LabVIEW
Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW): 3 is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language developed by National Instruments.
| Developer(s) | National Instruments |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1986 |
| Stable release | LabVIEW NXG 5.1 LabVIEW 2023 Q3 / July 2023 |
| Written in | C, C++, C# |
| Operating system | Cross-platform: Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Type | Data acquisition, instrument control, test automation, analysis and signal processing, industrial control, embedded system design |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
The graphical language is named "G"; not to be confused with G-code. The G dataflow language was originally developed by LabVIEW. LabVIEW is commonly used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation on a variety of operating systems (OSs), including macOS and other versions of Unix and Linux, as well as Microsoft Windows.
The latest versions of LabVIEW are LabVIEW 2023 Q1 (released in April 2023) and LabVIEW NXG 5.1 (released in January 2021). NI released the free for non-commercial use LabVIEW and LabVIEW NXG Community editions on April 28, 2020.