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Designing automated test systems:
 
A practical developer's guide to software-defined test engineering
Free 82 page Technical Resource available for download now.
 
Defining a corporate test strategy is critical to reducing cost and maximizing the efficiency of your product development and manufacturing organizations. National Instruments has developed a rich collection of technical and business content based on best practices shared by industry-leading test engineering teams and the expertise of the NI test engineering and product research and development teams. Ultimately, these resources are designed to share test engineering best practices in a practical and reusable manner.
 
The 'Designing Automated Test Systems Developer's Guide' is available to download for free online. This resource teaches you the fundamentals of architecting modular, software-defined test systems using a five-layer architecture. Each step in the process contains detail on considerations and insight from test application development experts including:
 
  • Step 1: Identifying your measurement needs: the scope of your test system, selecting a hardware platform, determining required instrumentation
  • Step 2: Selecting hardware: choosing your rack, designing rack layout, power distribution, switching, mass interconnect, fixturing considerations
  • Step 3: Software Development: test executive best practices, code module development, choosing your instrument driver paradigm
  • Step 4: Assembling your test system: components, building and routing, installing and activating, configuring and validating
  • Step 5: Deploying your test system: system replication, activation, space, power, networking, environment, safety and maintenance

Download the complimentary 82 page developer's guide: 'Designing Automated Test Systems'.
 
Learn more about other National Instruments online resources for automated test at: http://www.ni.com/automatedtest/guides.htm

 


Invitation to the SAIEE 2010 Bernard Price Memorial Lecture
Presented in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth

On behalf of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE), you, your colleagues, friends, family and all interested persons are cordially invited to attend (no cost, free-of-charge) the 
 
THE SAIEE 2010 BERNARD PRICE MEMORIAL LECTURE
 
entitled
 
"The Past and Future of the Internet"
 
presented by Dr. Glenn Ricart, USA

A cocktail party with drinks and snacks will be served free-of-charge after the lecture, where you will be able to network with colleages and friends in a cordial environment. Further details are as follows:

DURBAN
Date: Wednesday 20 October 2010
Time: 17h00 for 17h30
Venue: University of KZN, Lecture Theatre GO1, Elec Eng Building
RSVP: Gill Nortier, [email protected]
 
JOHANNESBURG
Date: Thursday 21 October 2010
Time: 18h30 for 19h00
Venue: University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall
RSVP: Gerda Geyer, [email protected]
 
CAPE TOWN
Date: Monday 25 October 2010
Time: 17h30 for 18h00
Venue: CPUT, Cape Town Campus, Engineering Building LT5
RSVP: Dave Martin, [email protected]
 
PORT ELIZABETH
Date: Tuesday 26 October 2010
Time: 17h30 for 18h00
Venue: NMMU Conference Centre, North Campus
RSVP: Nicole Ward, [email protected]
 
SYNOPSIS
 
This lecture will begin by describing Glenn Ricart's first-hand experiences with how the internet moved from a DARPA project to a commercial service during the 1980s. Then Dr. Ricart will discuss the developments which will need to take place in technology, economics and politics in order to allow the internet to continue to grow. Glitches and weaknesses which are tolerable for an entertainment medium will not be acceptable as internets become integral to the economy, health, safety and national defense.
 
BRIEF CV OF PRESENTER
 
Dr. Glenn Ricart is an internet pioneer and entrepreneur with a broad range of technology and business leadership experience in large corporations, start-ups, academia, the US military and government research. His positions have included: president and CEO of National LambdaRail; managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers; co-founder and chief technology officer of CenterBeam; and executive vice president and chief technology officer for Novell.
 
Dr. Ricart is known for his pioneering work in bringing the ARPAnet protocols into academic and commercial use. In the mid-1980s, while academic CIO at the University of Maryland College Park, his teams: created the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC; created the first campus-wide TCP/IP network; shipped and managed the software that powered the first non-military TCP/IP national network, the NSFnet; created the first open internet interchange point (the FIX and later MAE-EAST); and proposed and created the first operating NSFnet regional network, SURAnet.
 
From 1995 - 1999 Dr. Ricart was Novell's executive vice president and chief technology officer responsible for its technology. During this time, Novell shipped Netware 5 and eDirectory, and Dr. Ricart started its advanced technology organisation, and was responsible for growing Novell's software development capability in India.From 1993 - 1995, Dr. Ricart served in the military at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this role he was responsible for managing the US defense research programmes in end-system security, operating systems and middleware. He also served as the military's technology liaison to the Clinton administration.
 
Dr. Ricart has founded or co-founded three start-ups: Consultants in Computer Technology, SURAnet and CenterBeam. CenterBeam survived the dot-com bust and is still providing directory-based remote IT management services in San Jos� today.
 
Dr. Ricart has served on the boards of three public companies (First USA Financial Services, CACI and SCO) and numerous non-profit organisations, including EDUCOM, the Internet Society and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. He currently serves on the board of the Public Interest Registry, the organisation that provides registry services for .org. He was the co-founder of the Common Solutions Group and the Federation of American Research Networks.
 
Dr. Ricart received his BSc and MSc from Case and his PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland. He holds nine issued patents and several more are pending, and he invented the seminal algorithm for distributed mutual exclusion in operating systems. Its publication in the Communications of the ACM has been cited by nearly six hundred scholarly papers and books.
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