Join us on Wednesday, April 27 at noon Pacific for the Software Defined Instrumentation Hack Chat with Ben Nizette! Imagine, if you will, the perfect electronics lab. Exactly how it looks in your mind ...

Software-based test-system architectures have become increasingly popular over the past several decades. As test applications become more complex, engineers are continuously challenged with the ...

It’s a fair bet that anyone regularly reading Hackaday has a voltmeter within arm’s reach, and there’s a good chance an oscilloscope isn’t far behind. But beyond that, things get a little murky. We’re ...

It's not just consumer products that are dominated by software these days. NI's Richard McDonell explains how PXI-based modular instruments also are defined by the code they run. What is a test ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NIWeek – NI (Nasdaq: NATI), the provider of a software-defined platform that helps accelerate the development and performance of automated test and automated ...

National Instruments founders Dr. James Truchard, Jeff Kodosky, and Bill Nowlin focused their upstart company on connecting test equipment to computers from its inception in 1976. When VisiCalc ...

CHECKING OUT THOUSANDS of instruments and calibrating them prior to installation in new power plants is largely a manual job. Documentation of instrument calibrations is also usually done manually. In ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2004--Energy publisher Gulf Publishing Company announced today the release of InstruCalc(TM) Version 6.0, the industry-standard desktop application for ...

Engineering innovations are a critical cornerstone in the evolution of technology, but ironically there haven’t been as many innovations in engineers’ tooling itself. Now, a startup called Liquid ...

My “Editor’s Note” in the current issue recounts a discussion with technologists from National Instruments on the “Instrumentation 2.0” concept. Here are some additional thoughts, information, and ...