Editing LabVIEW (section)

{{Short description|System-design platform and development environment}}
{{third-party|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox Software
| name                   = LabVIEW
| logo                   = LabVIEW Logo.jpg
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| developer              = [[National Instruments]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1986|df=yes}}
| latest release version = LabVIEW NXG 5.1<br/>LabVIEW 2024 Q3
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2024|07}}
| operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]: [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]], [[Linux]]
| genre                  = [[Data acquisition]], [[instrument control]], [[test automation]], analysis and [[signal processing]], [[Industrial control system|industrial control]], [[embedded system]] design
| license                = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.ni.com/labview}}
| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]]
}}
'''Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench''' ('''LabVIEW''')<ref name=kring2006>{{Cite book|title=LabVIEW for everyone : graphical programming made easy and fun.|last=Jeffrey.|first=Travis|date=2006|publisher=Prentice Hall|others=Kring, Jim.|isbn=0131856723|edition=3rd|location=Upper Saddle River, NJ|oclc=67361308}}</ref>{{rp|3}} is a graphical ''system design and development'' ''platform'' produced and distributed by [[National Instruments]], based on a programming environment that uses a [[visual programming language]]. It is widely used for [[data acquisition]], [[instrument control]], and industrial [[automation]]. It provides tools for designing and deploying complex test and measurement systems.<ref name="schneiderman">{{cite web |last=Schneiderman |first=Rob |date=October 21, 2002 |title=James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky: Turning PCs into Virtual Instruments |url=http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=2860 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110811014341/http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=2860 |archive-date=August 11, 2011 |access-date=2007-03-02 |publisher=Electronics Design}}</ref>

The visual (aka graphical) programming language is called "G" (not to be confused with [[G-code]]). It is a dataflow language originally developed by National Instruments.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/751616|title=Software synthesis from dataflow models for G and LabVIEW|date=November 1998 |volume=2 |pages=1705–1709 vol.2 |doi=10.1109/ACSSC.1998.751616|s2cid=7150314}}</ref> LabVIEW is supported on a variety of [[operating system]]s (OSs), including [[macOS]] and other versions of [[Unix]] and [[Linux]], as well as [[Microsoft Windows]].

The latest versions of LabVIEW are LabVIEW 2024 Q3 (released in July 2024) and LabVIEW NXG 5.1 (released in January 2021).<ref>{{cite web|title=Upgrade LabVIEW|url=https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview/upgrade.html|website=Forums|publisher=National Instruments}}</ref> National Instruments released the free for non-commercial use LabVIEW and LabVIEW NXG Community editions on April 28, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200428005266/en/NI-Releases-Free-Editions-Flagship-Software-LabVIEW|title=NI Releases Free Editions of Flagship Software: LabVIEW|date=2020-04-28|website=www.businesswire.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref>