LabVIEW controls CERN particle accelerator

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Engineers at CERN have used a combination of LabVIEW software, the LabVIEW Real-Time Module, the LabVIEW FPGA Module, and NI SoftMotion software with NI R Series reconfigurable I/O hardware for PXI, to develop a motion control system capable of intercepting misguided or unstable particle beams in the World's largest, most powerful particle accelerator - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

To read about this application in detail and to view a short movie, go to sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-10795.

Evaluation software can be downloaded from www.ni.com/labview85/machine.htm.

13 May 2008

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