Building on nearly 10 years of investment in multithreading technology, LabVIEW 8.5 significantly reduces the programming complexity commonly associated with sophisticated control systems based on multicore and FPGA architectures. 6, 2007 � National Instruments today announced LabVIEW 8.5, the latest version of the graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system development. NI releases LabVIEW 8.5 for Machine ControlĪug.