Multicore organisation improves interoperability

National Instruments is collaborating with technology companies including Intel, Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River to improve the interoperability among operating systems.

National Instruments has joined the Multicore Association, a global nonprofit organisation focused on developing standards that help shorten time to market for products that involve multicore implementations.

As a member of the association, National Instruments is collaborating with technology companies including Intel, Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River to improve the interoperability among operating systems, hardware and software development tools so engineers and scientists can benefit from the performance improvements offered by multicore technology.

"National Instruments has a commanding and diverse knowledge of multicore technology from a software, hardware and operating system perspective", said Markus Levy, President of the Multicore Association.

"Their experience and leadership in developing products that can take advantage of this technology makes National Instruments a valuable contributor to the Multicore Association's efforts to define the standards for multicore applications".

With more than 10 years of investment in multithreading technology, National Instruments' LabView simplifies multicore and FPGA-based application development with its parallel dataflow language.

LabView also delivers symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) with the LabView Real-Time environment, making it possible for users to improve the performance of multicore 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, the Max Planck Institute for nuclear fusion research, Eaton for transmission testing and Virginia Tech University and Torc Technologies for developing autonomous vehicle vision intelligence.

Additionally, National Instruments incorporates multicore processors into several of its hardware offerings including modular instruments available on PXI, PXI Express, PCI, PCI Express and PCMCIA platforms for increased performance.

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