NI signs to Multicore Association
08 February 2008
National Instruments has joined The Multicore Association, focused on developing standards for multicore implementations.
As a member, National Instruments is collaborating with companies such as Intel, Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River to improve the interoperability among operating systems, hardware and software development tools so engineers can benefit from the performance improvements offered by multi-core technology.
The Multicore Association provides a neutral forum for vendors who work with and/or proliferate multi-core-related products, including processors, infrastructure, devices, software and applications. Currently, there are three working groups: Communications API (CAPI), Debug API and Hypervisor API for the support of virtual machine environments. Other members include ARC International, Codeplay, Enea, eSOL, Imperas, Mentor Graphics, MIPS Technologies, National Instruments, NEC Electronics America, Nokia Siemens Networks, PolyCore Software, QNX Texas Instruments, Tilera and the University of York.
The test software company is well-placed to work with other members, with experience of supporting and using multicore technology through products such as NI LabVIEW graphical development software. For over a decade, LabVIEW has simplified multi-core and FPGA-based application development with its intuitive parallel dataflow language. The software delivers symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) with the LabVIEW Real-Time environment, for users to gain performance from multi-core processors without sacrificing determinism.
Customers using LabVIEW graphical programming to take advantage of multicore technology include the NASA Ames Research Center for wind tunnel control, Max Planck Institute for nuclear fusion research, Eaton Corporation for transmission testing and Virginia Tech University and Torc Technologies for developing autonomous vehicle vision intelligence. Additionally, National Instruments incorporates multi-core processors into several of its hardware offerings including modular instruments available on PXI, PXI Express, PCI, PCI Express and PCMCIA platforms for increased performance.
“The change to multicore programming is as revolutionary as the transition to object-oriented programming was two decades ago, and LabVIEW is ideally suited for this new challenge,” said Dr. James Truchard, National Instruments president, CEO and co-founder.
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