NI invites applications for Green Engineering Grant program by Nov 2012

National Instruments (NI) intends to renew its Green Engineering Grant program in 2012. It also invites applications for grants by November 2012, and grants would be distributed by January 2013. In the last two years, the program has provided assistance to more than 40 companies developing next-generation control and measurement solutions in the renewable energy market.

The program helps small companies and research groups around the world with up to $25,000 USD in software and training for graphical system design tools and techniques. Grants are designed for companies or groups planning to use LabVIEW system design software and reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware to rapidly develop and commercialize their green technologies.

“Thanks to NI hardware and LabVIEW system design software, we were able to use a single integrated development environment for everything from FPGA and real-time targets to user interface and diagnostic PCs,” said Richard Jennings, software engineering manager at Xtreme Power.

He added, “The NI graphical system design approach helped us focus on our application instead of getting bogged down in low-level syntax and implementation details.”