Electronics

Consumers expect products that have better quality, more flexibility, and new features at a lower price. For example, digital cameras can record short movies, digital camcorders can take pictures, and MP3 players can record voices. To keep up with today's consumer electronics needs, design and test engineers need flexible, high-performance test systems. National Instruments offers a software-based measurement strategy, using modular instruments that make it easy to quickly adapt to the latest audio, video, and wireless requirements. The result is an integrated test platform that can keep pace with new innovations.

Industry Resources

What Is PXI?
PXI is a rugged, PC-based platform for measurement and automation systems. Explore the architecture of PXI hardware and software, and learn how to configure your own PXI system. Learn More »

New to Modular Instruments?
Take advantage of greater flexibility, accuracy, throughput, and synchronization with NI modular instruments. Learn More »

What Is NI TestStand?
View this six-minute online demo if you are new to NI TestStand and want to see how to speed your automated test development and simplify maintenance of your test system using test management software. Learn More »

Strategies for Lowering the Cost of Manufacturing Test
Over many years of working with electronics manufacturers, NI has built a complete modular hardware and software platform for functional test. Learn More »

LabVIEW 8 Delivers Distributed Intelligence for Test, Control, and Design
Virtual instrumentation technology is evolving to provide a comprehensive set of tools for embedded system design, prototyping, and deployment that help design teams tackle an increasingly complex job and get products to market more quickly and reliably. Learn More »

Virtual Instrumentation for Next-Generation Test
Be first to market! Virtual instrumentation provides intuitive software tools for rapid test development, fast, precise modular I/O based on innovative commercial technologies, and a PC-based platform with integrated synchronization for high accuracy and throughput. Learn More »

A New Era of Electronic Measurement Automation (EMA)
Apply automated, software-defined measurements in the modeling, verification, and characterization phases of electronic design. Learn More »

LabVIEW 8 Delivers Distributed Intelligence for Test, Control, and Design
Distributed system development brings to light an entirely new set of programming challenges that traditional tools do not properly address. National Instruments LabVIEW 8 introduces distributed intelligence technology to address these challenges. Learn More »

LabVIEW 8 Delivers Distributed Intelligence for Test, Control, and Design
During this 45-minute Webcast On-Demand, technical experts from Tektronix and National Instruments discuss the application of cutting-edge EMA tools and strategies aimed at closing the rising gap between design and measurement productivity. Learn More »

LabVIEW FPGA in Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Applications
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is achieving a highly realistic simulation of equipment in an operational virtual environment. Learn More »

Characterize Batteries and Power Consumption Using the NI PXI-4071 7½-digit Digital Multimeter
Virtual instrumentation gives the user the flexibility to tailor the battery test and power consumption test approach to the exact need. Learn More »

Customer Solutions

Lexmark Improves Measurement Accuracy of Ink Cartridge Test
Challenge: Improving the measurement accuracy and digital I/O rate of an inkjet cartridge electrical test.
Solution: Upgrading an existing PC-based test instrumentation to use the matched 100 MHz mixed signal suite including the Ni PXI-5122 high-resolution digitizer and NI PXI-6552 digital waveform generator/analyzer.

Microsoft Uses NI LabVIEW and PXI Modular Instruments to Develop Production Test System for Xbox 360 Controllers
Challenge: Developing a comprehensive, low-cost production test system for the Microsoft Xbox 360 wired and wireless controllers.
Solution: Using a flexible, automated test system based on Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft SQL Server, National Instruments LabVIEW, and NI PXI modular instruments to test the functional performance of the Xbox 360 controller, both wired and wireless versions.

Sanmina-SCI Exceeds Throughput Goals with PXI Tester and Multithreaded Software
Challenge: Developing a compact and high-speed functional test station that performs parallel calibration on eight medical devices.
Solution: Using National Instruments LabWindows/CVI, NI TestStand, and high-performance PXI modular instruments to develop an automated and modular production tester with database and statistical process control capability for medical device calibration.

Askey Automates Testing of Set-Top-Box with NI Modular Instrumentation
Challenge: Creating an automated, low-cost, and scalable full-functional test system for Askey Set-Top-Box.
Solution: Using National Instruments LabVIEW 7 Express with the NI PCI-5911 100 MHz flexible-resolution digitizer for audio and video parametric testing of a cable set-top-box and for integrating the test code into NI TestStand for complete automated and modular production testing with database and statistical process control analysis capabilities."

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Digitizers
High-speed digitizers, data acquisition, and oscilloscopes with 8- to 24-bit resolution, up to 250 MS/s sampling rate, and up to 150 MHz bandwidth for PCI, PCI Express, PXI, and USB

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Function and arbitrary waveform generators with 12- and 16-bit resolution at up to 400 MS/s sample rates for PCI and PXI

High-Speed Digital I/O
Digital waveform generator/analyzers with 200 MHz maximum clock rates (400 Mb/s maximum data rates) and flexible single-ended and differential voltage levels for PCI, PXI, and PCMCIA

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RF Measurement Devices
Vector-based signal acquisition, generation, and analysis up to 2.7 GHz with 20 MHz real-time bandwidth

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24-bit precision for sound and vibration acquisition and generation

Switches
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PXI Chassis and Controllers
Open, multivendor standard for measurement and automation that delivers more than 10 times the performance of older architectures