National Instruments VeriStand 2009 for real-time testing

National Instruments has released VeriStand 2009, an open, configuration-based software creating real-time testing applications such as hardware-in-the-loop and controlled environmental tests.

All the common functionalities of a real-time test system are implemented and optimised inside in a ready-to-use format, making it possible for real-time test system developers to complete their test application development more efficiently.

The package helps developers configure a multicore-ready, real-time engine capable of supporting third-party I/O interfaces including a variety of data acquisition and FPGA-based I/O interfaces as well as triggerable data-logging and stimulus-generation tasks.

Users’ control algorithms and simulation models often required by real-time testing applications can also be imported from LabVIEW and many other third-party modelling softwares including Simulink and ITI SimulationX.

VeriStand also provides a configurable run-time interface that includes a variety of tools to interact with real-time testing.