Toolkit for sequencing measurements and analysing results
AGILENT Technologies has released the Agilent T&M Toolkit version 2.0 with test automation. It provides a fast method of sequencing measurements and analysing results.
It can be used to automate instrument control and measurement sequences for design validation and prototype testing without using complex and expensive test executives.
It makes it easy to create textual programs for Visual Studio in a fully integrated, consistent test and measurement environment for multiple software languages. It adds new functionality to existing instrument connection tools, I/O monitoring and driver wizards, specialised test and measurement maths, and graphs for creating applications in Visual Studio.
New features allow users to create tests using built-in branching logic, limit checking and debugging. It can automatically capture test results in XML format, export them to Excel or analyse them instantly using automatically generated control charts and histograms.
The system can also be used to quickly control and automate measurements by sequencing SCPI commands, VEE code, any Microsoft .NET language code (including VB .NET, Managed C++ and C#), VXIplug&play, and IVI-COM drivers.
The Agilent T&M Toolkit 2.0 suite of open component-based test and measurement software tools offers an easy-to-use interface that helps engineers boost productivity, reduce costs and accelerate time to market. Last year Agilent announced support for both Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. The Test Automation can function with or without Visual Studio .NET.
20-Sep-2004