SAN JOSE, Calif. — James Truchard thinks he may have one of the keys to the multicore era. The chief executive of National Instruments believes the company's flagship LabView environment offers many ...

For more on this topic see Using pipelining in multicore LabView and Using data parallelism in multicore LabView. Until recently, advances in computing hardware have provided significant increases in ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

I looked at LabView more than a decade ago, and was very impressed, but I put it aside as test and measurement (T&M) was not at the top of my list of things to do. In the meantime, LabView has become ...