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Automotive

Found at nearly every automotive OEM and Tier 1 supplier, National Instruments tools save time and money across all stages of the automotive engineering process by providing a common platform for control, design, and test. With industry-leading I/O, flexible off-the-shelf hardware, and the powerful LabVIEW development environment, you can create user-defined solutions for applications ranging from embedded design and functional test to in-vehicle data-logging and dynamometer control. With over 300 global alliance members, you can also obtain turnkey solutions built on the proven NI platform.

Rapid Control Prototyping
 

  • Prototype ECU control strategies on real-time controllers
  • Quickly connect control models to I/O
  • Reduce low-level implementation overhead

Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation

  • Real-time model-based simulation
  • Build high-performance, flexible COTS systems
  • Custom hardware sensor simulation with FPGAs

Test Cell Measurement and Control

  • Integrate measurements with industrial test-cell control
  • Dynamometer real-time control and measurements
  • Synchronize with on-board vehicle data

Automotive End of Line Test
 

  • Build universal high-speed adaptive test systems
  • Integrate with automotive communication standards
  • Connect to specialty instrumentation and load systems

In-vehicle Test & Logging
 

  • Build compact, rugged systems for in-vehicle measurements
  • Measure signals from thermocouples to accelerometers
  • Correlate data with FlexRay, CAN and LIN buses.

Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH) test

  • Measure and improve vehicle ride comfort
  • Perform predictive maintenance accelerated testing
  • Quantify and improve quality of in-vehicle acoustic systems
 

The NI Automotive Platform, from concept to crash test.

See how graphical system design and a common hardware platform enable applications across the entire vehicle design cycle.

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Automotive customer solutions

See how NI tools are being used by NI customers in nearly every corner of the automotive industry.

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Automotive Events Around the World

Attend a seminar designed for automotive industry professionals to learn about NI tools first-hand.

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