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Hardware
Blue Ridge Test works with commercially available hardware and software tools
to rapidly design, develop and deploy the most cost effective automation solutions.
We have experience with many different instruments, data acquisition
cards and interfaces. We use National Instruments hardware for
instrument control and data acquisition.
Data Acquisition
DAQ (Data Acquisition) cards are instrumental in the development of low cost test & automation solutions. DAQ allows the generation and acquisition of signals without the use of costly dedicated instruments. Once the data is captured, LabVIEW is used to process and analyze the data. Blue Ridge Test has experience with a variety analog and digital data acquisition cards, as well as counter/timer cards. Several of the form factors that we regularly work with are PCI, PXI, Compact RIO, Compact DAQ, FieldPoint and Compact Field Point.
Modular Instruments
Blue Ridge Test has experience with spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, function generators, power supplies, electronic loads, dynamic signal analyzers, logic analyzers and other instruments.
We can automate your measurements required for manufacturing test.
We also have experience in product design and verification. Whether
you need to measure audio distortion, oscillator phase noise,
transmitter EVM, synthesizer switching time, receiver IMD products
or some other parameter. We can automate
your measurement, collect the measurement data and assist in the
data analysis.
PACs
Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs) combine the ruggedness
and reliability of PLCs (Programmable Logic Controller), the
programmability and performance of PCs and FPGA custom hardware
flexibility.
Instrument Control
We have implemented solutions with GPIB, I2C, SPI, ARINC 429, RS-232 and RS-485 communication protocols.
For GPIB communication, we use the National Instruments PCI-GPIB interface, the industry standard in GPIB communications. The National Instruments PCI-GPIB card and MAX (Measurement and Automation Explorer) allow for rapid troubleshooting and debugging of GPIB interfaces. *PC Card and Ethernet GPIB interfaces are also available. One key benefit of working with LabVIEW for GPIB instrument control is that the LabVIEW GPIB drivers allow for transparent changing between GPIB interfaces without any code modifications.