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You can purchase several add-on software toolkits for developing specialized applications in LabVIEW. All the toolkits integrate seamlessly in LabVIEW. In general, when you install a LabVIEW toolkit with your licensed version of LabVIEW, you can find the help for the toolkit under the Toolkits book on the Contents tab of the LabVIEW Help.

The following list describes some of the signal processing and analysis tools; professional development tools to optimize, test, and distribute your VIs; third-party connectivity tools to Microsoft Office for professional reporting, databases to access and store data, and embedded design tools; and control and simulation tools you have to extend the LabVIEW programming environment. Refer to the National Instruments Web site for a complete offering of LabVIEW toolkits.

Signal Processing and Analysis

• Digital Filter Design Toolkit—Extends LabVIEW with functions and interactive design tools to rapidly explore classical designs and to design, model, and implement fixed-point and floating-point digital filters. You can design over 30 filter types—including FIR, IIR, and multirate filters—with well-known and special-purpose design options: Kaiser window, Dolph-Chebyshev, windowed, max flat, narrowband (interpolated FIR), elliptic, Chebyshev, Inverse Chebyshev, Butterworth, Bessel, notch/peak, max flat, comb, halfband multirate, single-stage multirate, n-stage multirate, Nyquist multirate, and root-raised/raised cosine multirate.
• Sound and Vibration Toolkit—Extends LabVIEW functions and indicators to handle audio measurements, fractional-octave analysis, swept sine analysis, sound-level measurements, frequency analysis, frequency response measurements, transient analysis, and several sound and vibration displays, including waterfall displays. Functionality includes scaling, calibration, limit testing, weighting, and distortion and single-tone measurements.
• Modulation Toolkit—Extends the built-in analysis capability of LabVIEW with functions and tools for signal generation, analysis, visualization, and processing of standard and custom digital and analog modulation formats. This toolkit provides quality measurements including EVM and modulation error ratio (MER); handles standard and custom modulation formats (AM, FM, PM, ASK, FSK, MSK, GMSK, PSK, QPSK, PAM, QAM); simulates and measures impairments including DC offset, IQ gain imbalance, and quadrature skew; and offers bit-error rate (BER), phase error, burst timing, and frequency deviation measurements.
• Spectral Measurements Toolkit—Extends LabVIEW with functions for acquiring and analyzing spectral measurements and performing modulation and demodulation on AM, FM, and PM signals. This toolkit includes power spectrum, peak power and frequency, in-band power, adjacent-channel power, and occupied bandwidth, as well as 3D spectrogram capabilities.

You can find more signal processing and analysis toolkits at ni.com/toolkits.

Professional Development

• Execution Trace Toolkit—Provides real-time developers an interactive tool for analyzing and verifying the execution of code they develop with the LabVIEW Real-Time Module. You can interactively analyze and benchmark thread and VI execution; optimize performance by identifying memory allocation, sleep spans, and resource contention; and create execution traces for LabVIEW Real-Time Module applications that you can print for documentation and code reviews.
• Express VI Development Toolkit—Provides tools to help you create interactive Express VIs that simplify the development of test, measurement, and control applications. Express VIs provide an interactive, configuration-based, easy-to-use interface for your end users.
• State Diagram Toolkit—Assists in large scale application development by providing a framework in which you can build state machines in LabVIEW. With the State Diagram Toolkit, you can create a state machine that reflects a complex decision-making algorithm while LabVIEW simultaneously generates the block diagram code necessary to implement the state machine.
• VI Analyzer Toolkit—Pinpoints improvements you can make in the UI design, block diagram code, documentation, and VI properties and settings to optimize performance, usability, and maintainability of your VIs.

You can find more professional development, software engineering, and optimization toolkits at ni.com/toolkits.

Third-Party Connectivity Tools

• Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office—Provides a library of VIs for programmatically creating and editing Microsoft Word and Excel reports from LabVIEW.
• Embedded Test Integration Toolkits for LabVIEW—Links to leading design tools such as Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio, Analog Devices VisualDSP++, iSystem winIDEA, and Windriver emulators and debuggers. These toolkits help you automate the loading and running of embedded code and allow you to communicate bi-directionally with the embedded processor and display the data on the LabVIEW front panel. Toolkits include the Analog Devices Blackfin Test Integration Toolkit for LabVIEW, winIDEA Embedded Test Integration Toolkit for LabVIEW, and NI LabVIEW DSP Test Integration Toolkit for TI DSP.
• Database Connectivity Toolkit—Offers tools with which you can quickly connect to local and remote databases in which you store data and perform common database operations without having to perform structured query language (SQL) programming. This toolkit connects to the most popular databases through Microsoft ADO technology and readily connects to Microsoft Access, SQL Server, and Oracle databases.
• Math Interface Toolkit—Integrates LabVIEW VIs into The MathWorks, Inc. MATLAB® software environment, providing a better means of collaboration for development teams working in both LabVIEW and the MATLAB software. This toolkit converts LabVIEW VIs to native MATLAB MEX functions and allows you to easily distribute LabVIEW applications for native use in the MATLAB analysis environment.

You can find more data management and visualization, embedded system development and deployment, and automated test toolkits at ni.com/toolkits.

Control and Simulation Tools

• PID Control Toolkit—Offers PID and fuzzy logic control functions that you can combine with the math and logic functions already in LabVIEW to graphically develop control algorithms and programs for automated control.

You can find more control design, simulation, and industrial control toolkits at ni.com/toolkits.