Date: 18/08/2009

Open-configuration software environment for creating real-time testing applications

NI has made available a new NI VeriStand 2009, open configuration-based software environment for creating real-time testing applications such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and controlled environmental tests.

The common functionalities of a real-time test system are implemented and optimized inside NI VeriStand in a ready-to-use format, used for test application development and configure a multicore-ready, real-time engine supports third-party I/O interfaces with a variety of data acquisition and field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based I/O interfaces as well as triggerable data-logging and stimulus-generation tasks.

"The open, configuration-based development approach offered by NI VeriStand provides engineers with the best of both worlds - the development efficiency and the flexibility - to adapt to any application requirement," said Mike Santori, National Instruments business and technology fellow.

NI VeriStand develops real-time test systems, by quickly capturing the essential hardware I/O, simulation model and other real-time task settings using an interactive system explorer window. These settings are saved in a system definition that is deployed to a real-time execution target such as a PXI system, and adds user interface controls and indicators and map to the system definition resources to interact with real-time test systems.

"The open architecture of NI VeriStand allowed our engineers to add support for the third-party hardware interfaces required by our customer," said Darryn LaZar, vice-president of sales and marketing at Wineman Technology, Inc. "Also, having support for LabVIEW FPGA-defined I/O interfaces enabled us to quickly design custom, reconfigurable hardware interfaces for our real-time test system."

For more details visit www.ni.com/veristand