National Instruments Updates VeriStand

National Instruments today announced NI VeriStand 2012, the latest version of its configuration-based software environment with an open software interface for developing real-time testing applications. Engineers can use the new version to perform high-speed data acquisition and logging and to find data faster during postprocessing with additional data logging flexibility.

"This release of NI VeriStand is the next step in our investment to provide a real-time testing platform that reduces risk and cost across a spectrum of applications ranging from embedded software validation to mechanical test systems," said Mike Santori, NI business and technology fellow. "As the importance of software continues to grow in today's products and systems, we continue to add new features to NI VeriStand to help engineers meet strict time-to-market requirements despite increasing test challenges."

Product features include real-time model execution from a variety of modeling environments; open, extensible architecture to create custom code modules or incorporate custom user interfaces;built-in test automation using the Stimulus Profile Editor; and integration with NI hardware I/O library, including FPGAs, embedded networks, machine vision, RF and a range of multifunction data acquisition modules including instrument-grade I/O.

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