Talk:Virtual instrumentation

i,sannusingh wants to see some examples of virtual instrumentation. i found it some examples in internet but they were not in brief to satisfy me. Sannusingh (talk) 11:10, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

INTRODUCTION
A virtual instrumentation system is computer software that a user would employ to develop a computerized test and measurement system for controlling from a computer desktop an external measurement hardware device and for displaying test or measurement data collected by the external device on instrument-like panels on a computer screen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.17.39.38 (talk) 10:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

List of Software
It would be nice to see a list of available software besides Labview. Especially any free projects. Many other kinds of sw/hw categories have these lists.