The future of Graphical System Design throughout System Life Cycle

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28 May 2009

Peter ZogasSVP Marketing, Sales, and SupportNational Instruments



Engineering Grand Challenges

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Digital Radio & TelemetryHigh DensityData Storage &Imagery

Databusses

GPS Navigation

Nav/Comms

Satellite Link

Multifunction

Display

UMS

Field ServiceTools

System Diagnostics& documentation

Mil/Aero Test Challenges



Empowering Users Through Software

LEGO Mindstorms NXT“the smartest, coolest

toy of the year”

CERN Large HadronCollider

“the most powerful instrument on earth”



Trends in WirelessTest

Ubiquitouswireless

connectivity

Proliferation of wireless

standards

Decreasing costof production test

Trends inSemiconductor

ATE

Test costs notscaling with chip

costs

“Protocol Aware” ATE

Trends inMilitary/Aerospace

Move to software-defined test

systems

Investment insignal intelligence



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Our Vision for Instrumentation Systems

“To do for test and measurementwhat the spreadsheet did for financial analysis.”

Virtual Instrumentation“The software is the instrument .”



“A single synthetic instrument canreplace numerous single function instrumentsthereby reducing the logistics footprint and solving obsolescence problems.”

– Report to Congress on the activities of the DoD Office of Technology Transition,February 2002

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Digitizers Investment Direction

• Time-Domain8-bit, multi-GS/s, multi-GHz16-bit, 150MS/s

• Lower Cost8/12-bit, 100 MS/s USBPCIe digitizer



NEW 6.6 GHz RF Instruments

PXIe-5663 VSA• Single stage heterodyne

downconverter• 10 MHz to 6.6 GHz

• 50 MHz Instantaneous BW (3 dB)• -112 dBc phase noise (10 kHz) at 1

GHz

PXIe-5673 VSG• Direct (homodyne) RF upconversion• 85 MHz to 6.6 GHz• >100 MHz Instantaneous BW

• -112 dBc phase noise (10 kHz) at 1 GHz



PXI 26.5GHz Vector Signal AnalyzerPhase Matrix/BAE/NI Cooperation

• Funded by the DOD to prove the concepts of SI in PXI• PXI Down Converter for use in a SI Context over the 100KHz-26.5 GHz

frequency range• <1ms LO tuning speed• Front end pre-select• PXIe digitizers for high-speed streaming

20MHz 16bit and 300MHz 8 bit signal paths

• Family of five PXI modules :• RF Input/Signal Conditioning module• Microwave Band Input Module

• Low Band Input Module• IF Output Conditioner Module• Local Oscillator Module

• Full system consists of:-PXI/PXIe Chassis, Digitizer, Controller, LabVIEW Signal Processing SW



Software Defined Radio

IF-RIO with:2.7G Up and Downconvertor PXIe-5641R IF-RIO



Product Development Life Cycle

Target Setting Subsystem Validation End-of-LineHardware in the LoopSystem ID Calibration

Measurements in the Design Flow



Protocol-Aware ATE

Test Vectors

Standard ATEModel

System Emulationor ProtocolIntelligence

Protocol-AwareCommunication

Output

Intelligence embedded intoFPGA hardware

Routine pre-defined in testsoftware

D U T I n

- c y c l e

r e s p o n s e

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Input



NI FlexRIO – Speed and Flexibility

FlexRIO FPGA Module

• Up to 132 channels• Up to 1 Gb/s per pair• Up to 128 MB of DDR2 DRAM

FlexRIO Adapter Module

• Interchangeable I/O• Customizable by users• Module Development Kit

• 1394b• MIL-STD-1553• ARINC-429• Digitizers• ARB’s

• ….



800-100MHZ UHF Module

•4 Channels•I/Q (De) Modulation•Low-Cost ATE

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Stimulus

Dynamic Test Applications

Response

OnboardSystems

Emulation

Missile

Temp, flow,pressure,

1553…

PWM,analog ,digital

EngineEmulation FADEC

Missile TestEngine Control

Module Test (HIL)





Graphical System Design

National Instruments Vision

Real-time MeasurementsEmbedded MonitoringHardware-in-the-loop

Test and MeasurementAutomated Test

Data AcquisitionReconfigurable

Instruments

Industrial and EmbeddedIndustrial Control (PAC)

Machine ControlElectronic Devices

Code Generation

“To do for embedded what thePC

did for the desktop.”

“To do for test and measurementwhat the spreadsheet did

for financial analysis.”





CompactRIO and Single Board RIOReal-Time Processor 400 MHz processor for floating-point control,

analysis, and logging

Reconfigurable FPGACustomized timing and processing of I/O

Networking/Comm10/100 Ethernet portRS232 Serial port

Expansion I/OConnect up to three C Series modules



Simplify your Embedded Prototyping

Traditional Tools Application Specific



Evolution of Software Abstraction

A b s t r a c t i o n

System complexity

Machine code

Assembly language

CC++

C#

System design platform



LabVIEW FPGA Code AbstractionCounter Analog I/O I/O with DMA

LabVIEW FPGA VHDL~4000 lines



User-Definable FPGA-based I/O

Custom timing andsynchronization

Clocks

Custom Counters

Multi-rate

Custom TriggeringAnalog IO



Configuration Textual Math StatechartSimulation

High-Level Design Tools

Embedded PlatformDesktop Platform

Real-Time FPGA MPU

LabVIEWGraphical Programming

Linux® Macintosh Windows

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C CodeData Flow



Inspiring and Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers

Challenge:40,000 High School Students6 week build of a complex robotics system

Solution:Graphical System Design with NI CompactRIO

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