Sound and Vibration Software Overview and Feature Comparison

Overview

National Instruments Sound and Vibration Software provides a complete software solution for many acoustics, electroacoustics, noise Vibration Harshness (NVH), and machine condition monitoring (MCM) applications. Based on its open analysis capability and a flexible measurement library, the NI Sound and Vibration Toolkit presents a unique software-based measurement approach to creating customized applications.

Sound and Vibration Feature Comparison

 

Base

Full

File I/O
UFF58 (ASCII, Binary)XX
Logging to TDMSXX
Frequency Analysis
FFT analysisXX
Zoom FFTXX
Subset FFTXX
Frequency response function (FRF)XX
Cross spectraXX
Coherent output powerXX
Peak searchXX
Power in bandXX
Performance-optimized analysis for online processingXX
Frequency-referenced vector averagingXX
Graphs, Displays, and Controls
Time waveform, octave spectra, FFT spectra graphsXX
Waterfall plotXX
Spectral mapX
Bode plotsXX
Orbit and shaft centerline plotX
Polar plotX
Acoustic Measurements
Sound levelXX
1/n octaveXX
Weighting filtersXX
Statistical levelXX
Sound qualityX
Vibration Measurements
IntegrationXX
Vibration levelXX
Human vibration filtersX
Torsional vibration
X
Audio Measurements, Tone and Distortion
HarmonicsXX
Distortion (THD, THD+N, SINAD)XX
Intermodulation distortion (IMD)XX
Tone detectionXX
Multitone analysisXX
Audio test signal generationXX
Discrete frequency sweep analysisXX
Continuous frequency sweep analysisX
Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR)XX
CrosstalkXX
SNRXX
Discrete frequency sweep analysisXX
Swept sineXX
HistogramXX
Limit testingXX
Data Acquisition
Software analog reference triggerXX
Delay and polarityXX
Waveform alignmentXX
Get by measurement typeXX
Waveform Generation
Broadband noise (White, Pink, PRN)XX
Functions (Sine, Square, Triangle)XX
Continuous frequency sweepXX
Discrete frequency sweepXX
Discrete amplitude sweepXX
Phase-continuous multitoneXX
Transient Analysis
Shock response spectrum (SRS)XX
Short-time Fourier transform (STFT)XX
Calibration
Accelerometer and microphone calibrationXX
Order Analysis
Angular resamplingX
Envelope detectionX
Tachometer processingX
Order power spectrumX
Full spectrumX
Order trackingX
Order extractionX

 

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