National Instruments Data Acquisition, Signal Conditioning and PXI Test Hardware
National Instruments was founded in 1976 by James Truchard, Jeff Kodosky and Bill Nowlin, who started the company in Truchard's garage. It grew into a maker of data acquisition and test hardware headquartered in Austin, Texas, and released LabVIEW in 1986. NI developed SCXI (Signal Conditioning Extensions for Instrumentation) to expand the signal processing capabilities of the PC. Emerson completed its acquisition of the company in October 2023.
NI built its name on PC-based measurement: data acquisition hardware, signal conditioning, modular instruments in the PXI format, and the LabVIEW software that ties them together. Labs and test benches often keep older NI systems running for years, so modules, terminal blocks and cables for earlier platforms stay in demand.
Browse Data Acquisition (DAQ) and Drives & Motion Control. See also Data Translation and Acromag.
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