National Instruments recently joined the ZigBee Alliance, an association promoting the growth of a global open standard for wireless control of devices at the Participant level. By joining the ZigBee Alliance. NI will have early access to specifications and input into requirements documents to keep pace with technology and integrate new versions of the standard into NI products to quickly bring them to market. As a ZigBee Alliance member, NI makes it easier for customers to design and test ZigBee products using NI products.

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"The National Instruments PXI RF platform and the Modulation Toolkit for NI LabVIEW are already used to design and test ZigBee devices, along with many other RF standards, in a single platform," said Joseph E. Kovacs, RF communications marketing manager for NI. "National Instruments Alliance Partner SeaSolve Software Inc. has developed ZigBee compliance test software built on this open platform. As a ZigBee Alliance member at the Participant level, NI now can also play an active role in the ZigBee standard while creating products for our customers who design and test ZigBee-based products. The knowledge we can gain from active participation in the alliance helps us continue to enhance the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical development environment and the PXI platform to meet engineers' wireless and RF needs."