National Instruments

NI accelerates productivity, innovation, and discovery through an open, software-defined platform. This approach helps you develop and increase the performance of automated test and automated measurement systems.

National Instruments is a global leader in automated test and automated measurement systems. NI’s modular hardware platforms and system design software – such as LabVIEW – help engineers do more, innovate faster, and easily integrate new technologies.

Accelerate Your Engineering

For more than 40 years, NI has developed high-performance automated test and automated measurement systems to help you solve your engineering challenges now and into the future. The open, software-defined platform uses modular hardware and an expansive ecosystem to help you turn powerful possibilities into real solutions.

NI Platform

NI accelerates engineering success by providing you with an open, software-centric platform that takes advantage of modular hardware and an expansive ecosystem.

NI Ecosystem

The NI ecosystem helps you build innovative systems more efficiently by providing services and support, software add-ons, and solution partners around the globe.

NI Products

The NI ecosystem helps you build innovative systems more efficiently by providing services and support, software add-ons, and solution partners around the globe.

The Software Is the Key

NI combines core software functionality, such as integrated data analysis, extensive hardware integration, and highly productive development semantics, with highly specialized capabilities for target applications, such as LTE IP, asynchronous communications design, and automated test sequence management, and a commitment to your success through services and training to help you design and test the world around you faster, at a lower cost, and with higher quality.

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Flexible, Modular Hardware

NI products range from simple DAQ devices to more complex embedded control systems and cutting-edge wireless products. Regardless of your task, we have tools to meet your needs.

PXI

PXI systems provide high-performance modular instruments and other I/O modules that feature specialized synchronization and key software features for test and measurement applications from device validation to automated production test.

CompactRIO

CompactRIO systems provide high-performance processing capabilities, sensor-specific conditioned I/O, and a closely integrated software toolchain that make them ideal for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), monitoring, and control applications.

CompactDAQ

CompactDAQ systems provide a customizable solution for engineers to perform electrical and physical measurements either at their benchtop or in a distributed architecture.

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The NI Community is part of the vibrant NI Ecosystem. This is your place to network, ask questions, and collaborate on code with users all over the world.

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Acedemic Solutions

NI Elvis

The NI Engineering Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS) Engineering Lab Workstation provides a project-based learning experience using online measurements and practical, embedded design. Teach Students How to Innovate Engineering students must see the...

Controls and Mechatronics

Prepare students for multidisciplinary problems in automotive, aerospace, and Internet of Things applications with a project-based approach for controls, sensors, actuators, and mechatronics systems.

Wireless Communications

Bring experiential learning to communications by providing visibility of real-world signals to help students understand abstract theory while preparing them for research and emerging trends like 5G. By introducing hands-on communications engineering earlier to...

Measurements and Instrumentation

Through an understanding of measurements, students can visualize and analyze the performance of engineering projects and systems. Build a foundation for improved student understanding with an educational approach where students can easily acquire and automate...

Circuits & Electronics

Analog, digital, and power electronics theory is foundational to engineering curriculum. Build improved understanding and projects with an approach that goes from theory to simulation to experimentation. A project-based learning approach challenges students to think...

Multisim for Education

Multisim™ for Education is circuits teaching application software for analog, digital, and power electronics courses and laboratories. Visualize circuits and reinforce theory with simulated instruments, advanced analyses, and thousands of interactive...