National Instruments Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells tools to engineers and scientists worldwide. It offers LabVIEW, a system design software product for measurement and control; and LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA that are strategic modular software add-ons. The company also provides LabWindows/CVI for creating test and control applications; and Measurement Studio for measurement and automation add-on libraries, and additional tools for programmers as alternative programming environments. In addition, it offers a suite of application software products, including NI TestStand for T&M applications in a manufacturing environment; NI VeriStand software for configuring real-time testing applications, including hardware-in-the-loop test systems; NI DIAdem, which provides users configuration-based technical data management, analysis, and report generation tools to interactively mine and analyze data; and NI Multisim. Further, the company offers hardware products and related driver software, such as data acquisition, PXI chassis and controllers, image acquisition, motion control, distributed I/O, modular instruments and embedded control hardware/software, industrial communications interfaces, general purpose interface bus interfaces, and VME extension for instrumentation controllers. Additionally, it provides NI education platform consisting of software, hardware, and courseware for students; software and hardware products for teaching; hardware and software maintenance services; and training classes and self-paced online training for its software and hardware products. The company sells its software and hardware products primarily through a direct sales organization, independent distributors, OEMs, VARs, system integrators, and consultants. National Instruments Corporation was founded in 1976 and is based in Austin, Texas.