National Instruments Corporation

Bob Preis

Darshan K Shah

Jacob Kornerup

Aljosa Vrancic

Biren Shah

A system and method for viewing timing of one or more loops in a graphical program. A graphical program having one or more loops may be created. In one embodiment the one or more loops may include one or more timed loops, i.e., the loops may be configured to execute according to particular execution periods. The graphical program may be executed, and timing analysis data regarding timing of the one or more loops during execution of the graphical program may be stored. A graphical user interface (GUI) for viewing timing of the one or more loops during execution of the graphical program may be displayed. In various embodiments the GUI may display any of various kinds of information regarding timing of the one or more loops, and any kind of visual presentation may be used in displaying the information.

Visualization tool for viewing timing information for a graphical program

A system and method for automatically improving performance of a first graphical program that performs one or more repetitive operations, e.g., in a loop. The first graphical program may be programmatically analyzed and may be programmatically modified based on the analysis. Programmatically modifying the first graphical program may include programmatically modifying the one or more repetitive operations or the loop performed by the first graphical program, where the modification results in improved performance. In one embodiment, the performance of the first graphical program may be improved by increasing deterministic behavior. For example, deterministic behavior may be especially important for a real-time or time critical application. In one embodiment, determinism may be increased by removing functionality from the first graphical program which causes time latency problems. In one embodiment, one or more additional graphical programs may be programmatically generated to perform the functionality previously performed by the first graphical program, where the one or more additional graphical programs execute simultaneously with the first graphical program.

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