NI Announces LabVIEW Compatibility Program 

美国国家仪器发布LabVIEW兼容计划

August 7, 2007 -- National Instruments (NI)announced a new program to validate that third-party products are compatible with the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical programming environment.

8月7日消息——美国国家仪器公司(NI)宣布一项新计划,以确证第三方产品可以兼容美国国家仪器公司的LabVIEW图形化编程环境。

Beginning in August, companies can verify their products are compatible with NI LabVIEW using requirements provided by National Instruments. Once companies meet the requirements and their application for the Compatible with LabVIEW Program (Program) is approved by NI, they receive the new Compatible with LabVIEW logo subject to the terms of the Program agreement. NI is establishing the Program to help customers make more informed purchasing decisions and take the guesswork out of selecting new technology.

从八月份开始，这些公司可以利用国家仪器提供的要求核实他们的产品兼容NI的LabVIEW。一旦这些公司符合要求而且他们的“兼容 LabVIEW 计划”申请得到NI的批准，他们将收到“兼容LabVIEW”的新标识语，符合程序协议的条款。NI正在制定方案，以帮助用户作出更明智的采购决策，并免除了选择新技术的猜测工作。

“LabVIEW has evolved into a premier integrated design, control and test platform for desktop, industrial and embedded applications, and the popularity of the platform has grown tremendously,” said Jack Barber, manager of the National Instruments Alliance Partner program. “There are virtually thousands of products claiming to be compatible with LabVIEW and by providing compatibility standards, we can help customers narrow their searches and choose the tools that best meet their needs. Additionally, this program encourages third-party vendors to produce high-quality products and offers them an opportunity to differentiate themselves from the competition.”

国家仪器联盟伙伴计划部经理Jack Barber表示：“LabVIEW已经演化成一种用于桌面、工业和嵌入式应用的首要集成设计、控制和测试平台，而这个平台的普及也大大地增长了。几乎是数以千计的产品声称可以兼容 LabVIEW，而通过提供兼容标准，我们可以帮助客户缩小他们的搜索范围，选择能够最好地满足他们需求的工具。此外，这项计划鼓励第三方的厂商生产高质量产品，并提供他们一个区别于竞争对手的机会。”

To participate in the program, companies can download the Compatible with LabVIEW Guidelines from www.ni.com/labviewtools and compare their products against a checklist of requirements. The guidelines include specifications on documentation, style and function. For example, APIs must use consistent control styles, and virtual instrument libraries must be present on the palettes and organized appropriately. After evaluating their products, companies submit their completed checklists to National Instruments for evaluation. After confirming the requirements have been met and approving the product (which is at National Instruments’ discretion), National Instruments provides the Compatible with LabVIEW logo to the company for placement on its qualifying product and packaging.

参加计划的公司可以从www.ni.com/labviewtools下载“兼容LabVIEW指引”并比较他们对产品的清单要求。指引包括规格文件,方式以及功能。例如，API（应用编程接口）必须使用一致的控制方式，虚拟仪器库必须在调色板上展现，而且组织得当。在对他们的产品评估之后，这些公司向国家仪器递交完整的清单以备评估。经过确认条件符合而且批准产品（由国家仪器公司判断）之后，国家仪器将为申请的公司提供“兼容LabVIEW”的标识语，贴在其符合资格的产品及包装上。

The Compatible with LabVIEW Program is available for domestic and international products with application-specific toolkits, analysis routines or hardware API libraries. Furthermore, National Instruments recognizes the Compatible with LabVIEW products on the LabVIEW Tools Network, providing a single Internet source for LabVIEW users searching for products related to LabVIEW. Customers can start looking for the Compatible with LabVIEW logo on products later this year.

“兼容LabVIEW计划”适用于美国国内和国际的特定应用工具、分析程序或硬件API库产品。此外，国家仪器公司在“LabVIEW 工具网”上承认这些“兼容LabVIEW”产品，为LabVIEW用户对LabVIEW相关的产品搜索提供一个专一的互联网资源。客户可以在今年晚些时候开始看到贴有“兼容LabVIEW”标识语的产品。

About National Instruments
关于国家仪器

National Instruments is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,300 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past eight years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

美国国家仪器公司正在改变工程师和科学家们在测量、自动化和嵌入式应用领域进行设计、建模和配置系统的方式。NI为客户现货供应NI LabVIEW等软件以及模块化的高性价比硬件，而且客户遍布全球超过2万5千家不同的公司，没有一个客户的销售额超过总收入的3％，也没有任何一个行业的销售额超过销售总额的10％ 。NI总部设于美国德克萨斯州的奥斯汀，在将近40个国家中设有分支机构，共拥有4300多名员工。在过去连续八年里，《财富》杂志评选NI为全美最适合工作的100家公司之一。

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