NI Week 2009 is Almost Here and the CD Shattering Demo is Back

[Adri_K.]

NI Week 2009 is only days away! I hope that you will be joining us for the great NI Week Events and have your calendars marked with all the LabWindows/CVI sessions, certifications, and demos. You can see a full list of the LabWindows/CVI sessions in the NI Week 2009 LabWindows/CVI Events blog post and can get all the NI Week informaiton on the NI Week 2009 home page.

The HALT/HASS Automated Test with the NI LabWindows™/CVI Real-Time Module demo is back! You may have seen this demo if you joined us for a previous NI Week Conference, and have heard it referred to as the familiar with the infromal name of the LabWindows™/CVI CD shattering demo.

We have made major improvements to the demo and we are excited to show it off. The demo uses LabWindows™/CVI Real Time on a PXI embedded controller to control a motor that performs lifetime testing of a CD by spinning it and measuring the speed of the disc. There are two control modes: spin up and down through cycles, and spin until failure.  You can interact with the motor control and analyze measurement displays using the LabWindows™/CVI Real Time module, an ASP.NET web page with Measurement Studio web controls, network variables and TDMS data files.

Be sure to mark your calendar for one of the scheduled CD failure tests so that you can witnees a CD being shattered!