National Instruments Introduces 15 Embedded I/O Modules for Board-Level Hardware

New Embedded NI C Series Modules Add Functionality Such As Power Quality,
Strain and Communications

AUSTIN, Texas, March 30, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Instruments
(Nasdaq: NATI) today announced a new suite of I/O modules for expanding the
measurement communication capabilities of NI Single-Board RIO embedded control
and data acquisition devices. Combining an embedded real-time processor, a
reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and onboard analog and
digital I/O on a single printed circuit board (PCB), NI Single-Board RIO
devices are used for applications that require flexibility, high performance
and reliability in a small form factor. Engineers and scientists can plug the
15 new embedded C Series modules into NI Single-Board RIO devices to add
capabilities such as high-voltage power monitoring, high-resolution analog
input, strain and communications to their embedded applications.

"NI Single-Board RIO helps lower development time and costs by giving
engineers and scientists all the components required for a reliable,
high-performance embedded system on a single printed circuit board," said John
Hanks, vice president of product marketing for data acquisition and industrial
control at National Instruments. "By combining NI Single-Board RIO with the
wide breadth of new I/O offerings, engineers and scientists easily can expand
their custom embedded systems into applications such as power quality
monitoring, structure health monitoring and embedded networking."

With the new embedded C Series modules, engineers and scientists easily can
add measurement quality I/O to their applications by plugging any combination
of the new modules directly into the three I/O expansion ports on NI
Single-Board RIO devices. The 15 modules include a three-channel, 300 V analog
input, 16-channel analog output module; four-channel, 24-bit bridge/strain
module; and four-channel, 24-bit universal module.

NI Single-Board RIO is one of several NI FPGA-based deployment platforms that
have the NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) architecture, which is composed of a
real-time processor, FPGA and I/O modules. Because NI Single-Board RIO shares
this architecture with the NI CompactRIO embedded control and data acquisition
system, many engineers and scientists design and prototype their applications
on CompactRIO and then deploy their systems to the lower-cost CompactRIO
integrated system or NI Single-Board RIO devices. All the NI RIO technology
platforms can be programmed easily using the NI LabVIEW graphical system
design platform, so no recoding is required when transitioning from prototype
to deployment. By using hardware with the same RIO architecture and a single
software platform throughout the design, prototype and deployment phases,
engineers and scientists can accelerate their development processes and
increase system reliability.

Readers can visit www.ni.com/singleboard to learn more about the NI
Single-Board RIO devices and the new embedded C Series modules.

About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) 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 5,000 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the
past 10 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to
work for in America. Readers can obtain investment information from the
company's investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, e-mailing
nati@ni.com or visiting www.ni.com/nati.

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trade names of their respective companies.

Editor Contact: Hilary Marchbanks, (512) 683-5937
Reader Contact: Ernest Martinez, (800) 258-7022

SOURCE National Instruments

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1-800-258-7022, both of National Instruments