In a joint announcement Analog Devices Inc. and National Instruments have introduced the NI LabVIEW embedded module for ADI Blackfin processors. It extends the LabVIEW graphical dataflow development environment to directly target high-performance, low-power Blackfin processors for faster embedded system development. With this single graphical development platform, designers without embedded programming experience will be able to overcome the traditional challenges of embedded development and deliver sophisticated applications quickly.

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"Using NI LabVIEW Embedded technology, we have one tool to take the system model to hardware-in-the-loop for testing and prototyping all the way to the chip," said Erik Goethert, a design engineer at Boston Engineering. "This means we spend less time learning the details and syntax of traditional low-level tools and more time improving our designs."

With the LabVIEW embedded module for Blackfin processors, domain experts can develop their applications from algorithm design and prototyping to deployment and test--with a single platform. The graphical software includes more than 140 Blackfin-specific, hand-optimized math, analysis and signal-processing functions; integrated I/O such as audio and video DACs, ADCs and CODECs; and on-chip debugging, as well as easy graphical interconnection via Ethernet. After prototyping, domain experts can deploy custom designs to an extensive range of off-the-shelf NI hardware, as well as custom hardware using components such as the Blackfin processor.