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And the new version of Labview— has Labview finally grown up?

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And the 20th anniversary of Labview brings the 20th Anniversary edition: Labview 8.20.
National Instruments LabVIEW 8.20new mathscript feature in Labview 8.20
National Instruments LabVIEW 8.20, the 20th anniversary edition of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform for test, control, and embedded system development, includes the following new features:
• Open connectivity with The MathWorks, Inc. MATLAB® software
• Improved algorithm execution speeds for simple PID and advanced control systems
• A new NI Modulation Toolkit that gives engineers the ability to develop models to simulate communications systems and evaluate parameter and design decisions
• The LabVIEW FPGA Wizard that you can use to create custom data acquisition devices
NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT
Also announced today was the NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT. With this software, LabVIEW users can create and download VIs to operate LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, the next generation of the popular LEGO robotic system released last week. Third-party software and hardware developers also can use the toolkit to create native blocks for MINDSTORMS NXT software, which is based on LabVIEW.