AUSTIN, Texas, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced the LabVIEW FPGA IP Builder add-on, which uses leading Xilinx Vivado^TM High-Level Synthesis technology to simplify high-performance field-programmable gate array (FPGA) algorithm design. This new LabVIEW add-on enhances productivity by reducing the need for manual optimization of high-performance algorithms. Instead, users specify functional behavior along with design constraints and the software automatically generates a hardware implementation to meet requirements.

The new add-on tightly integrates with LabVIEW and the LabVIEW DSP Design Module, a LabVIEW module that helps researchers and system designers in the RF and telecommunications space quickly create communication links and multirate digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms on FPGAs.

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"Our vision for the LabVIEW platform is to empower domain experts to represent their algorithms using natural programming paradigms and provide a seamless path for deploying to high-performance hardware," said David Fuller, vice president of applications and embedded software for NI. "High-level synthesis technology is central to this vision – it empowers system designers to spend less time optimizing their FPGA algorithms and more time innovating."

Product Features

• Increased FPGA design abstraction for enhanced productivity
• Improved algorithm performance and resource utilization
• Separation of code and design constraints facilitates IP reuse
• Seamless deployment to NI FPGA-based devices and integration with I/O

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Readers can learn more by viewing these additional resources: 

• LabVIEW FPGA IP Builder
• LabVIEW FPGA IP Builder White Paper
• LabVIEW DSP Design Module

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