NI LabVIEW 2010 Optimizes Compiler for Faster Code Execution
National Instruments today announced LabVIEW
2010, the latest version of the graphical programming environment for design, test, measurement and control
applications. LabVIEW 2010 delivers time savings with new features such as off-the-shelf compiler technologies
that execute code an average of 20 percent faster and a comprehensive marketplace for evaluating and purchasing
add-on toolkits for easily integrating custom functionality into the platform.
For field-programmable gate array (FPGA) users, LabVIEW 2010 delivers a new IP Integration Node that makes it possible to integrate any third-party FPGA IP into LabVIEW applications and is compatible with the Xilinx CORE Generator.
National Instruments also implemented more than a dozen new features suggested by lead users through the LabVIEW Idea Exchange, an online feedback forum that marks a significant new level of collaboration between NI R&D and
customers.
Key to the productivity delivered by LabVIEW is the compiler, which abstracts tasks such as memory allocation
and thread management. The compiler hierarchy has evolved over the lifetime of LabVIEW to become smarter
and more optimized. With LabVIEW 2010, the compiler data flow intermediate representation has been further
optimized, and Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM), an open source compiler infrastructure, has been added to
the software’s compiler flow to accelerate code execution.
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