National Instruments has released NI VeriStand 2009 – an open, configuration-based software environment to create real-time testing applications such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and controlled environmental tests.
National Instruments said that the new NI VeriStand software allow developers configure a real-time engine capable of supporting third-party I/O interfaces including a variety of data acquisition and field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based I/O interfaces and triggerable data-logging.
The company said that customers’ control algorithms and simulation models required by real-time testing applications also can be imported into NI VeriStand from NI LabVIEW software and other third-party modelling environments.
In addition, NI VeriStand software provides configurable run-time interface that includes a variety of tools to interact with real-time testing applications. The user interface is a run-time-editable workspace, enabling engineers to create and modify their user interfaces without interrupting real-time test system execution.
The company said that the NI VeriStand software assists engineers to develop real-time test systems by providing them with the ability to capture the necessary 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.
Engineers then can add user interface controls and indicators and map them to the system definition resources to interact with their real-time test systems, the company added.
