National Instruments
Software Simulation of Real Hardware for Lab Testing
Client
National Instruments
Industry
Hardware & Test
Services
Hardware Simulation, R&D, Tooling
The Challenge
National Instruments' hardware validation was bottlenecked by scarce, expensive physical devices. Every test competed for a bench, and R&D throughput suffered for it.
Our Approach
We built software simulations of real hardware, covering multiple devices rather than a single reference unit.
That gave the lab the ability to test, reproduce and optimise in parallel instead of queueing for a bench.
Simulation also changes what is testable, not just how fast: a simulated device can be driven to edge cases and fault conditions that are slow, expensive or destructive to reproduce on physical hardware, and it reproduces them identically every run.
Work that previously waited on physical hardware could now happen long before anything ever hit a device, with the bench reserved for the validation that genuinely needs a real unit.
Results
Hardware
Simulated In Software
Parallel
Test + Optimise
Multi
Devices Covered
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