Graphical system design software includes real-time multicore support.(Leading Off)

National Instruments announced LabVIEW 8.5, the latest version of the graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system development. This version combines the familiar graphical programming environment with commercial multicore hardware to achieve performance gains. Additionally, it introduces the LabVIEW Statechart Module for higher-level designs to run on targets including FPGAs, real-time systems, PDAs, touch panels and a variety of microprocessors. The LabVIEW Statechart Module is an add-on that gives engineers an alternative to designing systems with a high-level diagram based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard. Statecharts are commonly used to design state machines that model the behavior of real-time and embedded systems to depict event occurrences and responses for designing digital communication protocols, machine controllers and system-protection applications. …

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