This lets engineers use LabView to develop FPGA code that purportedly executes as efficiently as hand-coded VHDL.

Using LabVIEW software, analog designers can implement digital power control without writing VHDL code as illustrated with a PXI power-supply design.

AWR Design Environment can now incorporate LabVIEW signal processing capabilities including multirate digital signal processing (DSP), wireless standards, modulation, fixed-point math and more.

According to NI, the move will help engineers to better use measurements in their design flow by executing LabVIEW code directly from the AWR design environment. "This integration between NI LabVIEW ...