LabWindows/CVI

LabWindows / CVI (often just CVI, an abbreviation for C for Virtual Instrumentation) is an event-oriented ANSI C programming environment, which was developed by National Instruments. The program was originally released as LabWindows for DOS in 1987, but was then made ​​available for the Windows platform. The current version number of LabWindows / CVI, 2012.

LabWindows uses the same libraries and data acquisition modules such as LabVIEW, the better-known product of National Instruments and is therefore compatible with LabVIEW. While the target group of LabVIEW experts and scientists are more likely to CVI addressed more specifically to software developers who are familiar with text-based programming languages ​​such as Java, C or Python.