NI VeriStand 2010 Scales from High-Performance Multichassis Systems to Low-Cost, Ruggedized Applications

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced NI VeriStand 2010, which includes enhancements that expand its capabilities for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and real-time testing by supporting high-performance, multiple chassis PXI systems and low-cost, ruggedized options using NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO hardware deployments. NI VeriStand 2010 also features enhanced connectivity with NI LabVIEW, making it easier for engineers to reuse existing software and further customize their NI VeriStand applications.

"We selected NI VeriStand for our Legacy 500 Iron Bird because of the breadth of functionality the environment provides out of the box, which significantly reduces our development efforts," said M. A. Pires, testing device development coordinator for Embraer.

NI VeriStand 2010 adds native support for reflective memory interfaces to deterministically share data between real-time PXI systems for high-performance applications such as iron bird aircraft simulators and electronic systems integration test systems. More specifically, it can automatically create the reflective memory routings between PXI systems, reducing the potential for development errors and helping engineers quickly get their applications up and running. NI VeriStand 2010 also provides system-level abstraction and user interface capabilities to make configuring such systems more efficient.

"While NI VeriStand provides many of the features necessary for our application, the ability to add functionality using LabVIEW and other software environments helps us customize our simulator to exactly meet our future application needs," said Guilherme Seelander, software integration senior engineer for Embraer.

Additionally, optimizations of the real-time engine have increased execution performance, making it possible to run NI VeriStand 2010 applications on most CompactRIO or NI Single-Board RIO systems for low-cost or rugged applications such as desktop simulators and test cell applications. The wide range of conditioned I/O interfaces for CompactRIO combined with the flexibility of the NI VeriStand development environment offers commercial off-the-shelf solutions for these applications with the ability to quickly adapt to custom interface needs.

Readers can visit www.ni.com/veristand for more information on NI VeriStand 2010.

Additional Resources

www.ni.com/veristand/gettingstarted.htm

About NI VeriStand

NI VeriStand 2010 is a ready-to-use software environment for configuring real-time testing applications including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) tests. Engineers can use NI VeriStand out of the box to configure stimulus generation, data logging, calculated channels and event alarming. It can import control algorithm and simulation models from a variety of modeling environments including the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment and The MathWorks Simulink® software environment. Engineers can use NI VeriStand to monitor and interact with these tasks using a run-time editable user interface. While no programming knowledge is required to use NI VeriStand, engineers can customize and extend the software using a variety of software environments including LabVIEW, NI TestStand, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, ANSI C/C++ and Python.

About National Instruments

National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 5,000 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 11 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers can obtain investment information from the company's investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, e-mailing [email protected] or visiting www.ni.com/nati.

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SOURCE National Instruments

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