NI Connect Technical Sessions

Optimizing Test System Development: Best Practices Unveiled

Explore streamlined test engineering approaches for designing and building comprehensive test systems. Learn proven practices to enhance efficiency and precision in test development and management.

Automated Lab Validation Is a Journey: Are You Ready?

Historical approaches to validation test don’t scale. Modernizing your lab across software, electronics, and electromechanical testing is the key to get to market faster.

Digital Twin: Engineering and Testing for Systems

Siemens knows that efficient and robust development and testing solutions are crucial. Learn how digital twinning is defining the future of engineering today.

NI's Solutions to Address the Challenges of the Evolving Energy Industry

An increasing energy demand and accelerated interest in sourcing diverse energy types make stable production and distribution essential. Discover how NI makes it possible!

Best Practices for Scaling Production Using a Platform-Based Testing Approach

Industries face high restrictions and tight deadlines that conflict with product complexity. Discover the benefits of implementing a standardized test architecture across product lines to enhance ROI.

Panel: Test as a Strategic Differentiator, from the Market View to the Experts

NI surveyed 200 test managers on their metrics, challenges, initiative sponsorship, and investment priorities to clarify how test can become a strategic differentiator. Come learn the results.

Mastering Best Practices in Electric Charging Test Development

Explore and master best practices for optimal testing strategies in this deep dive into electric charging tests. We'll review what works, and identify common mistakes made in the field.

Panel: Test System Lifecycle Management and Long-Term Maintenance

Sustaining a test system for years is more challenging than designing it in the first place. Join our experts to discuss best practice to ensure confidence in your manufacturing test deployments.

Panel: Building a New Generation of LabVIEW Engineers

Join academic and industry leaders in this open discussion around developing LabVIEW proficiency in the next generation of graduates, and hear how NI is investing in academia.

What's New in LabVIEW?

In this session, dive into the features of the Q1 2024 release and get a sneak peek into the features to come in Q3 2024.

Getting Started with Mixed-Signal Instrumentation and Python

Learn how to get started with Python and mixed-signal PXI instruments, and discover best practices for integrating Python in your test setup.

Panel: How Can Testing Shape Sustainable Engineering? 

As the climate crisis looms, sustainability is becoming key to product development. Learn how technology advances sustainability efforts and the ways in which testing can cut carbon footprints and preserve resources.   

Sneak Peek: Generative AI and LabVIEW

Excited about the possibilities of what AI can help you do in LabVIEW? Join us as we share updates on NI's journey to creating LabVIEW's first generative AI assistant.

Fast and Flexible: Getting Started with LabVIEW FPGA

New to LabVIEW FPGA? This session covers FPGA programming fundamentals such as creating a functional VI scratch, FPGA clocking, hardware I/O, simulation, debugging, and more.

Streamlining Model Integration with VeriStand

Learn VeriStand enhancements that improve SIL and HIL workflows using MathWorks® Simulink® software, VeriStand, and Functional Mockup Units.

Pro Tips for Validating Designs with CompactDAQ

Discover ways to simplify electromechanical device design validation using NI CompactDAQ and software made for quick mixed-measurement configuration and visualization.

InstrumentStudio Pro: A Low-code Environment for Manual and Automated Measurements

Learn about the next level of measurement productivity from NI. Discover and build plug-ins, execute simple automation, debug your device, interact with all your instruments, and more.

That’s the Suite Life! A Session on the LabVIEW+ Suite

Learn about improvements we’re making to software and how we’re connecting our portfolio. We’ll show product roadmaps and demos.

What's New in RF Hardware and Software?

NI has been working to enhance its RF products since the release of the first vector signal transceiver in 2012. In this session, discover the advancements NI is making to its RF portfolio.

ORAN Prototyping and mmWave Research with the Ettus USRP X410

Learn how NI configured a USRP X410 USRP (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) device to operate as an ORAN FH 7.2-compliant radio helped facilitate a mmWave targeted wireless network and communication prototyping.

Panel: How Will AI/ML Impact the Way We Engineer & Test? 

AI has the potential to transform entire industries. But what are the risks of adopting this rapidly evolving technology? Hear experts debate the promises and pitfalls of using AI hardware and software in test and measurement.

Intro to Hardware in the Loop Test in NI Software

Join this session to learn how you can accelerate your embedded software test. Discover what's new and how you can use VeriStand, TestStand, and LabVIEW FPGA for Hardware in the Loop (HIL) testing.

Linux Community Meetup

This conversational session will feature opportunities to meet others from the Linux community both within and outside of NI and talk about the Linux-specific challenges, trends, and needs for the future.

Tips and Tricks for Performing High-Speed Real-Time Data Analysis Using LabVIEW FPGA

Explore techniques for in-line data analysis and data reduction. In this session, we'll explore LabVIEW FPGA templates, custom triggering, independent FIFOs, in-line DSP, and multirecord acquisition.

What's New in TestStand?

In this session, dive into the features of the Q2 2024 release and get a sneak peak into the features coming later in the year.

Make Measurement Reuse Your New Superpower

Creating measurements that can be reused across multiple testing scenarios can be difficult. But we can help! Learn how to develop measurements that actually will be reused across projects today and tomorrow.

The State-of-the-Art for Actor Framework

Learn from the actor framework (AF) master Allen Smith as he takes us on a tour of developer tools, recent enhancements, and how the community continues to drive AF innovation.

Quick! Drop Your VI Execution Time!

Simple tips and techniques for speeding up your VIs. This includes general purpose programming techniques, as well as the most efficient way to use profiling tools in LabVIEW.

Demystifying gRPC: A Dive into the Mysterious Engine behind MeasurementLink^TM Software

gRPC is an open-source remote procedure call system Google developed in 2015. Though "cool and powerful," it can present a challenge. Learn how we made gRPC more approachable with its integration into MeasurementLink software.

Anyone Can Learn LabVIEW Anywhere!

From Raspberry Pi and pico board to the simple training manual, video clips, and software, you can take measurements with LabVIEW within hours. All manuals, slides, and software are open-sourced!

Digital Twin—Not Your Everyday Personal Clone

What is a digital twin? What is the value proposition of having one? What is the investment? And how do you get started? We’ll tell you!

Introduction to DQMH

DQMH is the most popular 3rd-party framework for LabVIEW, and was designed to facilitate the robust implementation of complex applications, while still being accessible to CLAD/CLD-level programmers.

The Big Refactor: A Technological Challenge and Business Outcomes

Learn about test engineer team that needed to refactor its test automation software. From crafting the future state, consulting with experts, building the business case, finding a partner, and executing, learn how we did it!

Easing into SystemLink Software with LabVIEW

Yes, you can power SystemLink software with the LabVIEW APIs! Learn how to create a new test result, create steps under that result, attach files to it, and collect additional metadata about the system to that result.

TestStandifier: A Tool to Adapt a DQMH Module

Using DMH with TestStand can present challenges. Discover the pros and cons of using DQMH in TestStand sequences and see how DQMH TestStandifier adapts a DQMH module for efficient use in TestStand.

LabVIEW Units: Better than Darren N. Thinks They Are

LabVIEW control units can be both helpful and frustrating. Learn how to be productive (read: happy) with them.

NI FPGA, Past, Present, Future

Review of NI FPGA case studies and current challenges. Workflow reviews for LabVIEW FPGA and Vivado users.  Will conclude with Ask Me Anything.

Malleable VIs Unlocked and More

Compare malleable VIs, polymorphic VIs, classes, and other techniques to selectively execute code. Discuss ground rules, power techniques, and test-driven development.

LabVIEW and TestStand—Together throughout the Test Lifecycle

LabVIEW and TestStand: Better together. Let's look at the complementary roles of LabVIEW and TestStand as we move from the lab, to benchtop design validation and NPI, and into production.

Smartphone-Like User Interfaces in LabVIEW

Looking for advanced user interfaces? Developing a user experience for a touchscreen? Learn tricks for using the QControl Toolkit to create swipe, scroll, and selection functions via touchscreen.

Don't Skip this Step: Test Strategy from Planning to Execution

Typically, engineers don't want to plan—we want to engineer. And yet, planning our test strategy is essential to ensure success. Learn from a veteran chief engineer on what to do and not do to ensure test strategy success.

Introduction to "Summer of LabVIEW 2024"

The Summer of LabVIEW aims to bridge the beginner-to-experienced skill gap and provide programming challenges for training and fun across most skill levels.