Test gear goes embedded On GlobalSpec

Software that builds virtual instruments from graphical icons is migrating out of the test lab and into embedded control. Creating a virtual instrument is simply a matter of connecting the blocks. In this example, block functions from National Instruments' LabView libraries perform specific functions for acquiring, analyzing, and presenting a complex waveform. Two different graphs, one for the waveform and the other for the waveform's power spectrum, are displayed to the testing technician on the computer screen. Data-capture hardware for a virtual instrument may take many forms. Here, a National Instruments CompactRIO (for Reconfigurable I/O) provides both analog signal capture and digital control through switched outputs. All functions and function parameters of the CompactRIO are accessible in the virtual instrument software using

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