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Hybrid Test Systems and Instrument Control
Integrating LXI, USB, PXI Express, and Other Standards into a Hybrid Test System
By taking advantage of hybrid test systems which combine components from multiple platforms, you can easily integrate new buses into an existing test system to help balance design considerations, take advantage of various technologies available, and extend the life of your system.
Hybrid Systems – Integrating Your Multivendor, Multiplatform Test Equipment
This guide is collection of white papers designed to help you develop test systems that lower your cost, increase your test throughput, and can scale with future requirements. This white paper describes the how to integrating your multivendor, multiplatform test equipment into a hybrid system.
Connecting Multiple Platforms in a Hybrid Test System
This guide addresses one of the most common questions when designing a hybrid test system: How to physically connect the components of the system to maximize flexibility and performance.
Instrument Control Fundamentals: Main Page
The National Instruments Instrument Control Fundamentals Series presents technical content through theory, real-world examples, and interactive audiovisual tutorials. This series, organized into four general categories, is designed for a broad range of audiences, from experts who want to review a specific topic to new users who need easy-to-understand documentation for their projects. Select one of the categories below to begin mastering instrument control.
Instrument Control Technologies for Any Bus, Any Language
No matter what your test & measurement application needs are, you need to rely on instrument control technologies that enable you to connect to and control your instruments through any hardware bus and any software programming language. You should be able to individually optimize your choices of hardware bus without having an adverse effect on your choice of software programming language and vice versa. This white paper presents the various hardware and software options available to you, helping you choose the most suitable software and hardware for your application.
Interchangeable Virtual Instrumentation (IVI)
Using Measurement & Automation Explorer to Configure Your IVI System
The purpose of this document is to describe how to configure IVI systems in MAX. This document is intended for IVI class driver users who want to take advantage of all the benefits of IVI by using MAX.
Getting Started Using National Instruments IVI with LabVIEW or LabWindows/CVI
This document describes how to install, configure, and use the IVI™ drivers and tools available from National Instruments™. All of these drivers and tools are based on the IVI Foundation’s currently released and approved IVI specifications.
Switches/Switch Executive
RF Switching Considerations
This document discusses the main points to consider when selecting an RF switch.
How to Connect Signals to the NI PXI-2593 RF Switch
Describes the cables you will need to connect signals to the PXI-2529 full matrix switch.
Advanced Signal Routing with the NI PXI-2593 and NI SCXI-1193 RF Switches
This document describes how to use the 2593 in a variety of custom configurations.
TestStand
Benefits of Parallel Testing
As a test engineer, you may have explored ways to enhance test system performance in the past though parallel testing. However, the latest off-the-shelf test management software tools simplify parallel test system implementation. These tools increase test throughput and drive down test system costs.
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