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Introduction
VisualICE is the revolutionary approach to rapidly developing modular automated test programs in the shortest time possible.

Benefits
- Enables both novice and experienced technical personnel to immediately contribute to test program development and strategy, via interactive test system/device-under-test graphical control panels and self-documenting spreadsheet test program script definitions.

- Optimizes test execution throughput speed to enable the fastest time to test completion and new product introduction.

- Delivers instrument hardware and system test interchangeability via its software mapping process, eliminating the need for future costly software rehosting, and facilitating dramatic test system cost reduction across the entire engineering and production operation.

Features
- Interactive graphical user interfaces for rapid test and verification
- Intuitive visual user interface panels for various instrumentation classes (eg. SCOPE, DMM, SWITCHING)
- Open-architecture for control of all instrumentation platforms (VXI, IEEE-488) and plug-in data acquisition (PCI, Compact PCI, ISA, USB)

the VisualICE advantage

Traditional Development Method

STEP 1.
- Read Instrument Manuals
- Write sample programs
- Use vendor-supplied applications

STEP 2.
- Search through function/command documentation or source code
- Write short test case programs, usually in text-based language with no graphical user interface
- Programs must be rewritten and recompiled in order to modify existing scenario or to create new scenarios

STEP 3.
- Collect separate test cases and re-examine which functions/commands to use in final test program

The VisualICE Method

STEP 1.
- Gain immediate understanding of the entire instrumentation system through complete set of graphical user interfaces
- Operate instrumentation through intuitive vendor-independent "instrument class" visual test panels
- Interactive help tools concurrently explain the instrument operation/functions/commands as the software executes

STEP 2.
- Software reports and saves which functions/commands are executed throughout visual test panel operation
- Comprehensive vendor/model-specific graphical user interfaces allow testing of unique or advanced instrumentation features
- Point-and-click control of all system-wide instrumentation provides rapid development of test scenarios
- No program writing or compilation is necessary; saving much time and expense

STEP 3.
- Interactive creation of test program concurrently with VisualICE provides the simplest, quickest instrumentation control software development process

who benefits
Project managers will realize immediate and continual return on their investment in VisualICE through cost savings in the development, integration, and maintenance project stages.

Engineers and technicians will be able to visually control their instrumentation to quickly perform testing scenarios and simultaneously develop their application programs.

Instrumentation vendors and system integrators may use VisualICE and other GSS solutions to provide cost effective, automatic software control of their equipment, rather than develop their own expensive, proprietary software interfaces from the ground up.

Control your entire instrumentation system
through multiple levels of interacive graphical panels...
SEE how much faster your
test program can GO now!

System Level Key Features:
- display instrumentation system configuration
- provides instrumentation detail for documentation
- configures communication bus properties

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Instrument_model_screen.jpg (48631 bytes)

Instrument Model Layer Key Features:
- fully utilize advanced features of instrument
- debugging tools to instrument I/O communication

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Instrument_class_screen.jpg (37889 bytes)

Instrument Class Level Key Features:
- generic vendor-independent control of any configured instrument in-class
- intuitive, instant operation
- useful for vendor instrument performance verification