Tektronix Builds Serial ATA Compliance Test Solution Using NI TestStand
NEWS RELEASE – Feb. 5, 2008 – National Instruments today announced that Tektronix built its newly released TekExpress SATA (Serial ATA) automated compliance test solution on NI TestStand test management software. NI TestStand gave Tektronix an open, flexible development platform that facilitated the implementation of the TekExpress compliance test automation framework for Serial ATA and other complex serial data standards. With the ability to execute test modules in any programming language, a feature of NI TestStand, the TekExpress development team built a framework that can use the best programming language for each test module and seamlessly integrate multiple programming languages. The NI TestStand high-speed execution engine helped the TekExpress SATA solution reduce compliance test time by approximately 70 percent.
“We chose NI TestStand for our TekExpress Framework and follow-on automated compliance test products because of its industry-wide acceptance, worldwide user base and network of integrators,” said Jit Lim, director, technology solutions group, Tektronix. “NI TestStand also gave us a proven software platform that is supported by National Instruments worldwide, which helped our distributed development team work more efficiently.”
By using an off-the-shelf test management platform such as NI TestStand, Tektronix can extend the TekExpress compliance test automation framework to other serial data standards in the future. In addition, Tektronix can use NI TestStand to automate other test operations around the compliance tests such as controlling thermal chambers.
“The adoption of NI TestStand for the TekExpress compliance test automation framework demonstrates the software’s flexibility for both design validation and manufacturing test applications,” said John Pasquarette, director of software marketing for National Instruments. “Tektronix, like all of our customers, benefits from the open NI TestStand platform to simplify maintenance and reuse code, which significantly reduces time to market.”
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About Tektronix
Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products, and solutions and services for the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries – as well as military/aerospace, consumer electronics, education and a broad range of other industries worldwide. With 60 years of experience, Tektronix enables its customers to design, build, deploy, and manage next-generation global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. Headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., Tektronix has operations in 19 countries worldwide. The Tektronix Web address is www.tektronix.com.
About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,500 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past nine years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
