NI VeriStand Licensing Options
After you install NI VeriStand, you must use the NI Activation Wizard to activate the software.
National Instruments offers a variety of NI VeriStand licenses for the different ways you can use NI VeriStand in development and deployment applications.
Use the following descriptions only as a reference for the NI VeriStand licensing options. Refer to ni.com/activate for more information about activating NI VeriStand licenses. Refer to ni.com/veristand to purchase an NI VeriStand license. Contact a local National Instruments representative for more information or for questions about specific licensing needs.
- NI VeriStand Evaluation Package
- NI VeriStand Full Development License
- NI VeriStand PC Development License
- NI VeriStand Deployment License
The following table shows the features available with the Full Development, PC Development, and Deployment Licenses. The table does not show the Evaluation Package because this package includes the same features as the Full Development License.
| Component | Feature | Full Development |
PC Development |
Deployment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| System Explorer window | ||||
| View system definition files as read-only | – | – | Yes | |
| Create new system definition files | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Configure supported NI hardware devices | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Configure custom devices | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Configure models | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Add user channels | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Add calculated channels | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Map channels | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Add alarms | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Add procedures | Yes | Yes | – | |
| Deploy system definition file to single real-time target | Yes | – | Yes | |
| Workspace window | ||||
| Create new workspace files | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Add standard and custom Tools menu utilities | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Add standard and custom controls and indicators | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Manage users | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Reconfigure alarms | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Stimulus Profile Editor | ||||
| Use custom header VIs | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Manage model parameters | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Create stimulus profiles | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Run stimulus profiles | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Log data | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Models | ||||
| Run compiled models (model DLLs) | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Run your models (.mdl) developed using The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink® application software* | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
*You must have The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink® application software installed in order to run your uncompiled model (.mdl).