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Best Practices for Designing Automated Test Systems

For more than two decades, National Instruments has assisted industry-leading companies with their test engineering strategies and has collected best practices and techniques for building more flexible and efficient automated test systems. Many companies use software-defined instrumentation for their next-generation automated test systems because of its flexibility, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

As a result, many of today’s engineers actively seek to understand software-defined instrumentation and learn best practices for integrating it into their next-generation test systems. National Instruments has developed a rich collection of technical content to assist you with all elements of your test system design.

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Building an Automated Test System?

Watch this collection of short webcasts to learn the core principles of software-defined instrumentation for today's automated test systems. Understand how you can use this approach to increase throughput and flexibility, while reducing your cost of test.

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Read these technical guides for the detailed steps required to design and deploy a software-defined test system from start to finish. Best practice topics range from software, instrument, and rack selection to maintenance and deployment strategies.

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