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James Joseph Truchard
Title of talk :
LabVIEW Graphical System Design for SenSIP Applications
Abstract
Today, system architectures for sensors, signal
processing, communications and image processing (SenSIP) applications
consist of multicore desktop computers integrated with a variety of
embedded networked devices, each containing a set of sensors,
micro-controllers, DSPs and FPGAs. Developing real-time SenSIP
applications with traditional sequential programming software
development tools is a costly and time consuming process because they do
not convey the inherent parallel nature of these systems. LabVIEW
Graphical System Design is an inherently parallel, multicore system
development platform specifically developed to enable domain experts to
quickly design, prototype and deploy large scale complex SenSIP
applications and systems while significantly reducing development costs.
This presentation will discuss LabVIEW graphical programming features
that leverage parallel, multicore and distributed architectures to
quickly and easily acquire data from sensors, develop SenSIP algorithms
and present the results interactively.
Short Bio
Dr. James
Joseph Truchard (born June 25, 1943 in Austin
County, Texas) is the co-founder and current
president and CEO of National
Instruments, a company producing automated test
equipment and virtual instrumentation software.
Truchard is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of
Engineering Sciences.
Truchard
started a a faculty member at the University of
Texas at Austin. In 1976 he and his associates
founded National Instruments and began designing
an interface board. In 1980, the company
reached $300,000 in sales, Truchard was able to
leave his job at UT to concentrate on his new
company full-time. In 1986, in conjunction
with Kodosky, Truchard played a pivotal role in
the development of the LabVIEW graphical
development software, which allows scientists to
quickly build solutions for their measurement
and automation needs. The graphical programming
interface that LabVIEW provided revolutionized
the way engineers and scientists worked.
After the
development of LabVIEW, in 1987 Truchard received
one of the first Texas High Technology Entrepreneur
awards. Twelve years later he was awarded a Texas
High Technology Master Entrepreneur of the Year
honor. He was named one of the nation's 50 Best CEOs
in three consecutive years by Worth Magazine. In
2002, Truchard was inducted into the Electronic
Design Engineering Hall of Fame, and the following
year he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of
Engineering Sciences. He has also been named a
University of Texas Distinguished Engineering
Graduate, and in 2007 Truchard was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering.
