Having recently joined the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC), and also a member of the IIC, National Instruments (NI) has this week announced the launch of its latest embedded systems hardware for use in its LabView Reconfigurable I/O (RIO) architecture. The three new boards are powered by NI’s LabView software platform, and integrate Intel chips and Xilinx’s FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays). Aimed at engineers who want greater control over devices in the field, and the ability to reprogram silicon on the fly thanks to the FPGAs, the hardware is designed to enable fast data ingest and processing at the network edge, so that industrial systems are not subject to network-induced latency that can arise from architectures that make heavy use…