LabWindows/CVI (CVI is short for C for

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) is an

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C programming environment for test and measurement developed by

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. The program was originally released as LabWindows for

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in 1987, but was soon revisioned (and renamed) for the

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platform. The current version of LabWindows/CVI (commonly referred to as CVI) is 2020. LabWindows/CVI uses the same libraries and data-acquisition modules as the better known National Instrument product

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and is thus highly compatible with it. LabWindows/CVI is targeted more at domain experts and scientists, and CVI more towards software engineers that are more comfortable with text-based linear languages such as C.

Release history

Starting with LabWindows/CVI 8.0, major versions are released around the first week of August, to coincide with the annual National Instruments conference NI Week, and followed by a bug-fix release the following February. In 2009, National Instruments started to name the releases after the year in which they are released. The bugfix is called a Service Pack (for instance, the ''2009 Service Pack 1'' release was published in February 2010).LabWindows™/CVI™ Release Information
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