Application Areas

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test platforms are commonly used within engineering organizations to perform verification testing of embedded systems. A well-designed HIL test solution can shorten an embedded system’s development schedule by quickly adapting to requirement changes and minimizing rework to test infrastructure. By simulating an embedded system’s operating environment, an HIL test solution can reduce the cost and improve the safety of verification testing by moving more testing from the field to the lab. The staff at Numeric Test has years of experience developing HIL test solutions for the transportation, aerospace, and defense industries using NI VeriStand and can help you design and create common HIL components, including:

• Custom devices for interacting with 3rd party hardware
• Plant models for simulating the external environment
• Automation of test scenario execution

The lifespan of a production test system often matches the manufacturing lifespan of the products it tests. With the lifespan of products in the transportation, aerospace, and defense industries stretching many years or even decades, the design decisions made during the development of a production test system can make an impact on an organization for a long time.   To ensure the design of your next production test solution starts off in the right direction, contact Numeric Test and learn how our in-house Certified TestStand Architect can help production test teams design and build test solutions that:

• Shorten test times through parallel testing of product functionality
• Increase test capacity by parallel testing of multiple products
• Minimize impact of instrument obsolescence with the use of hardware abstraction layers

When the capability needed to test a product cannot be found in an existing instrument, an FPGA-based instrument may be the right solution. An FPGA-based instrument allows third parties to create custom “personalities” for an instrument, providing end-user specific functionality. With years of experience developing FPGA test applications and an NI Certified LabVIEW Embedded Developer, Numeric Test can develop an FPGA-based instrument for your product’s custom functionality, including:

• Proprietary communications protocols
• Custom data acquisition triggering conditions
• Combining /synchronizing multiple instruments’ functionality into a single instrument

Whether you need a helping hand improving the performance of an existing automated test solution or designing a test solution from the ground up, Numeric Test has the skills you need for your next project.

Our custom test development services are heavily based on hardware and software tools from National Instruments, allowing us to provide our customers with high-quality solutions. If you require automated test development services, contact Numeric Test.