LabVIEW (short for Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is a platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. The graphical language is named "G". Originally released for the Apple Macintosh in 1986, LabVIEW is commonly used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation on a variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows, various flavors of UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X. The latest version of LabVIEW is version LabVIEW 2011. Visit National Instruments at www.ni.com.
The code files have the extension “.vi”, which is an abbreviation for “Virtual Instrument”. LabVIEW offers lots of additional Add-Ons and Toolkits.