From testing cars in automotive companies to controlling production and quality in manufacturing plants, the must need for engineers and scientists is to have a flexible cost-effective solutions for ...

Virtual instruments, in which software determines the measurement functions performed by test-dedicated hardware modules, have become a common reality today. Relying heavily on the capability of FPGAs ...

Walk into any test bay today, and there's a good chance you'll encounter racks of individual instruments, all communicating via GPIB (general-purpose interface-bus) ports under the control of a ...

Software that builds virtual instruments from graphical icons is migrating out of the test lab and into embedded control. A virtual instrument (VI) at its simplest consists of a circuit board that ...