Bangalore, 28 February, 2008: National Instruments has announced that NI LabVIEW, its flagship software, has won the prestigious EFY Readers Choice Award 2008 for the Best EDA Tool in the Design & Simulation Software Category, for the second time. Mr Jayaram Pillai, Managing Director for India, Russia & Arabia, NI, received the award which recognizes the growing popularity and high quality and efficiency of the LabVIEW graphical programming environment in India, at the Fifth Annual EFY Awards ceremony held in New Delhi on 15 February 2008. The event was presided by Salman Khurshid, former minister of state of external affairs in Government of India, and head of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee.
NI LabVIEW emerged the winner from amongst other competing software such as Matlab, Mentor Graphics, Synopsis and OrCAD. “Just over 20 years ago, we set out on a quest to do for test and measurement what the spreadsheet had done for financial analysis,” said Mr Jayaram Pillai. “The result was LabVIEW -- a graphical programming environment that has stood the test of time for test and measurement applications and gone on to become a graphical system design tool for designing and prototyping complex systems for deployment in electronics & industrial applications.”
Over the last 20 years NI LabVIEW has revolutionized the development of scalable test, measurement and control applications. It is used in a wide variety of applications and serves a diverse set of industries including automotive, aerospace, electronics, communications, manufacturing, and more. Its ease of use is evident from the breadth of its usage - from programming of a LEGO MINDSTORMS by a 10 year old to programming the biggest physics experiment in the world conducted by CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
NI LabVIEW is a critical element in NI’s efforts to improve the quality of engineering education in India. NI pioneers Experiential Education - the innovative teaching approach that enables applying theoretical concepts to real-world engineering problems, to better equip engineers for the Industry. Laboratory courses and hands-on learning with NI LabVIEW and NI hardware helps students understand the fundamentals thoroughly the ‘Experiential Education way’ and become better engineers. Over 200 Virtual Instrumentation labs using LabVIEW have been set up in engineering colleges across India including IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani, VIT, NIT Surathkal, PSG Tech, College of Engineering Pune, Punjab Engineering College, among others.
The fast growing adoption of NI LabVIEW by the Indian academia and industry has created a pool of employment opportunities and a complete ecosystem including a rapidly increasing community of users, system integrators and training programs to expand the knowledge base across verticals in India. With over 500 user groups dedicated to LabVIEW around the globe, there’s a lot of sharing of ideas, applications, projects, tips and tricks, and even intellectual properties out there for LabVIEW enthusiasts. You can find out more about NI LabVIEW at ni.com/labview
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