LabVIEW

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LabVIEW

Developer(s)	National Instruments
Initial release	1986; 38 years ago (1986)
Stable release	LabVIEW NXG 5.1 LabVIEW 2024 Q3 / July 2024; 4 months ago (2024-07)
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.ni.com/labview

Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW)^[1]: 3 is a graphical system design and development platform produced and distributed by National Instruments, based on a programming environment that uses a visual programming language. It is widely used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation. It provides tools for designing and deploying complex test and measurement systems.

The visual (aka graphical) programming language is called "G" (not to be confused with G-code). It is a dataflow language originally developed by National Instruments.^[2] LabVIEW is supported 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 2024 Q3 (released in July 2024) and LabVIEW NXG 5.1 (released in January 2021).^[3] National Instruments released the free for non-commercial use LabVIEW and LabVIEW NXG Community editions on April 28, 2020.^[4]