LabVIEW (short for Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is a system design platform and improvement environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. It is frequently used for instrument control, data acquisition, and industrial automation on a range of platforms including Microsoft Windows, a variety of versions of UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X. The latest version of LabVIEW is “LabVIEW 2012”, released in August 2012; this platform is originally released for the Apple Macintosh on 1986. The TDM file type is mainly employed with 'DIAdem', a program by National Instruments Corporation intended for measurements and engineering in areas such as evaluating, processing, and generating reports for measurement data. When TDM files are loaded into appropriate software, the original data together with any added descriptive information is immediately available to the user. This enables report generation, data analysis, and easier interpretation of results. This file extension is utilized by LabView, for the interaction of hardware devices with data being stored in ASCII format.