Software speeds test and measurement development

National Instruments has announced Measurement Studio 2009, which can decrease development time for engineers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio .Net 2003.

Measurement Studio 2009 simplifies data acquisition, analysis and visualisation by providing integrated I/O support, native libraries and user interface updates.

The software introduces support for the latest advancements in PC technologies, including increased memory in 64-bit .Net application development and Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems.

Measurement Studio 2009 also provides increased I/O capabilities with integrated support for new NI data acquisition (DAQ) hardware on PC buses such as USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, PCI Express and PXI.

Measurement Studio supports the latest enhancements in PC technologies, such as Windows 7 operating systems, and improves performance of memory-intensive applications with support for 64-bit .Net development and deployment and integration with 64-bit drivers.

Visual Studio developers who have adopted a 64-bit operating system, such as Windows 7, can start using the increased processing power and memory capabilities within Measurement Studio 2009.

The software integrates I/O support for new DAQ hardware from NI, such as NI CompactDAQ, Wi-Fi DAQ and X Series DAQ devices.

Measurement Studio integrates with NI-DAQmx driver software to utilise the capabilities of NI hardware including faster stream-to-disk rates of up to 1.2Gbytes per second, multiple timing engines and an advanced counter/timer functionality.

The new I/O capabilities and provided measurement analysis class libraries also help engineers efficiently obtain measurements from physical sensors.

Measurement Studio 2009 can also simplify the setup of streaming high-speed data to disk for .Net developers using technical data management streaming (TDMS).

With the TDMS file format and NI-DAQmx driver, engineers can stream directly to disk up to 12 times faster than with previous versions of Measurement Studio.

The TDMS integration removes the burden of designing and maintaining custom file formats to achieve sustained data streaming in high-speed measurement applications.

Measurement Studio 2009 provides developers with faster file access and improved compatibility between TDMS applications.

The release also includes incremental user interface improvements to graphically display data.

With a new way to set a configuration property to the waveform and complex graphs, Measurement Studio can automatically generate different colours for each plot, eliminating the need to explicitly assign colours to plots.

The software also features updates to the Network Variable Class Library, which helps engineers perform cross-platform communication among several Windows applications.

This library now provides engineers with the ability to immediately publish an update to network variables and configure descriptions and types for explicitly created network variables.

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