Ultrasonic Test System Resources

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Ultrasonic test covers a broad range of applications from medical ultrasonic imaging to detecting delaminations in laminated flooring as it runs off of the production line. National Instruments offers a set of general purpose test tools, including hardware and software, that can easily be assembled to create ultrasonic test systems that fit these broad needs. Because these test tools are PC-based, they offer a flexible, modular architecture to create exactly the test system that your application requires.

Technical Resources

Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Imaging and Flaw Detection
PC-Based Ultrasonic Test System Basics

FREE Ultrasonic Starter-Kit

Download - LabVIEW Ultrasonic Starter-Kit

Customer Solutions

Testing of Ultrasound Electronic Hardware

Typical System Components

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Application Software

• NI LabVIEW - graphical environment for creating flexible measurement and control applications
• NI LabWindows/CVI - Measurement and Control tools in an ANSI C programming environment
• NI Measurement Studio - Measurement and Control tools for Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio 6.0
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Digitzer

• NI High-Speed Digitizers - Up to 200 MS/s, 14-bit resolution, 512 MB memory, 2 inputs
• NI S Series DAQ - Up to 10 MS/s, 16-bit resolution, 64 MB memory, 8 inputs
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Motion Control

• NI Motion Control - servo and stepper motion control devices on many platforms
• NI SoftMotion - Create your custom motion controller using LabVIEW Real-time and LabVIEW FPGA
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Switching

• NI RF multiplexing switches - for applications that utilize one pulser/receiver or digitizer for multiple sensors
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Ultrasonic Transducer

• Third-party product
• More info...

Pulser/Receiver

• Third-party product
• LabVIEW pulser/receiver instrument drivers
• More info...

When building a PC-based system, there are several system architectures to choose from. The PC-based architecture that offers the performance and price of a PC and the high-performance features, such as integrated timing and triggering, for measurement and control is PXI. The PXI platform offers a single platform in which small- to large-scale ultrasonic test systems are built.

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I don't think the PXI picture is big enough...
- Mar 28, 2006

Is it posible to communicate?
In reading your article, I came with the idea that people can actually communicate with this ultrasound waves intead of using the regular cell phones. Much like the new and improved personal IDs, but imprinted somehow in DNA.
- silviaorejas10@yahoo.com - Apr 12, 2005