Real-Time for Test and Validation

Overview

Real-time systems provide a higher level of reliability because they are dedicated to desired measurement and control tasks and, therefore, avoid general-purpose OS fragilities. The National Instruments LabVIEW Real-Time Module delivers the reliability of a dedicated real-time system without requiring you to know the low-level details of real-time development. Instead, use the familiar NI LabVIEW graphical development environment to build your application and then download it to a dedicated real-time target for applications such as:

Integrated Test and Control
Create deterministic control applications with microsecond software jitter and high-accuracy measurements with NI modular instruments.

Reliable Extended Duration Testing
Develop reliable systems for applications such as life-cycle testing, fatigue testing, and expensive tests that destroy prototypes or use costly resources.

Autonomous Test Systems
Use off-the-shelf hardware platforms to create stand-alone test and data-logging systems that run reliably in the field.

Recommended Software

LabVIEW Real-Time Module

Extend the LabVIEW development environment with the LabVIEW Real-Time Module to download applications to a dedicated real-time target, ensuring the most reliable execution platform for your test and measurement applications.

LabVIEW FPGA Module

The LabVIEW FPGA Module extends the LabVIEW development environment so you can download applications to an FPGA chip on NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware.

LabVIEW Execution Trace Toolkit

The LabVIEW Execution Trace Toolkit, an add-on for the LabVIEW 7.1 Real-Time Module, offers precise debugging and benchmarking of applications running on LabVIEW Real-Time targets.

Recommended Hardware

NI PXI Real-Time Controllers

Combine LabVIEW Real-Time with PXI to create high-accuracy measurement systems and high-speed control. Select from a variety of off-the-shelf PXI/CompactPCI I/O modules to integrate analog, digital, counter/timer, machine vision, and motion control signals.

NI Data Acquisition

Connect to a variety of signals using measurement-ready hardware for analog, digital, counter/timer, and dynamic signals. Reduce development time using NI data acquisition software, which is optimized for LabVIEW Real-Time applications.

NI Reconfigurable I/O

Define custom I/O hardware using LabVIEW FPGA for rapid response systems including high-speed I/O processing, immediate output generation, and onboard decision making.

NI Modular Instruments

Take advantage of high-performance digitizers, function and arbitrary waveform generators, high-speed digital I/O, digital multimeters, and RF measurement hardware for PCI and PXI.