NI VeriStand 2010 Scales from
High-Performance Multichassis Systems to Low-Cost, Ruggedized
Applications
NI VeriStand 2010 Offers Customizable Software and Ease of Use
for Increased Reuse, Reduced Time to Market
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NEWS RELEASE Aug. 30, 2010 National Instruments today
announced NI VeriStand
2010, which includes enhancements that expand its
capabilities for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and real-time testing
by supporting high-performance, multiple chassis PXI systems and low-cost, ruggedized
options using NI
CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO hardware deployments.
NI VeriStand 2010 also features enhanced connectivity with NI
LabVIEW, making it easier for engineers to reuse
existing software and further customize their NI VeriStand
applications.
We selected NI VeriStand for our Legacy 500 Iron Bird because of
the breadth of functionality the environment provides out of the
box, which significantly reduces our development efforts, said M.
A. Pires, testing device development coordinator for Embraer.
NI VeriStand 2010 adds native support for reflective memory
interfaces to deterministically share data between real-time PXI
systems for high-performance applications such as iron bird
aircraft simulators and electronic systems integration test
systems. More specifically, it can automatically create the
reflective memory routings between PXI systems, reducing the
potential for development errors and helping engineers quickly get
their applications up and running. NI VeriStand 2010 also provides
system-level abstraction and user interface capabilities to make
configuring such systems more efficient.
While NI VeriStand provides many of the features necessary for our
application, the ability to add functionality using LabVIEW and
other software environments helps us customize our simulator to
exactly meet our future application needs, said Guilherme
Seelander, software integration senior engineer for Embraer.
Additionally, optimizations of the real-time engine have increased
execution performance, making it possible to run NI VeriStand 2010
applications on most CompactRIO or NI Single-Board RIO systems for
low-cost or rugged applications such as desktop simulators and test
cell applications. The wide range of conditioned I/O interfaces for
CompactRIO combined with the flexibility of the NI VeriStand
development environment offers commercial off-the-shelf solutions
for these applications with the ability to quickly adapt to custom
interface needs.
Readers can visit www.ni.com/veristand for more
information on NI VeriStand 2010.
Additional Resources
www.ni.com/veristand/gettingstarted.htm
About NI VeriStand
NI VeriStand 2010 is a ready-to-use software environment for
configuring real-time testing applications including
hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) tests. Engineers can use NI VeriStand
out of the box to configure stimulus generation, data logging,
calculated channels and event alarming. It can import control
algorithm and simulation models from a variety of modeling
environments including the NI LabVIEW graphical development
environment and The MathWorks Simulink® software
environment. Engineers can use NI VeriStand to monitor and interact
with these tasks using a run-time editable user interface. While no
programming knowledge is required to use NI VeriStand, engineers
can customize and extend the software using a variety of software
environments including LabVIEW, NI
TestStand, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, ANSI C/C++ and
Python.
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