NIDays Boston addresses big data, industrial Internet

摘要

National Instruments' NIDays convened in Boston last fall as one of about four dozen stops for the event throughout the year. Dave Wilson, vice president of product marketing, academic, opened the event by saying that NI and its customers have generated 22 exabytes of data over the past three decades. He then described NFs RIO (reconfigurable I/O) architecture, which comprises analog I/O capability to interface with the infinite data of the physical world, an FPGA, a CPU, and data connectivity. The FPGA, he said, is critical to support immediate interaction with the real world. The FPGA, in turn, can feed relevant and important information to the CPU, which can be programmed with Lab VIEW. Following his address, Rahul Gadkari, NI principle regional marketing manager, U.S. East, with the help of colleagues, described several recently introduced NI products that can help tame the explosion of data.