIEW Parallel D evelopment machine interfaces (HMIs). Gain an introduction to tools for Advanced: Best Practices for Memory Programming Performance publishing data from embedded LabVIEW Real-Time targets and Management and LabVIEW Code Optimization LabVIEW is a flexible and natural environment for parallel options for displaying this data on thin clients. programming. With features such as the parallel For Loop, it

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However, getting the best performance may require an q Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 19A Daniel Hedges, Engineer, National Instruments ues understanding of what LabVIEW is doing and how your CPU T Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 12A architecture can affect performance. Look at several parallel ra c k programs and investigate how you can modify them to achieve Best Practices for Software Development better scalability and performance. in LabVIEW Rob Dye, Principal Architect, National Instruments

Examine software engineering practices and tools you can use to Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 12A improve the quality and reliability of LabVIEW applications. Topics include requirements management, ensuring proper style guidelines, conducting code reviews, and tools for static and dynamic code analysis.

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Combine Real-Time Processing and a UI Developing Web-Based User Interfaces for Hands-On: Introducing LabVIEW LabVIEW Design Patterns and SMoReS on One Controller with Virtualization Measurement and Automation Systems Learn about the new features in LabVIEW. Learn how to select, use, and create design patterns to meet

Learn how to run LabVIEW Real-Time in parallel with Windows XP Engineers and scientists expect to control remote measurement Jeffrey Phillips, Product Manager, National Instruments common challenges when engineering applications in G. Also or Red Hat Linux on a single PXI or industrial controller. Also explore and automation systems through Web browsers. Examine new examine the design patterns that go beyond the basics of state Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18C new features in the NI Real-Time Hypervisor including interOS NI tools for developing light, Web-based applications through machines to ensure scalability and code maintainability. Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 18C shared memory and flexible CPU core allocation. graphical programming and how to combine them with LabVIEW Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 18C Norman Kirchner, Engineer, National Instruments RESTful Web services to provide powerful, flexible solutions for Casey Weltzin, Product Manager, National Instruments Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 12A monitoring systems based on LabVIEW via the Web. Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 12A Diya Mukherji, Engineer, National Instruments Introduction to the TDMS File Format Collecting measurement data, saving it for reuse, and sharing it Advanced: LabVIEW Graphical Scripting Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 12B Completing Your RIO System with Custom with others can be challenging. Explore the benefits ofT DMS as Learn ways to programmatically script a LabVIEW VI and examine Hardware: A Case Study Using Multisim a file standard versus other storage techniques, and learn how the LabVIEW R&D team and lead users successfully automate With Multisim, you can easily and quickly define custom circuitry to Finding and Analyzing Technical Data Files Using data-saving best practices to get the most out of your test data. code generation with this powerful tool.

augment your current NI Single-Board RIO system. Using the new LabVIEW and NI DataFinder Derrick Snyder, Product Manager, National Instruments Trevor Christman, Engineer, National Instruments Circaflex daughter card from Cyth Systems as a case study, explore Engineers and scientists spend more time searching through Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 11B Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 12A best practices in codesigning a biomedical embedded system with post-test data for useful information than performing the actual a printed circuit board (PCB) prototype using NI Single-Board RIO test. Observe how NI DataFinder technology and the new API for and Multisim. LabVIEW offer Internet-like search to index, search, find, and Advanced: LabVIEW Classes – The State of the Art LabVIEW GUI Design 2.0 Bhavesh Mistry, Engineer, National Instruments report post-test data across channels, files, and network locations. Join LabVIEW developers who know the LabVIEW basics and Discuss user interface design techniques and how to apply them to are interested in learning more. Discuss new development LabVIEW in this interactive presentation. Learn about conforming Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 12A Caroline Tipton, Product Manager, National Instruments techniques and new LabVIEW features that extend the LabVIEW to Windows OS standards, user interactions, XControls, and .NET, Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 19B S oft k

c OOP model. as well as unique ways to display data. w ra are T Hands-On: Data Management and Reporting Stephen Mercer, Engineer, National Instruments Jonathan Cohn, Engineer, Bloomy Controls D ues Learn how to effectively harness LabVIEW data storage Advanced: Full Speed Ahead – Maximize the evelopment q Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 12A Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 12B ni technologies to document test data using the TDM data model. Performance of NI TestStand ch e

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Demystifying the Cloud Hands-On: How to Build a LabVIEW Add-On Jeffrey Phillips, Product Manager, National Instruments James Kring, CEO, JKI People are talking about the cloud, but do you really understand Walk through the process of building a LabVIEW add-on and how Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 12A Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 12A how it could impact you? Hear from the experts at Microsoft as to package an add-on with the VI Package Manager to plug into they talk about real-world engineering examples using cloud the LabVIEW palettes. Also learn about commonly used APIs and technology and where the technology is headed in the future. how to add licensing and activation to your product.

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LabVIEW UI Tips and Tricks Practical Applications of Web Services in LabVIEW Hands-On: Software Engineering Tips and Tricks to Speed LabVIEW Development Discuss techniques for creating attractive and usable front Gain in-depth knowledge for building Web services into your Get hands-on experience with revision control; Subversion; Participate in an interactive presentation that covers a variety of panels with native LabVIEW features and tools you already know applications and deploying them to your target machines, including NI Requirements Gateway; and the LabVIEW VI Analyzer, simple ways to help you write faster LabVIEW code. Review how to use. the basics of Web services, how to build and deploy as part of LabVIEW Unit Test Framework, and LabVIEW Desktop Execution simple and advanced techniques to easily improve VI performance.

Simon Hogg, Product Manager, National Instruments a .exe installation, pitfalls in designing Web services, and Trace toolkits. Darren Nattinger, Engineer, National Instruments communicating between Web services and LabVIEW .exes. Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 12B Elijah Kerry, Product Manager, National Instruments Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 12B Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 12B John Lokanis, Engineer, F5 Networks Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 18C Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 12B Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 18C Using the C Interface for LabVIEW FPGA New Features and Best Practices for Network Discover how to develop ANSI C-based applications that Data Transfer Raw Data to Results: State Machine versus State Machine communicate with the LabVIEW FPGA interface on a desktop or Sending and receiving data over a network connection is a basic Proper Data Management Techniques Do you start all LabVIEW components with the producer-consumer real-time system.

requirement for any distributed system, but it can become a See how you can move quickly from raw data collection to usable design pattern, or do you use a full-featured state machine? Watch Adri Kruger, Product Manager, and difficult task. In addition to new features in the shared variable, engineering results with NI software for managing measurement two Certified LabVIEW Architects face off over who has the best PJ Tanzillo, Product Manager National Instruments cover new methods for lossless, high-throughput streaming of data, mining, analysis, and reporting. Explore different data state machine and which features are essential for your template. Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 16A waveform data over the network. management strategies and ways to use the latest NI software Nancy Hollenback, LabVIEW Instructor and Architect, Jason Reding, Group Manager, National Instruments features to expand your approach to multiple groups or departments The G Team within your organization. What’s New in LabVIEW Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 12A Justin Goeres, Senior Engineer and Product Manager, JKI Examine the latest LabVIEW features and ways you can use them Derrick Snyder, Product Manager, National Instruments Norman Kirchner, Engineer, National Instruments to improve your productivity and the performance of test, control, Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 11B Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 12B NI TestStand Operator Interface Development and design applications. S oft k c in Practice Jeffrey Phillips, Product Manager, National Instruments w ra are T Learn best practices on how to architect and develop NI TestStand Reduce Test System Obsolescence and Long-Term Team-Based Development and Source Code Control Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 12B D ues operator interfaces using LabVIEW software and see how toolkits Maintenance with the ATML Standard evelopment q Find out how to integrate source code control into LabVIEW to Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 12B ni can simplify operator interface development by abstracting Learn about the Automatic Test Markup Language (ATML) and NI track changes and coordinate work among teams of developers. ch e

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with the LabVIEW MathScript RT Module k oft S of Large LabVIEW Applications Saving Time with Automated Postprocessing The LabVIEW MathScript RT Module has been optimized to run of the latest technologies, such as FPGA-based hardware, and Learn best practices to shorten your build time, simplify Using LabVIEW and DIAdem your custom .m files deterministically on NI real-time hardware share feedback with LabWindows/CVI developers. deployment, and make your code more modular in LabVIEW. Learn how to set up and move data from LabVIEW into DIAdem platforms. Learn how to test for jitter in your applications with Luis Gomes, Engineer, and Miko Hadikusuma, Engineer, National Instruments via TDM and TDMS files to generate professional results reports. MathScript, and see the improved MathScript interactive window Adri Kruger, Product Manager National Instruments Automate repetitious data workflow tasks using DIAdem scripting Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 12A for .m file development. Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 11B to save time. Jeffrey Phillips, Product Manager, National Instruments Brian Banacki, Engineer, and Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 11A Joe Gerhardstein, Principal Engineer, Sirius XM Satellite Radio

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Achieve Hardware Independence with DAQ Advanced: Real Developers Use Five RF Measurements Everyone Should Know Advanced: Inside the SC Express Modules – an Object-Oriented HAL Property Nodes With the rapid integration of wireless connectivity into many Analog Designs and Technologies System readiness is increased when reliance on specific hardware Do you dream about retriggerable tasks and exporting sample devices, chances are you will be taking RF measurements soon. Explore the SC Express modules and learn about the analog design is reduced or removed. HALs are used in test systems to decouple clocks, or are you constantly using NI Spy for debugging? Learn Learn how to use the software-defined PXI platform to take five decisions that enable high-performance conditioned measurements. the test application from the instrument hardware. Examine a tips and tricks from NI hardware and software engineers for solving common RF measurements, including phase noise, noise figure, Also discover technologies, such as delta-sigma analog-to-digital recommended approach for the design and implementation of an the most challenging data acquisition problems. and power. converters (ADCs), ratiometric bridge measurements, and unique

object-oriented HAL in LabVIEW. Daniel Domene, Group Manager, National Instruments David Hall, Product Manager, National Instruments designs to increase accuracy in thermocouple measurements.

Arun Veeramani, Product Support Engineer, National Instruments Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 11B Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 14 Shea Clymer, Group Manager, and Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 14 Shea Sultzer, Engineer, National Instruments Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 13B DC Source Demonstrations: Do You Have Advanced: Precision Linear Measurements Hands-On: Acquire and Process Sound and the Power? of RF Components Vibration Signals Providing power to your DUT is not always as simple as it sounds. Gain insight into new RF instrumentation and measurements Remote Measurements with Explore the technology needed to acquire sound and vibration Accuracy, transient response time, integrated measurements, required to precisely characterize the linear operating parameters NI C Series Hardware signals from real-world accelerometers and microphones. Learn and output speed are important considerations. View product of RF devices. Walk away with an understanding of the appropriate Take measurements remotely with C Series technology and how LabVIEW can take you from raw data to analysis in minutes. demonstrations that address these demanding application measurements, calibration, terminology, and practices to improve Ethernet. C Series modules are rugged, compact measurement modules that combine ADC technology, signal conditioning, and Brooks Campbell, Engineer, National Instruments requirements and learn about programmable power supplies, source accuracy and test times using new RF instruments from NI. measure units (SMUs), and methods for cabling and fixturing. connectivity, all in the same package. Learn how to deploy the Wednesday, August 4 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 18D Steve Tenney, Development Manager, National Instruments collection of more than 50 modules over Ethernet. Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 18D Travis White, Product Manager, National Instruments Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 14 Brett Burger, Product Manager, and Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 14 Charlie Stiernberg, Product Manager, National Instruments

Hands-On: Build an Automated Test System Hack Your Car with NI CAN Interfaces and LabVIEW Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 14 from Scratch Distributed Monitoring with USB DAQ and Wi-Fi Learn the details of automotive diagnostics (OBD-II) and the Explore ways to develop an automated test system from start to Learn how LabVIEW protects people from environmental noise in controller area networking used in every production car since 2008. finish and how to use NI TestStand to quickly sequence your Mexico City, how to architect distributed data acquisition systems, Discover how to use LabVIEW and NI USB controller area network NI X Series Multifunction DAQ: Customer measurements. Also discover ways to use LabVIEW to easily and new approaches to visualizing data in LabVIEW. (CAN) interfaces to gain hidden data from your car, read diagnostic Successes and New Products X Series multifunction DAQ devices offer high-performance communicate with measurement instruments. Professor L. Sanchez, Center for Computing Research, trouble codes, and build custom automotive diagnostic applications. analog, digital, and counter circuitry on a single device, and Peter Flores, Engineer, National Instruments National Polytechnic Institute Noah Reding, Product Manager, National Instruments NI-STC3 timing and synchronization technology to manage these Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 15 Tuesday, August 3 2:15–4:15 p.m. room 18A Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 15 subsystems. Learn about customer successes with X Series and Wednesday, August 4 1:00–3:00 p.m. room 18A the latest products. Evaluating the Latest Intel Microarchitecture for HIL and Real-Time Testing Techniques Sam Freed, Product Manager, National Instruments Creating High-Speed Data Record and Test, Measurement, and Control Applications Real-time testing applications require greater reliability and

Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 14 T est and k The latest microprocessor architecture from Intel, Nehalem, c Playback Systems determinism than a typical stimulus-response test system. ra includes new features such as Intel Turbo Boost Technology, an T Learn how to architect high-speed data record and playback Examine several of these applications and the architectures and

Hands-On: Introduction to Data Acquisition D applications such as RF record and playback, IF/baseband streaming, integrated memory controller, hyperthreading, and advanced power technologies used to develop them. ata Interact with NI engineers, ask questions, and learn the basics of management. Gain an understanding of the details regarding these Acq uisition and high-channel-count data acquisition. Understand how to use Torsten Blochwitz, Project Manager, ITI GmbH using LabVIEW to take measurements from NI DAQ devices. new features and how they impact various test, measurement, and uisition Acq high-throughput PXI Express instruments, chassis, and controllers Chris Washington, Senior Product Manager, Seth Berry, Engineer, and ata ata to create systems with up to 6.4 GB/s of total system throughput. control applications. D National Instruments

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Top Considerations for Optical Sensing Model-Based Simulation and Prototyping NI FlexRIO and LabVIEW FPGA for Test Applications Perform Any Test on Any Structure Several methods can be used for optical measurements. Fiber of an Electric Vehicle Explore ways to use NI modular instruments, NI FlexRIO FPGAs, NI is revolutionizing the world of structural test with ease of use Bragg grating (FBG) is a proven technology with the ability to Discover Dynacar, a new tool built with LabVIEW that integrates peer-to-peer (P2P) data streaming, and LabVIEW FPGA for and new measurement capabilities. See how G Systems uses NI perform highly accurate strain measurements. Explore the new with physical hardware for rapid prototyping vehicle control accelerating and enabling new test applications. Focus on tools to solve challenging structural test applications, and explore LabVIEW driver for FBG-based measurements, top considerations applications. The dynamic model is based on a detailed modeling programming for new PXI Express NI FlexRIO FPGA adapter reference architectures and other case studies.

for FBG measurements, and new application areas. of longitudinal and lateral dynamics with front axle, vehicle body, modules with DSP-focused Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs using new features Nathan Yang, Product Manager, National Instruments and rear-axle approaches. Driver input is taken into account to in the LabVIEW FPGA Module. Nathan Yang, Product Manager, National Instruments Josh Rouse, Engineer, G Systems evaluate system response. Ryan Verret, Product Manager, National Instruments Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 14 Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 16B Alberto Pena, Researcher, Tecnalia Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 13A/B Wednesday, August 4 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 15 Introduction to Optical Sensing Plan for Success with Automated Test Optical sensing provides benefits that help engineers perform Hands-On: NI VeriStand Whether you are writing a test architecture or using off-the-shelf previously difficult or impossible measurements.T opics include a Moving Beyond Test System Efficiency to Test-drive NI VeriStand software to learn how it can help reduce the products such as NI TestStand, complications may arise. Discuss comparison of electrical and optical measurements, the benefits of Test Data Management development time and risk of your real-time testing application. the common pitfalls of test frameworks and how a good design optical sensing, an overview of various optical sensing technologies, Learn about a standardized PXI and LabVIEW test platform that Also discover how you can use LabVIEW and NI TestStand to add allows for reliable test execution and flexibility to expand with the and a how-to guide for optical measurements with LabVIEW. reduces system cost and increases test throughput. Test more functionality to NI VeriStand. needs of a changing product or production environment. specifications and results are managed using a custom global Nathan Yang, Product Manager, National Instruments Chris Washington, Senior Product Manager, Elaine Ramundo, Engineer, Bloomy Controls database that improves test parameter maintainability and data National Instruments Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 13A/B Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 11A analysis efficiency, and real-time monitoring provides feedback to Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 18A the manufacturing process to quickly resolve production issues. Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 18A Introduction to PXI and PXI Express Randy Sparks, Manager of Automated Test Development, Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 18A Power Measurements 101 Learn about the latest technical features of the PXI and PXI Express Knowles Electronics Applications for power are widespread, but some of the more platforms. Understand what makes these platforms ideal for Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 14 popular requirements today include device and appliance test in Nondestructive Resonance Inspection high-bandwidth applications and tight synchronization, enabling addition to smart grid research and development. Learn power Gain an overview of resonance inspection techniques through an 1,500 different instruments. Also take a sneak peek at new basics and how to make some of the most common power Advanced: NASA Hearing Aid Analysis and introduction of software architecture for interactive impact products and user solutions. measurements with NI tools. Audio Test Architectures with NI testing. Understand how to acquire and analyze useful frequency Sarah Schlonsky, Product Manager, and Brett Burger, Product Manager, National Instruments Learn about hearing aid technology, what NASA is doing to response data. Patrick Webb, Product Manager, National Instruments Thursday, August 5 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 17A protect the next generation of astronauts, and how it will impact Doug Bendele, Engineer, National Instruments Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 15 real-world hearing aids. Review the software architecture and Tuesday, August 3 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 15 analysis algorithms created in LabVIEW. Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring (SHM): Introducing SC Express: High-Performance Jeff Schmitt, President, ViAcoustics The New Paradigm in Infrastructure Management Sensor Measurements Optimize Your Test System and Reduce Test Time Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 11B Through advances in sensors, digitizers, communication, and T est and k Using LabVIEW and NI TestStand c Discover the high-performance PXI Express NI DAQ modules software, SHM has become an effective tool for making accurate ra Discover how to optimize the performance of your test system by T with integrated signal conditioning for scalable sensor and timely remote evaluations of civil structures. Review the D

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Real-Time Testing with NI VeriStand Hands-On: Structural Test Testing Audio Device Quality: Why Buy Using Simulation as a Test Development Platform NI VeriStand is a software environment for configuring real-time Structural test is defined as submitting a structure made of many Headphones That Cost $300 USD? Test developers depend on physical prototypes to develop and testing applications. While no programming knowledge is required parts through various conditions to validate a design, which involves New audio devices offer noise-cancelling capabilities, advanced debug test programs, causing significant schedule delays. to use NI VeriStand, you can use a variety of NI and third-party a combination of high-performance measurements with powerful encoding/decoding algorithms, and 5.1 or 7.1 digital audio Furthermore, test development can be impeded by insufficient environments to add custom functionality. Gain an introduction control. Get hands-on experience with structural sensors including surround-sound technologies. Learn how key measurements can design for test. Find out how Medtronic is implementing an initiative to NI VeriStand and learn how you can use it to create real-time strain gages, accelerometers, and thermocouples with the SC identify a high-quality device and how the latest digital audio that could achieve up to a 60 percent reduction in test development testing applications more efficiently. Express family of PXI Express modules and NI CompactDAQ. technologies are improving today’s audio devices. time using a new combination of design tools.

Chris Washington, Senior Product Manager, National Instruments Jack Arnold, Systems Engineer, National Instruments Jack Arnold, Systems Engineer, National Instruments Jaena Hylander, Engineer, Medtronic Inc.

Tuesday, August 3 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 13A/B Tuesday, August 3 2:15–3:15 p.m. room 18D Tuesday, August 3 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 15 Darrell Teegarden, Engineer, Mentor Graphics

Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 18D Wednesday, August 4 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 11B Smart Phones for Smarter Data Acquisition Advanced: Testing Next-Generation You probably carry around more computing power in your pocket Advanced: Switching Configurations for Large Multimedia Devices What’s New in Instrument Control today than you had on your desktop 10 years ago. Learn how to Test Systems Testing multimedia devices requires advanced digital video analysis Learn about new features in LabVIEW and the Virtual Instrument harness the capabilities of the iOS and Android to acquire Switching can become challenging in test systems that incorporate tools for the latest standards including 1080p/60 Hz Full HD video, Software Architecture (VISA), including the latest drivers for measurement data on a mobile computing platform and share it multiple instruments and hundreds of channels. Discuss best 7.1 channel embedded audio, 3D content, and streaming video. connected instruments and usability improvements that can help with your colleagues over the Internet. practices for creating high-reliability switching systems in a short Gain background knowledge for digital video testing and view a you get started with your applications quickly. Discuss new Charlie Stiernberg, Product Manager, and development cycle, focusing on common challenges including demo of NI VideoMASTER for digital video testing. products and features for GPIB that can reduce your setup time Joe Friedrichsen, Engineer, National Instruments connectivity, maintenance, and programming. Birger Schneider, Managing Director, National Instruments and cost.

Wednesday, August 4 3:30–4:30 p.m. room 14 Jordan Dolman, Product Manager, National Instruments Thursday, August 5 10:30–11:30 a.m. room 16B Murali Ravindran, Senior Product Manager, National Instruments

Wednesday, August 4 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 11B Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 13B Standard or Custom: Emulate and Test Any Using Honeywell Pressure, Load, and Torque Protocol with LabVIEW FPGA Synchronizing Scalable Sensor Sensors with Data Acquisition Systems Wireless Monitoring of Real-World Structures Reduce cost and time using NI FlexRIO products for implementing Measurement Systems Learn the importance of using high-quality pressure, load, and torque Explore how you can use real-world monitoring to track behavior custom protocols that require demanding hardware and software Learn how to build synchronized scalable data acquisition and sensors, including the correct selection, design, and installation for and detect damage in structures. Researchers are developing a development. Use the flexibility of FPGAs to emulate a variety of sensor measurement systems on the PXI Express platform. the application. Gain an overview of sensing technology and the wireless monitoring system for highway bridges that will be capable 2 protocols, including SPI, I C, Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC), Discover how recent innovations in hardware and software value of using quality outputs from sensors combined with ease of supporting multiple sensors with sufficient computing power to and High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC), with different time technologies simplify the synchronization of measurements across of connectivity and setup to modern data acquisition systems. process sensor data. View initial results of wireless communication domains on a single system. different sensor types using SC Express, DSA, and X Series Brian Duffy, Global Applications Engineering Manager, Honeywell tests along with challenges of structural monitoring. devices. Also learn about different synchronization methods and Raajit Lall, Product Manager, National Instruments Tuesday, August 3 4:45–5:45 p.m. room 15 Jeremiah Fasl, Engineer, The University of Texas at Austin the trade-offs associated with them. Thursday, August 5 1:00–2:00 p.m. room 17B Richard Lindenberg, Senior Associate, Wiss, Janney, Elstner

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The Military and Aerospace Pavilion features the NI Mobile Expo, an exhibition of the latest automated test and Visit the RF and Wireless Test Pavilion to see interactive demonstrations of the fast, flexible, and accurate PXI embedded design technologies from NI for aerospace and defense. Visit the pavilion to see demonstrations platform from National Instruments that industry leaders are using to meet the demanding test requirements including HIL, structural test and monitoring, RF, wireless measurements, and more. of today’s RF and wireless devices.

Software-Defined RF Test Reduce Test Time with the PXI Platform Learn about the integrated NI PXI platform for RF measurements, including spectral PXI instruments use high-performance, multicore processors to dramatically reduce test monitoring and SIGINT, peer-to-peer data analysis with FPGAs, RF record and playback, times and lower test costs. View demonstrations of multiple test systems using and GPS receiver test. software-defined instrumentation to meet the time-sensitive needs for validation and production test. Also watch demonstrations that showcase the high-speed PXI Express data bus for streaming applications including multichannel RF record and playback, a test Structural Test and Monitoring method enabled by the PXI platform that allows you to stream terabyte-sized waveforms See how PXI Express and LabVIEW provide instrumentation-grade I/O and industrial-grade to and from disk with NI RF vector signal analyzers and generators. control to perform any test on any structure.

Software-Defined Instrumentation HIL Simulation and Test Using RF toolkits for LabVIEW, you can define the same set ofR F hardware as a MIMO Provide stimuli to a flight controller using a joystick or autopilot on a simulated plane. View receiver, a GPS simulator, an RF record and playback system, or a mobile communications how the controller commands the control surfaces on a physical model and observe tester for protocols ranging from RFID and ZigBee to GSM, WCDMA, WLAN, and WiMAX. simulated flight information through a digital display. At the RF and Wireless Test Pavilion, see how you can use this software-defined approach to meet the fast-evolving needs of the wireless industry. Prototyping and Deployment with RIO Discover how Ventura Aerospace delivered a custom embedded monitoring and fire control Prototype, Validate, and Test on a Single Platform suppression system for FedEx Express in record time. See how NI RIO hardware supports The NI software-defined approach and flexible hardware architecture enable you to keep up hardware integration. with the constantly evolving wireless industry through tools for signal generation, analysis, visualization, and processing of standard and custom analog and digital modulation. With Sponsor National Instruments Software Showcase the RF PXI platform and LabVIEW, you can prototype, validate, and test new designs on Sponsors Learn how NI software tools reduce development time and improve test execution a single platform. View live demonstrations of the latest hardware and software additions performance as exemplified by testing a jet fighter pilot helmet and its head-up display. to the NI RF product family:

■■ Multichannel, phase-coherent RF record and playback of 50 MHz bandwidth up to 6.6 GHz Parallel Test with Hybrid Instrumentation ■■ Real-time generation and acquisition using LabVIEW FPGA and peer-to-peer streaming Explore a DUT with PXI, VXI, and LXI/USB/GPIB instruments. Learn about IVI software ■■ Parallel production test for land mobile radios compatibility, PXI speed advantages, and autoscheduling and parallel test with ■■ Real-time GPS simulator NI TestStand. ■■ Power amplifier characterization

■■ High-volume production test of GPS, DVB, WLAN, ZigBee, and WiMAX

Wireless Measurements ■■ Phase-coherent MIMO test system used for 802.11n, WiMAX, and 3GPP LTE Learn how wireless measurement devices can provide test and monitoring systems with increased flexibility and lower costs. Discover how different wireless technologies can meet a variety of remote application challenges for which a cabled solution may be impractical or impossible.

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The Robotics Pavilion is an interactive exhibit demonstrating how LabVIEW graphical programming and NI Stop by the Vision Pavilion to see machine vision solutions in action and test-drive the full line of NI vision hardware embedded hardware platforms are used across the robotics landscape in academia and industry. Visit the and software at the vision product hands-on station. Speak with vision industry experts, component providers, pavilion to learn how the NI robotics platform spans from 8-year-olds working with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT and systems integrators to get your vision applications up and running. to more sophisticated robots used for applications ranging from spacecraft thrusters to solar panels.

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■■ See how NI helps inspire tens of thousands of kids through programs such as the ■■ FPGA-based acquisition and image processing FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC) ■■ Metrology inspection ■■ Learn how high school students can use CompactRIO to develop sophisticated ■■ Solar cell inspection robotics systems and expand their engineering skills

LabVIEW Robotics Meet the Experts Speak with experts from many of the world’s leading vision companies about how you Robots mean many things to many people, and NI offers intuitive and productive design can successfully employ NI vision hardware and software in your applications. Talk to tools for everything from designing autonomous vehicles to teaching robotics design NI engineers about the new features in the NI Vision Development Module and how to principles. LabVIEW makes it easy to program complex robotics applications by providing integrate them in your current and future projects. a high level of abstraction for sensor communication, obstacle avoidance, path planning, kinematics, steering, and more. Check out the new LabVIEW Robotics software at the Robotics Pavilion. Complete Your Vision System View product demonstrations and speak with vision exhibitors about lighting, cameras, Sponsors optics, and systems integration. Visit with partners and integrators about how their Exhibitors products and services can make your vision application come to life when combined 3M Electronic Solutions Division Adsys Controls Inc. with NI vision products. Advanced Illumination Allied Vision Technologies Basler Vision Technologies Cyth Systems Robotics Partners Edmund Optics FLIR Systems Graftek Imaging Inc. Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. KSE Texas Inc. R MoviMED NET USA Norpix Inc. Smart Vision Lights

80 81 NI Services and Training Pavilion A Real-Time Solution… Since 2000, Digitexx has been providing real-time Structural Health Monitoring systems to alert owners to potential structural damage. Every day you are challenged to do more with less. Visit the NI Services and Training Pavilion to learn more Our systems are designed to incorporate multiple sensor types, about a variety of product and professional services as well as training and certification programs to meet your can be portable or permanent and manage as little as 16 to 100’s of channels. If a natural or man-made event takes place on a structure PARTS INSIDE needs at every stage of the application life cycle – from planning and development through deployment and and a threshold it surpassed, our system immediately alerts designated Software Built in parties with the information they need to make informed decisions. ongoing maintenance. LABVIEW REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS Our system architecture is flexible and can be NI Offers a Wide Range of Services customized for just about any structure including: Hardware Services – Warranty and repair, calibration, and system assurance • Bridges • Buildings • Wind Turbines Software Services – Software support, maintenance, and volume licensing • Dams & Levees • Oil Rigs & Pipelines Training and Certification – Training on key software and hardware offerings and • Towers or Other Structures multiple certification levels SEE US AT OUR NI WEEK SESSION FOR A DEMONSTRATION TS2992-TD Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring: NI Services and Training Solutions Ensure Your Success The New Paradigm in Infrastructure Management. ■■ Shorten your application development time by half www.digitexx.com ■■ Stay up-to-date with the latest LabVIEW features Arizona Office (Headquarters): California Office: Europe Office: (T) 623.242.1198 ■■ Keep your hardware instruments operating more efficiently and accurately 13880 N. Northsight Blvd. 201 South Lake Ave. 73, Salvador Aljende Str. (TF) 877.821.6020 with calibration Suite 109 Suite 702 1000 Skopje (F) 480.922.4319 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Pasadena, CA 91101 Republic of Macedonia www.digitexx.com

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Adsys Controls Inc AmFax Ltd. Benstone Instruments Circuit Check Inc.

EXHIBITORS’ Booth 838 Booth 316 Booth 320 Booth 300 LOUNGE AND SALES OFFICE Adsys Controls, an NI Alliance Partner, LabVIEW AmFax designs, manufactures, and supports Benstone Instruments will demonstrate our Circuit Check designs, builds, and programs THEATER system integrator, and custom design house, functional/special solutions in aerospace, new NOVIAN sound and vibration software, high-performance functional test systems. specializes in advanced control systems, imaging defense, RF, and automotive markets, and which works with NI 9233/9234 modules for circuitcheck.com systems, and automated test equipment. develops RF test systems using PXI hardware a 4-to-32-channel real-time analyzer. adsyscontrols.com and software for GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, benstone.com Conduant Corporation Bluetooth, and WLAN. Booth 430 CONNECT WATERLOO ROBOTICS @NIWeek amfax.co.uk LABS PAVILION Advanced Illumination Bloomy Controls Inc. Conduant supplies PCI Express high-speed LOUNGE Booth 800 Booth 416 data recorders and specialized storage devices Advanced Illumination designs and AMTEC Corporation Bloomy Controls specializes in high-performance for recording and playback performance up to manufactures LED lighting and electronics for Booth 918 automated test, data acquisition, and control 800 MB/s.

940 841 840 741 538 441 440 341 340 241 machine vision, including an extensive line of Ametc Corporation, a small business in systems for research, validation, and conduant.com

938 839 838 739 MENTS MENTS 439 339 338 239 standard products, plus expandable lights and Huntsville, Alabama, provides test and manufacturing for the energy, medical, mil/aero,

ONTROL ONTROL smart electronics. evaluation support, systems engineering, and semiconductor industries. 936 837 836 737 C C 536 437 438 337 336 237 Cyth Systems

INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIAL advancedillumination.com technology applications, training, automation, bloomy.com AND AND 334 235 Booth 707 MEASURE MEASURE robotics, and manufacturing. JEEP 932 333 Cyth Systems is the premier engineering firm DEMO amtec-corp.com AIM-USA Boston Engineering in Southern California for designing automated 930 831 430 331 330 231 Booth 938 Booth 916 test systems, machine vision systems, and

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C TEST AND DATA DESIGN AIM-USA is a leading manufacturer of avionics Aventas Inc. Boston Engineering offers turnkey project embedded control systems.

PA 926 827 ACQUISITION 426 327 326 227 embedded and test and simulation products Booth 227 development services to meet clients’ cythsystems.com

N for MIL-STD-1553A/B, ARINC429, AFDX, Texas-based Aventas represents One Stop immediate and long-term needs for electrical, AEROS

922 323 322 223 ARINC664, fibre channel, and MIL-STD-1760 Systems, the market leading manufacturer for mechanical, software, and controls engineering. Davis Calibration AND

PAVILIO 920 821 420 321 320 221 applications. PCI Express solutions, and Alta DT, the boston-engineering.com Booth 837 918 319 318 219 aimusa-online.com premier manufacturer for 1553 and ARINC. LabVIEW LabVIEW E Davis operates North America’s largest network C MILITARY ZONE ZONE aventasinc.com 916 817 416 317 316 217 Bruel & Kjaer of Calibration Labs. With 29 locations, we Alfamation Booth 333 provide custom-tailored services to help lower Booth 307 NI PRODUCT SHOWCASE ENTRAN Averna Brüel & Kjær will present acoustic and vibration your total equipment costs. RF AND VISION WIRELESS Booths 407 and 401 daviscalibration.com PAVILION Founded in 1991, Alfamation is a solutions transducers including specialty microphones, PAVILION E C provider that challenges traditional approaches Averna is a global test engineering solutions high-temperature IEPE accelerometers, signal 906 807 806 707 407 406 307 to functional test applications in the automotive, company and a strategic partner for innovative conditioning, vibration test solutions, and an DENSO Robotics ENTRAN É É consumer electronics, telecom, and medical OEMs. audio analyzer based on LabVIEW. Booth 339 AF C 1002 903 902 803 802 402 302 203 industries. averna.com bkhome.com DENSO Robotics offers a range of compact, 1000 901 900 801 800 701 401 400 301 300 201 alfautomazione.com 4-axis SCARA and 6-axis articulated robots for Basler Vision Technologies Cal-Bay Systems Inc. payloads up to 20 kg and reaches from 350 to NI SERVICES NI STORE AND TRAINING Allied Vision Technologies Booth 836 Booth 821 1,300 mm. Booth 906 ENTRANENTRANCEE Basler manufacturers area and line-scan Cal-Bay is a recognized leader for test and densorobotics.com Allied Vision Technologies, with its subsidiary cameras using charge-coupled devices (CCD) measurement solutions when product quality Prosilica, is the leading supplier of digital IEEE and CMOS sensors. Interfaces include IEEE is critical, serving leading companies in DISTek Integration 1394 and GigE Vision cameras to the industrial 1394, Camera Link, and gigabit Ethernet. biomedical, mil/aero, and power generation. Booth 341 automation and scientific imaging markets. baslerweb.com calbay.com DISTek Integration’s expertise includes alliedvisiontech.com 3M Electronic Solutions Division ACO Pacific Inc. embedded solutions, test, measurement, Booth 900 Booth 237 Beijing Zhong Ke Fan Hua M&C CIM Industrial Systems A/S simulation, automation, HIL, and control. Technology Co. Ltd. Booth 1000 3M Electronic Solutions Division provides For more than 32 years, ACO Pacific Inc. has American Reliance Inc. (AMREL) DISTek specializes in ANSI C, LabVIEW, Booth 536 Booth 922 interconnect solutions to electronic equipment been manufacturing stainless precision CIM Industrial Systems A/S is the leading NI TestStand, FPGA, real time, MATLAB, manufacturers and assemblers. Solutions measurement microphones and systems. We AMREL manufactures rugged mobile computer Beijing Zhong Ke Fan Hua M&C Co. Ltd. LabVIEW developer company in Europe. The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink®, and CANbus. include Ultra Hard Metric Socket Connector have taken a quiet approach offering innovative solutions as well as a range of programmable specializes in the testing and measurement cim.as distek.com for PICMG 2.30 CompactPCI PlusIO standard. products to worldwide markets. air/water-cooled electronic loads (60 W to field and supplies test and measurement 3m.com/electronics acopacific.com 100 kW+) and programmable linear/switching product solutions and testing equipment. power supplies (20 W to 900 kW+). pansino.com.cn amrel.com

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Dynamic Technology Inc. Feedback Incorporated Goodwill Industries of Central Texas Honeywell Sensing and Controls MAC Panel Co. Micron Optics Inc. Booth 801 Booth 831 Booth 101 Booth 337 Booth 926 Booth 928 Dynamic Technology Inc. is an official NI Feedback is a manufacturer of laboratory The Goodwill Computer Museum (GCM) is Honeywell offers a broad portfolio of load cells, MAC Panel, a world leader in Mass Interconnect Micron Optics is the leading provider of tunable calibration service provider and offers metrology equipment and curriculum for engineering. dedicated to the preservation and restoration pressure sensors, torque transducers, and solutions, provides industry-leading design optical technologies for measurements of services nationwide. A2LA accredited to Visit our booth to see our new electricity/ of vintage computer equipment. View our more for test and measurement applications innovation and offers wiring solutions that save FBG-based sensors deployed on civil structures, ISO/IEC 17025, ANSI/NCSL Z540-1, and electronics boards with the NI ELVIS platform. display of historically significant artifacts and as well as plug-and-play compatibility with customers time and money. aerospace vehicles, oil wells, and more. ANSI/NCSL Z540.3. feedback-group.com demonstrate functional legacy computer National Instruments equipment. macpanel.com micronoptics.com dtical.com hardware. We will also display information on honeywellsensing.com/sensotec Fiber Sensing environmental technology and the importance Maintainable Software Mini-Circuits/Cain-Forlaw Edmund Optics Booth 223 of recycling end-of-life electronics. ITI GmbH Booth 839 Booth 229 austingoodwill.org Booth 701 Fiber Sensing is a world leader in the Booth 338 Maintainable Test is a complete data Cain-Forlaw is a manufacturer’s representative Edmund Optics is a leading supplier of development, production, and installation of ITI is one of the leading software and management solution for manufacturing test. offering a broad range of RF/microwave optics/optical components. We design and advanced monitoring systems based on optical G Systems engineering companies for plant modeling and Our modern, Web-based software has tools components. Mini-Circuits a global leader in manufacture a wide array of multielement FBG technology. Booth 400 system simulation. The company develops the for managing operations, engineering, and design and manufacturing of RF/IF/microwave lenses, lens coatings, imaging systems, and fibersensing.com G Systems improves test performance and simulation software SimulationX. quality assurance. components from DC to 20 GHz. optomechanical equipment. saves customers money through design and iti.de maintainabletest.com minicircuits.com cain-forlaw.com edmundoptics.com FLIR Systems integration of custom test and measurement, Booth 737 data acquisition, and control system solutions. JET Engineering Inc. Maplesoft gsystems.com Emona Instruments PTY Ltd FLIR Systems designs, manufactures, and Booth 321 Booth 840 Mink Hollow Systems Inc. Booth 901 markets infrared imaging systems worldwide. JET maximizes our customer’s return on Maplesoft provides high-performance Booth 930 Emona Instruments manufactures add-on Commercial product applications include G.R.A.S. Sound & Vibration investment by using National Instruments software tools that manage the mathematics Mink Hollow Systems integrates custom boards for the NI ELVIS II/+ platform: DATEx nondestructive testing, research and Booth 437 tools and providing expert consulting, design, involved in the development of engineering off-the-shelf solutions using a mix of standard for wireless telecoms, FOTEx for fiber optics, development, manufacturing process control, G.R.A.S. offers a range of acoustical devices build, and test services. system models. NI components, custom hardware, and HELEx for green energy, and the new SIGS-311 and predictive maintenance. designed and manufactured in accordance with jetinc.net maplesoft.com LabVIEW software. for EE Signals and Systems labs. flirthermography.com international standards including standard minkhollowsystems.com qpsk.com measurement microphones, preamplifiers, JKI Software Marking Systems Inc. FunctionSIM – ExpertControl simulators, and accessories. Booth 841 Booth 231 MoviMED gras.us Esteco Booth 336 JKI, a premier provider of consulting services Marking Systems Inc. manufactures durable, Booth 1002 Booth 318 FunctionSIM is a dedicated group of and commercial add-ons for LabVIEW, custom product labels, insulators, and MoviMED offers innovative solutions for Esteco develops and markets modeFRONTIER, engineering professionals committed to Graftek Imaging Inc. specializes in transforming your R&D LabVIEW membrane switches using the latest technology difficult imaging applications, including 2D and the multiobjective optimization software that providing computer-aided solutions to Booth 807 code into commercial-quality, shipping products. in screen printing and digital printing methods. 3D, thermal imaging, and robotic vision for can be coupled to LabVIEW to optimize mechanical and control systems product Graftek Imaging provides machine vision jkisoft.com markingsystems.com industrial and autonomous robots. process control. design and development. components and turnkey solutions to help you movimed.com esteco.com functionsim.com choose the right lighting, lens, and camera for KSE Texas Inc. Meggit Sensing Systems your project. Booth 802 Booth 402 National Technical Systems graftek.com Ettus Research Inc. FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology KSE Texas Inc. is a private labeler and master Meggitt’s Endevco, Sensorex, Vibro-Meter, Booth 806 Booth 221 Booth 235 distributor of vision system lighting such as and Wilcoxon Research product lines are now National Technical Systems provides integrated Ettus Research designs and builds the Universal Located in California, FUTEK Advanced Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. LED, incandescent, fiber optics, and fluorescent offered under Meggitt Sensing Systems. Since engineering services, technical solutions, Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), enabling Sensor Technology Inc. is a leading U.S. Booth 334 lighting products, with an on-site lighting lab. 1947, Endevco has been the most trusted product testing, compliance design, regulatory engineers to rapidly create powerful, flexible, manufacturer and supplier of load cells, force Hitachi Kokusai offers the additions of Genicam ksetexas.com provider of vibration, shock, and pressure standards compliance testing, evaluation, and low-cost software radio systems. sensors, torque sensors, and pressure compliant GigE Vision cameras as well as measurement solutions. project management, technical resources, ettus.com sensors with related Instruments. analog, IEEE 1394, and Camera Link formats. Lion Precision meggitt.com engineering solutions, and managed services. ntscorp.com futek.com hitachikokusai.com Booth 436 Fastek Lion Precision provides high-performance Mentor Graphics Booth 439 noncontact displacement/position sensing Booth 241 Fastek is an engineering and solutions company systems. Capacitive and inductive sensors Mentor Graphics is a world leader in that provides hardware and software services have ranges from 10 µm to 10 mm with electronic hardware/software design from HIL systems to production test and nanometer resolutions. solutions, including accelerating test program measurement automation. lionprecision.com development using a collaboration of fastekintl.com LabVIEW and virtual prototype technology. mentor.com

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NET USA PCB Piezotronics Inc. RF Test and Measurement Teclution Teledyne Relays Unmanned Solution Co. Ltd Booth 903 Booth 441 Solutions LLC Booth 741 Booth 219 Booth 940 NET USA supplies high-quality cameras such PCB Piezotronics offers ICP and charge Booth 301 Teclution is the turnkey measurement and Teledyne Relays develops subminiature RF We develop unmanned vehicles and the as GimaGO GigE Vision, FOculus IEEE 1394, output accelerometers; pressure, force and RF Test and Measurement Solutions provides automation systems provider in the Middle East electromechanical relays delivering high intelligent robot to sell to research-oriented iCube USB 2.0, OEM camera boards, and torque sensors; precision condenser, test engineering services, designs and and provides innovative control experiments, performance from DC to 8 GHz and coaxial companies. miniature camera heads for medical and prepolarized, and array microphones; and implements test systems, offers hardware and customer-specific products and solutions, and switches DC to 33 GHz for demanding unmansol.com industrial applications. preamplifiers with TEDS. software solutions, and provides LabVIEW and complex system integration projects. instrumentation, test, measurement, and net-gmbh.com pcb.com RF training and consulting services. teclution.com military applications. VI Service Network Co. Ltd. rftms.com teledynerelays.com Booth 203 Norpix Inc. PFC Flexible Circuits Limited Tecnalia Corporation VI Service Network provides high-quality Booth 323 Booth 936 Robotics Trends Booth 327 Test Equity professional services for virtual Norpix is a developer of high-speed digital PFC designs, manufactures, and assembles Booth 331 Tecnalia Corporation is a multidisciplinary Booth 302 instrumentation using its expertise in RFID test, video recording software and solutions and flexible circuits including single and double- Robotics Trends is the leading media company private and independent R&D foundation Test Equity specializes in supplying quality new spectrum monitoring, structure monitoring, provides turnkey solutions including software, sided, multilayer, and rigid-flexible circuits, and serving the personal, service, industrial, mobile headquartered in Bilbao, Spain, with 2009 and refurbished electronic test equipment as and automotive electronic tests. cameras, computers, synchronization, and specialized in fine line and impedance control. robotics, and intelligent systems marketplace income of over $180M and approximately well as environmental temperature chambers. vi-china.com.cn precision timing. pfcflex.com through its websites, publications, and events. 1,600 researchers. testequity.com roboticstrends.com norpix.com tecnalia.info Virginia Panel Corporation Phase Matrix Inc. Texas Instruments Booth 426 Olympus Controls Booth 406 S.E.A. Datentechnik GmbH Teledyne Microelectronics Booth 326 Virginia Panel Corporation (VPC) provides Booth 322 Phase Matrix designs and manufactures RF/ Booth 317 Booth 217 Texas Instruments, a global semiconductor Mass Interconnect solutions that enable Olympus Controls is a customer-driven, microwave test and measurement instruments, S.E.A. Datentechnik GmbH develops Teledyne Microelectronics is a leader in company, helps customers solve problems and simultaneous connection of multiple test and solutions-focused company with the breadth subsystems, and components. PXI products customized and OEM solutions for component innovative, custom high-density, high-reliability develop new electronics that make the world measurement signal types through one and depth of experience to cover every aspect include a family of downconverter modules, tests and test equipment, test stands, wind microelectronics packaging solutions for smarter, healthier, safer, greener, and more fun. modular interface. of machine automation. which operate from 100 kHz to 26.5 GHz. tunnel control software, CompactRIO modules, aerospace/defense and instrumentation ti.com vpc.com olympus-controls.com phasematrix.com and software toolkits. markets, and a Department of Defense trusted sea-gmbh.com source for microelectronics. Thermotron Product Test Solutions Xilinx Inc. One Source Group PVI Systems Inc. teledynemicro.com Booth 340 Booth 420 Booth 330 Booth 438 SpectraQuest Inc. In addition to offering a range of environmental Xilinx Inc. is the worldwide leader in From design through delivery, One Source PVI Systems, an engineering company, offers Booth 827 Teledyne Scientific simulation equipment, Thermotron is capable programmable solutions. Its award-winning Group has created leading-edge efficiencies innovative solutions, such as CLARITY-DSA, SpectraQuest is a leading provider of turnkey Booth 217 of providing complete solutions to meet silicon, software, and IP products enable and parallel processes that allow us to meet a general-purpose, scalable, turnkey data systems for education/training, condition Teledyne Scientific is your source for electronic and mechanical functional testing designers to drastically reduce time to market the most aggressive schedules built exactly acquisition system based on the NI PXI monitoring, and research in wind energy, multigigasamples per second wide-bandwidth requirements. in many industries. to specifications. hardware platform. vibration fundamentals, kinematics and ADC, DAC, and track and holds for RF signal thermotron.com xilinx.com onesource-group.com pvisys.com dynamics machines, controls, and machinery generators/analyzers, signal integrity testers, fault diagnosis. optical communication signal analyzers, and Tribal Engineering Yaskawa Electric America spectraquest.com Optimation Technology PWG Systems military and aerospace applications. Booth 932 Booth 739 teledyne-si.com Booth 817 Booth 319 Tribal Engineering works with customers to find At the core of mechatronics are servos and Optimation provides solutions and services Phoenix Products Inc. is an 8(a), HUBZone, Smart Vision Lights answers to engineering problems. We offer an VFDs. These “muscle packages” from Yaskawa for industrial and manufacturing applications, small business providing integrated automated Booth 902 Teledyne Microwave Intelligent Control Toolkit for LabVIEW, adding Electric America connect via digital or analog including process and mechanical engineering, solutions. PPI is the NI training center for Smart Vision Lights manufactures a line of LED Booth 219 AI capabilities to your controls. networks to LabVIEW. automation, systems integration, test North Alabama and Southern Tennessee. lights that apply the benefits of high-current Teledyne Microwave is a worldwide leader in tribalengineering.com yaskawa.com systems, fabrication, installation, construction, pwghsv.com LEDs for industrial vision applications. the design, development, and manufacturing smartvisionlights.com and maintenance. of microwave components, integrated UCSD Coordinated optimation.us Quanser microwave assemblies, and subsystems for the Robotics Laboratory Booth 538 Symbio aerospace, defense, communications, aviation, Booth 239 and instrumentation markets. Quanser, the world leader in mechatronics Booth 803 The UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab develops teledynemicrowave.com and control, develops industry-relevant control Symbio delivers software services targeted small, simple robots with enhanced agility and laboratory solutions for hands-on teaching and toward advanced test systems for that can overcome large, complex obstacles advanced research for organizations and development and production, and founded using LabVIEW and NI Single-Board RIO. universities worldwide. GOOP, the tool for object-oriented LabVIEW. robotics.ucsd.edu quanser.com symbio.com

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Canon Communications’ Engineering Group serves the needs of the worldwide engineering Penton Media offers unparalleled coverage of the mechanical design and electronics markets with community in print, online, database products, and face-to-face events and with comprehensive 849,000 magazine subscribers, 345,000 newsletter subscribers, 16 websites, and 15 e-mail technology research by understanding the needs of engineers and engineering managers and newsletters. The group focuses on being the number one supplier of the most up-to-date presenting the information in multiple formats. Canon Communications publications include technical material that helps engineers remain competitive. Editors focus on new technology and Design News, EDN Worldwide, and Test and Measurement World. cancom.com products, practical applications, and industry trends. penton.com

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EE Times Group, a UBM company, is the daily source of essential business and technology news, Automation World is written for the entire manufacturing automation team and features innovative analysis, and intelligence for the electronics industry’s decision makers who design, develop, and automation strategies and applications. Monthly issues offer articles about successful commercialize technology. EE Times Group provides these decision makers with comprehensive implementations that maximize return on automation, news, products, and technology. Departments market and technical information, decision tools, peer communities, and professional education. include business, IT, control system skills, safety and security issues, and automation standards. Each month more than 1.1 million global electronics industry professionals engage with EE Times automationworld.com Group’s online and event brands and communities. EE Times Group also serves marketers with targeted, deep, and measurable engagement with this audience, offering innovative, next-generation marketing services around industry-leading editorial content that is customized to meet specific marketing goals. With 40 years of experience in media and marketing inside the electronics industry and a continuing commitment to innovation, EE Times Group powers the global electronics market. eetimes.com

Design World Magazine and the Design World Network serve the design engineer, machine builder, and OEM in several vertical markets including new energy, semiconductor, medical, packaging, and material handling. The Design World Network delivers relevant editorial content, video, podcasts, calculators, widgets, 3D CAD models, an engineering job board, and more. designworldonline.com

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Reaching more than 1.4 million business professionals, Advantage Business Media offers timely Established in 1986, Advanced Imaging and advancedimagingpro.com are the world’s only information in a variety of formats to specialized targets within the communications, design publications devoted entirely to electronic imaging technology. Applications covered include engineering, manufacturing, processing, life science, and surgical market sectors. Our properties industrial/machine vision, medical/scientific imaging, military/aerospace, and security. Advanced include highly focused business technology magazines, websites, e-newsletters, webcasts and Imaging has more than 36,000 magazine subscribers and an opt-in database of more than 33,000. educational tutorials, video, specialized directories, vertical search databases, conferences, ancillary advancedimagingpro.com media vehicles, and associated services. Professionals within our target audience are involved in bioscience technology, chemical processing, communications, drug development, electronics, food processing, laboratory services, medical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical processing, research and development, software development, and surgical industries, and include engineers Evaluation Engineering (EE) is the pioneer publication serving engineers, engineering managers, responsible for design, process, plant, and facility management. and corporate managers responsible for test and total product quality in the design, development, advantagebusinessmedia.com manufacturing, and service of electronic products and systems. Published in print and digital editions, EE presents in-depth technical information for buyers and specifiers of test instruments, PXI test systems, data acquisition products, automated test equipment, communications test instruments, and RF and microwave test equipment. evaluationengineering.com

As the world’s most widely read design engineering magazine, NASA Tech Briefs reports NASA innovations to 700,000 engineers and managers throughout OEM industries. Discover a wealth Electronic Products magazine and electronicproducts.com report on important developments in of new product ideas and engineering solutions in electronics, mechatronics, sensors, test and products and product technology for electronics engineers. For more than 50 years, this leading measurement, manufacturing, and more. techbriefs.com source of information for engineers has offered a multitude of content including new products, technologies, applications, reference designs, product teardowns, energy-efficient technology, technology news, and more. electronicproducts.com

IEEE Spectrum and IEEE Spectrum Online capture the attention of nearly 400,000 technology leaders worldwide and have received 12 editorial awards in 2010. IEEE Spectrum’s full-time editorial staff reports on tech gurus all over the world, covering innovations that shape tomorrow’s Putman Media presents automation industry news for process plants, industrial machine builders, products. spectrum.ieee.org and industrial networking applications with its award-winning brands: Control, Control Design, and Industrial Networking. putmanmedia.com

Robotics Trends is the first integrated media firm serving personal, service, mobile, and industrial robotics through Robotics Trends, which focuses on business and technology of the robotics marketplace; RoboBusiness; and RoboDevelopment in addition to conferences and expositions, the Robotics Summit Virtual Event Series, and research serving the strategic consulting needs of emerging technologies companies. ehpub.com

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Photonics Media – the Pulse of the Industry – is Laurin Publishing Company’s international suite Averna is a premier test solution provider for communications and electronics device makers of media with more than 50 years as the industry’s leading publications. In print with Photonics worldwide, helping deliver a better user experience. Averna’s clients use Proligent enterprise Spectra and BioPhotonics magazines, the EuroPhotonics and AsiaPhotonics feature sections, test software, the URT RF test platform, DP-360, and other broadband test solutions to accelerate the Photonics Showcase supplement, and the Photonics Buyers’ Guide. photonics.com product development, achieve superior quality throughout the life cycle, and solve critical supply-chain issues. Averna has multiple centers of expertise worldwide supported by channel sales partners across North America, Europe, and Asia. Incorporated in 1999, Averna is a 2010 Best in Test award winner, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 winner, and has been

Scientific Computing World is Europe’s only publication – print magazine, website, and electronic honored as one of the Deloitte Fast 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America newsletter – covering software, computing, and information technology for science, technology, since 2007. averna.com engineering, and medicine. scientific-computing.com

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Imaging and Machine Vision Europe – in print, website, and electronic newsletter formats – providers, including members of the Intel Embedded Alliance, offers embedded solutions at many covers machine vision and imaging’s role in inspection, quality assurance, process efficiency, integration levels to meet your needs for performance, functionality, and cost. With Intel, you have and safety. imveurope.com a single vendor that offers multiple architectures, product lines, price points, and feature sets to meet a complete range of mainstream requirements. embedded.intel.com

Vision Systems Design is a global media source serving engineers and managers at OEMs, system integrators, and user organizations that design, develop, manufacture, and integrate components As the next-generation OS from Microsoft, Windows 7 opens new development, sales, and services and subsystems for machine-vision and image-processing systems. Vision Systems Design opportunities for your business. Offer your customers a powerful foundation for high-quality provides coverage of the integration of vision technologies in leading-edge industrial, medical, experiences across applications, services, PCs, and devices. Now is the time to learn about scientific, and military/aerospace applications. vision-systems.com Windows 7, use it to run your business, and become a trusted resource for your customers. microsoft.com

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, and networking markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing, and sales operations around the world. freescale.com

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Phase Matrix Inc. designs and manufactures RF/microwave test and measurement instruments, subsystems, and components. Its product offering includes frequency counters; VXI and PXI synthetic instruments including downconverters, upconverters/synthesizers, and local oscillators; instrument-grade, fast-switching synthesizer modules; and narrow/broadband microwave components up to 50 GHz, including VCOs and custom-built assemblies for military instrumentation and telecommunications applications. phasematrix.com

Basler Vision Technologies specializes in digital cameras for a variety of vision applications. More than 20 years of industry expertise is evident in Basler’s extensive application knowledge and broad product offering. Area-scan and line-scan cameras use both CCD and CMOS sensors and IEEE 1394, Camera Link, Gigabit Ethernet, and POE interface technologies. basler.com

Maplesoft is the leading provider of advanced engineering analysis software that applies mathematical principles to solve any engineering problem, no matter the complexity or domain. Their products use unique symbolic computational techniques to produce efficient, high-fidelity model equations and optimized code for fast real-time execution, including HIL applications. maplesoft.com

Mentor Graphics is a world leader in electronic hardware/software design solutions, including accelerating test program development using a collaboration of LabVIEW and virtual prototype technology. mentor.com

Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of programmable platforms. xilinx.com

Digitexx is the pioneer of real-time structural health monitoring. Since 2000, Digitexx has been providing real-time structural health monitoring systems to assist engineers with nondestructive testing and early structural damage detection. digitexx.com

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Software Software Software Test and Test and Test and Energy Military Industrial Software Industrial Community Embedded Robotics RF and Wireless Development Development Development Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Technology and Aerospace Vision Summit Measurements Development Measurements Vision Summit Exchange Design Track Summit Test Summit Track Track Track Track Track Track Summit Summit and Control Track Track and Control Track 10:30–11:30 a.m. Top Five Reasons What’s New in NI Case Studies in State Machine Real-Time Testing Remote Distributed LabVIEW Technologies to Robot Evolution Structural Test Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Teaching Old RF There’s No Engineers Should LabWindows™/CVI NI LabVIEW versus with NI VeriStand Measurements Monitoring with Embedded Bring the Smart by Intelligent System for NI Vision Builder Introduction to Introducing Wireless Sensor Dogs a New Trick: Accounting in Give a Tweet and 2009 and Beyond Parallel State Machine (p66) with NI C Series USB DAQ Tips and Tricks Grid to Life Design Space Vehicles for Automated NI CompactRIO LabVIEW Networks Making the Machine Vision Use Social Media (p61) Programming (p61) Hardware and Wi-Fi (p52) (p36) (p33) (p38) Inspection and LabVIEW (p59) (p56) Transition to PXI (p42) (p24) Performance (p63) (p62) (p42) Real-Time RF Instruments (p57) (p55) (p40)

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Software Software Software Industrial Test and Test and Energy Military Test and Industrial Test and Community Embedded Robotics Robotics RF and Wireless Development Development Development Measurements Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Technology and Aerospace Data Acquisition Measurements Data Acquisition Vision Summit Exchange Design Track Summit Summit Test Summit Track Track Track and Control Track Track Track Summit Summit Track and Control Track Track 1:00–2:00 p.m. Popcorn Tweets: Introduction to Completing Your What’s New in What’s New with Moving Beyond Nondestructive From Prototypes Testing Siemens Biomimetic Rugged Portable Hands-On: Hands On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Adding an FPGA Vision LabVIEW Goes the TDMS Reconfigurable LabVIEW CompactRIO Test System Resonance to Products – Wind Turbine Mobile Robot MILSPEC NI VeriStand Develop Powerful Introduction to Introduction to Target to Your Applications for Viral File Format I/O (RIO) System (p61) (p56) Efficiency to Inspection Building Control Systems Design with NI PXI/PXI Express (pX65 Motion Control LabVIEW for Data Acquisition RF Instrument Roll-to-Roll (p24) (p59) with Custom Test Data (p65) Commercial (p37) Single-Board RIO Chassis Applications with Embedded (p63) (p40) Processes Hardware: Management Instruments with (p34) (1:00-1:30) (p38) CompactRIO Design with the (p43) A Case Study (p64) LabVIEW (p55) LabVIEW Using Multisim (p51) Autonomous Robotics (p58) Ground Vehicles Starter Kit for Space (p33) Applications (p34) (1:30-2:00)

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Embedded Software Software Test and Test and Test and Software Energy Military Test and Software Test and Community Robotics Embedded RF and Wireless Design Development Development Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Development Technology and Aerospace Data Acquisition Development Data Acquisition Vision Summit Exchange Summit Design Track Test Summit Track Track Track Track Track Track Track Summit Summit Track Track Track 2:15–3:15 p.m. LabVIEW Machines That LabVIEW Best Practices Using PXI and NI X Series Introduction to Using the Implementing Control of Developing a Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Reducing Test Techniques for Features from the Work: Advanced Graphical Scripting for Software LabVIEW for Multifunction PXI and C Interface for Wide-Area Power Complex Large-Scale Build an Using Web Data Structural Test Costs in a Vision-Based Idea Exchange Motion Control (p59) Development Characterizing DAQ Devices PXI Express LabVIEW FPGA Quality Monitoring Mechanical Microphone Array Automated Test Services with Management (p66) High-Mix Robot Guidance (p24) (p52) in LabVIEW Power (p63) (p64) (p61) with LabVIEW Systems for Aircraft Jet System from Your Embedded and Reporting Manufacturing (p43) (p57) Management ICs (p37) (p34) (2:15-2:45) Plume Noise Scratch System to Publish (p58) Environment (p67) Source (p62) (2:15-4:15) Data Remotely (p40) Prototyping for Characterization (p53) Life Science (p38) Automation (p34) (2:45-3:15)

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Test and Software Software Industrial Test and Test and Energy Military Software Test and Community Embedded Robotics Embedded RF and Wireless Data Acquisition Development Development Measurements Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Technology and Aerospace Development Data Acquisition Vision Summit Exchange Design Track Summit Design Track Test Summit Track Track Track and Control Track Track Track Summit Summit Track Track 3:30–4:30 p.m. There’s an App DAQ Advanced: LabVIEW Tips and Tricks to An Insider’s View DC Source Testing Audio LabVIEW FPGA Smart Grid Vision Tracking Development of a Hands On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Make a Good Three New for That Real Developers Compiler Under Speed LabVIEW of How Demonstrations: Device Quality: for Defense and Component for Automated Sonic Boom CompactRIO and How to Build a NI FlexRIO and RF Measurement Camera (p24) Use Property the Hood: Development NI SoftMotion Do You Have the Why Buy Space Applications Testing Sewing Measurement LabVIEW FPGA LabVIEW Add-On LabVIEW FPGA Even Better Technologies Nodes Understanding (p61) Uses LabVIEW to Power? Headphones that (p52) (p37) (3:30-4:00) (p34) (3:30-4:00) System at JAXA Intermediate (p58) (3:30-5:30) (p64) (p41) (p43) (p62) the Optimizations Create Open (p62) Cost $300 USD? (p39) (p51) in 2010 Control (p67) Fuel Cell and Dependable (p59) Architectures Energy Storage Control System for (p54) Performance Field Robot Characterization Platforms (p37) (4:00-4:30) (p34) (4:00-4:30)

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Software Software Software Industrial Software Test and Energy Military Test and Industrial Industrial Community Embedded Robotics RF and Wireless Development Development Development Measurements Development Data Acquisition Technology and Aerospace Data Acquisition Measurements Measurements Vision Summit Exchange Design Track Summit Test Summitt Track Track Track and Control Track Track Track Summit Summit Track and Control Track and Control Track 4:45–5:45 p.m. LabVIEW on TV: Optimize Your Test Team-Based LabVIEW UI Best Practices for Reduce Test Time Using Honeywell Using Xilinx IP Wind Turbine LabVIEW for Ground Control Hands-On: Hands On: Hands-On: NI Technology Vision Builder for Confirmed, System and Development and Tips and Tricks Designing Obsolescence Pressure, Load, and Coregen in Prognostics and Every Robot Systems for NI VeriStand CompactRIO Wireless Sensor Enables Automated Plausible, Reduce Test Time Source Code (p60) Scalable Motion and Long-Term and Torque LabVIEW FPGA Health (p34) Launch Vehicles (p65) High-Speed Networks High-Throughput Inspection and or Busted? Using LabVIEW Control Control Maintenance with Sensors with (p53) Management Based on Acquistion (p56) RADAR LabVIEW (p24) and NI TestStand (p61) Applications on NI the ATML Data Acquisition (p37) (4:45-5:15) LabVIEW (p54) Component (p43) (p65) Real-Time Standard Systems (p39) Testing Hardware (p60) (p67) (p41) Platforms (p54)

5:00–7:30 p.m. NI Community Block Diagram Party (Exhibition Hall) (p8) NI Community Block Diagram Party (Exhibition Hall) (p8)

The mark LabWindows is used under a license from Microsoft Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. NIWeek 2010 SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY

3 11A 11B 12A 12B 13A/B 14 15 16A 16B 17A 17B 18A 18B 18C 18D 19A 19B

7:45–8:30 a.m. Breakfast Breakfast

8:30–10:00 a.m. NIWeek Keynotes (Ballroom G) (p4) NIWeek Keynotes (Ballroom G) (p4)

10:00–10:30 a.m. Break Break

Test and Software Software Industrial Test and Test and Software Energy Military Test and Community Robotics Embedded Robotics RF and Wireless Business Forum Data Acquisition Development Development Measurements Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Development Technology and Aerospace Vision Summit Data Acquisition Vision Summit Exchange Summit Design Track Summit Test Summit Track and Control Track Track Track Track Summit Summit Track 10:30–11:30 a.m. Track Track The Evolution and The Blogosphere’s Using Simulation NI LabVIEW Best Practices for Using Introducing Hack Your Car A Closer Look at Smart Grid The Future of Hardware Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: The Changing Similarity Change of Best as a Test Design Patterns Delivering NI CompactRIO SC Express: with NI CAN 32-Bit versus Renewable Ground Robotic Abstraction Layers NI Vision Builder Reusing FPGA IP Introduction to NI FlexRIO and Face of GNSS and Measurements Alcatel-Lucent (p25) Development and SMoReS Distributed Data and LabVIEW for High-Performance Interfaces and 64-Bit with Energy Technology Systems Using LabVIEW for Automated in Embedded LabVIEW for LabVIEW FPGA Satellite-Based for Space Time Wireless Test Platform (p59) to Remote Clients Online Signal Sensor LabVIEW LabVIEW 2010 (p37) (10:30-11:00) (p33) Object-Oriented Inspection Systems Embedded (p64) Navigation and 3D Visual Engineering (p67) (p54) Processing and Measurements (p63) and Windows 7 Programming (p42) (p52) Design with the (p41) Quality (p22) Data Recording (p64) (p57) Electrical (p39) LabVIEW Assessment and (p56) Substation Robotics Inspection Monitoring and Starter Kit (p42) Control (p33) (p37) (1:00-11:30)

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch Lunch

Software Software Industrial Test and Test and Energy Military Test and Industrial Software Test and Community Embedded Robotics RF and Wireless Business Forum Development Development Measurements Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Technology and Aerospace Data Acquisition Measurements Development Data Acquisition Vision Summit Exchange Design Track Summit Test Summit Track and Control Track Track Track Summit Summit Track and Control Track Track Track 1:00–2:00 p.m. Track Understanding LabVIEW Add-On New Features What’s New in Connect Real-Time Model-Based Custom Design Powering a Rapid Manipulator Creating a Hands-On: Hands On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Testing FM Vision at Mach 1 the True Cost of the Year: and Best LabVIEW LabVIEW to Structural Health Simulation and 101 with Smarter Planet Development Multichannel, Build an Introduction to Software Introduction to Transmitters (p43) of Test Product Gallery Practices for (p61) Any PLC Monitoring: The Prototyping of an CompactRIO and (p36) with CompactRIO Phase-Coherent, Automated Test CompactRIO and Engineering Data Acquisition Better, Faster, (p22) (p25) Network Data (p55) New Paradigm in Electric Vehicle NI Single-Board and LabVIEW RF Record and System from LabVIEW (p61) (p63) and Cheaper Transfer Infrastructure (p64) RIO (p34) (1:00-1:30) Playback SIGINT Scratch Real-Time Using the (p60) Management (p51) Platform (p62) (1:00-3:00) (p55) NI PXI Platform (p65) Teaching a Walking (p39) (p41) Robot to See (p35) (1:30-2:00)

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Software Software Software Industrial Test and Test and Energy Military Software Test and Community Embedded Robotics Embedded RF and Wireless Business Forum Development Development Development Measurements Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Technology and Aerospace Development Data Acquisition Vision Summit Exchange Design Track Summit Design Track Test Summit Track and Control Track Track Track Summit Summit Track Track 2:15–3:15 p.m. Track Track The Business We Are the Raw Data to Development and Practical Practical Achieve Hardware Creating Implementing Enernet: Internet First Responder STORMS Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Introduction to A Peek Inside of Obsolescence Champions Results: Deployment of Applications of Application of a Independence High-Speed Data Mission-Critical Lessons for Robots Biometric RADAR CompactRIO and Introducing Acquire and Cognitive Radio New NI Vision Planning (p25) Proper Data Large LabVIEW Web Services in Reference with an Record and Distributed Solving the (p35) (2:15-2:45) (p39) LabVIEW FPGA LabVIEW Process Sound and Interference Algorithms (p22) Management Applications LabVIEW Architecture for Object-Oriented Playback Systems Systems (p52) Energy Crisis Intermediate (p59) and Vibration Alignment (p43) Techniques (p60) (p60) Local Machine Hardware (p62) (p36) (2:45-3:15) Autonomous (p51) Signals (p41) (p60) Control Abstraction Layer Robotic Mail (p62) (p55) (p62) Courier (p35) (2:45-3:15)

3:15–3:30 p.m. Break Break

Test and Software Software Test and Test and Test and Military Test and Industrial Software Industrial Community Embedded Robotics RF and Wireless Business Forum Data Acquisition Development Development Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Data Acquisition and Aerospace Data Acquisition Measurements Development Measurements Vision Summit Exchange Design Track Summit Test Summit Track Track Track Track Summit Track and Control Track Track and Control Track 3:30–4:30 p.m. Track Track Building Strategic Even a Caveman NASA Hearing Best Practices for Developing NI FlexRIO and Smart Phones for Strain Gage Introduction to RIO Robots Save NI Requirements Hands-On: Hands On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Under the Hood Using NI Vision Supplier Can Do It: Boost Aid Analysis and Memory Web-Based User LabVIEW FPGA Smarter Data Measurement LabVIEW FPGA Lives Gateway – NI VeriStand Develop Powerful Software Wireless Sensor of an LTE for Offline In-Mill Relationships Your Car’s Audio Test Management and Interfaces for for Test Acquisition Techniques (p52) (p35) (3:30-4:00) A Power User’s (p65) Motion Control Engineering Networks MIMO-OFDM Testing (p22) Horsepower with Architectures LabVIEW Code Measurement Applications (p66) (p66) Session Applications with (p61) (p56) Downlink (p43) Hardware Based with NI Optimization and Automation (p65) Using Synthetic (p39) CompactRIO Prototype on LabVIEW (p64) (p57) Systems Neural Models to (p55) (p41) (p25) (p58) Augment Traditional Control Systems (p35) (4:00-4:30)

3:30–5:45 p.m. Industry Experts Panel: Clean Energy Technology – The Ultimate Deployment Challenge (Ballroom D) (p28) Industry Experts Panel: Clean Energy Technology – The Ultimate Deployment Challenge (Ballroom D) (p28)

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Test and Software Software Test and Test and Test and Military Industrial Software Test and Community Embedded Robotics RF and Wireless Business Forum Data Acquisition Development Development Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Data Acquisition and Aerospace Vision Summit Measurements Development Data Acquisition Vision Summit Exchange Design Track Summit Test Summit Track Track Track Track Summit and Control Track Track Track 4:45–5:45 p.m. Track Track Building Long-Term Switching Combine LabVIEW GUI Introduction to Synchronizing Evaluating the What’s New in Critical Robotics Using NI Products Hands-On: Hands On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Testing MIMO When to Use Consensus for Investment in Configurations Real-Time Design 2.0 Optical Sensing Scalable Sensor Latest Intel LabVIEW FPGA and Autonomous to Develop Level C NI Vision Builder CompactRIO Introducing Structural Test in 802.11n FPGAs in Imaging Change in Your Test: Building for Large Test Processing and (p59) (p64) Measurement Microarchitecture (p53) Technologies Panel and D Full-Flight for Automated High-Speed LabVIEW (p66) (p41) (p43) Organization Common-Core Systems a UI on Systems for Test, Discussion Simulators Inspection Acquistion (p59) (p22) Test Platforms (p66) One Controller (p66) Measurement, (p35) (p39) (p42) (p54) (p25) with Virtualization and Control (p58) Applications (p62)

5:45–7:00 p.m. Break Break

7:00–10:30 p.m. Annual NIWeek Conference Party (The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum) (p8) Annual NIWeek Conference Party (The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum) (p8) NIWeek 2010 SCHEDULE THURSDAY

11A 11B 12A 12B 13A 13B 14 15 16A 16B 17A 17B 18A 18B 18C 18D 19A 19B

7:45–8:30 a.m. Breakfast Breakfast

8:30–10:00 a.m. NIWeek Keynotes (Ballroom G) (p4) NIWeek Keynotes (Ballroom G) (p4)

10:00–10:30 a.m. Break Break

Software Industrial Software Software Industrial Test and Test and Test and Software Test and Test and Software Embedded Embedded Embedded Embedded Embedded Development Measurements Development Development Measurements Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Vision Summit Development Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Development Design Track Design Track Design Track Design Track Design Track Track and Control Track Track Track and Control Track Track Track Track Track Track Track Track 10:30–11:30 a.m. Testing Your Choosing the LabVIEW Classes: Building Wireless HIL and Top Calm Your Jitters There’s an App Testing Architect Cycle Accurate Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Hands-On: Wireless Demystifying Customer Right Technology The State of Commercial Condition Real-Time Testing Considerations with LabVIEW for That Next-Generation Real-Time Simulation of NI Vision Builder Deploying and Data Management Acquire and Monitoring of the Cloud .m Files for for Your Wireless the Art Software and Monitoring of Techniques for Optical Real-Time (p53) Multimedia Systems with LabVIEW FPGA for Automated Replicating Your and Reporting Process Sound Real-World (p58) Determinism with Application (p59) Add-Ons through Rotating (p63) Sensing (p51) Devices Confidence: Designs Using Inspection Embedded (p58) and Vibration Structures the NI LabVIEW (p54) Licensing and Equipment in (p64) (p67) Best Practices ModelSim (p42) System Signals (p67) MathScript Activation Research Reactors for LabVIEW (p51) (p51) (p62) RT Module Technology (p56) Real-Time (p61) (p57) Development (p51)

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch Lunch

Test and Software Software Test and Test and Industrial Software Industrial Test and Industrial Software Embedded Data Acquisition Development Development Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Measurements Development Measurements Data Acquisition Measurements Development Design Track Track Track Track Track Track and Control Track Track and Control Track Track and Control Track Track 1:00–2:00 p.m. NI TestStand LabVIEW OOP Adjustable What’s New Five RF Understand Simple TCP/IP Saving Time with The Secret of Standard or What’s New with Finding and Operator Interface Design Patterns Bandwidth in Instrument Measurements High-Speed Data Messaging Automated Tuning – Custom: Emulate Web-Enabled Analyzing Development for Large Systems FIR Filters: Control Everyone Acquisition with Beyond LabVIEW Postprocessing Advanced Control and Test Any HMIs and Technical Data in Practice (p59) From Design to (p67) Should Know NI CompactRIO (p52) Using LabVIEW Strategies for Protocol with LabVIEW Files Using (p60) Implementation (p63) (p55) and DIAdem Servo Systems LabVIEW FPGA (p56) LabVIEW and (p57) (p60) (p55) (p66) NI DataFinder (p58)

2:00–2:15 p.m. Break Break

Test and Software Software Industrial Test and Test and Industrial Test and Test and Embedded Embedded Embedded Embedded Data Acquisition Development Development Measurements Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Measurements Data Acquisition Data Acquisition Design Track Design Track Design Track Design Track Track Track Track and Control Track Track Track and Control Track Track Track 2:15–3:15 p.m. Plan for Success Precision Control Beyond the LabVIEW UI Choosing Inside the SC Precision Linear LabVIEW WSN Using LabVIEW Perform Any Test Power The Right Beyond 40 MHz: with Using LabVIEW Basics: LabVIEW Tips and Tricks Reconfigurable Express Modules: Measurements of Under the Hood and the mbed on Any Structure Measurements Development Designing for Automated Test Real-Time and Debugging (p60) I/O (RIO) Analog Designs RF Components (p55) Microcontroller (p65) 101 Process for High Throughput (p65) LabVIEW FPGA Techniques Expansion for and Technologies (p63) for Rapid (p65) LabVIEW FPGA in LabVIEW FPGA (p52) (p57) High-Channel- (p63) Prototyping Success (p51) Count Systems (p53) (p53) (p54)

3:15 p.m. End of NIWeek 2010 End of NIWeek 2010