The industry's understanding of testing has risen from the concept of technology to the concept of service.

5G, autonomous driving, big data, artificial intelligence, etc., behind these new technology applications is the re-integration of various disciplines. So, how does the PXI ecosystem represented by NI (National Instruments) cope with this trend of discipline integration? And how to solve the increasingly complex system upgrade needs?

Basic Information Sharing

The general concept of China's industrial upgrading also includes the upgrading of test technology, test tools and even test methods.

 "Test users used to test only a single function in the past, and in the future, they will test intelligent hardware, so our test system can no longer meet new challenges with traditional methods. This is the external environment and technology trends to us." According to Liu Xuyang, Marketing Manager of NI Greater China, "Now, the industry's understanding of testing has risen from the concept of technology to the concept of service. This means that more customized test services are needed. At the same time, customized test services also reflect more expectations for Industry 4.0 and industrial manufacturing in terms of intelligence. Smarter testing is not only the expectation of users, but also the development goal of NI. The smarter test link is reflected in its data-oriented aspect, which means that it can be more flexible, more convenient, and more easily upgraded while meeting diversified needs".

This year, NI through the PXI technology to focus on promoting, developing military and aerospace, automotive industry, university research and semiconductor four areas, is also an important direction of its China localization strategy. Liu Xuyang said: "A lot of basic chemical information can be shared, reflecting the trend of PXI cross-border integration. In the rapidly developing 5G technology, some key technologies can be used in military aerospace, such as for the channel simulation is very similar, indicating that the barriers between the various disciplinary areas have been broken, so NI established PXI TAC aims to communicate with each other."

It is understood that the PXI TAC as an industry forum has been held this year for fifteen years, this forum not only brings the PXI technology, but also brought on behalf of the entire PXI industry alliance. Although, NI invented the PXI technology, in fact, NI is also a member of the PXI industry alliance, which now includes many domestic enterprises, colleges and universities of more than 60 operators to join the alliance.

The significance of NI to establish PXI industry alliance is to continuously absorb and integrate new technologies to promote the innovation and development of domestic test technology.

Meet different needs through modularization

PXI how to support new technology innovation, integration, NI automation test market vice president Luke this answer: "First of all, in the beginning of the creation of the PXI, has taken into account the possible changes in technology, we have made the initiative is modular, so that according to different needs to insert the new technology, for example, in the development of 5G, for the development of different countries focus on the research and development of the modularization of PXI technology to meet the different needs. For example, in the development of 5G, the modularization of PXI technology can be used to meet the different needs of different countries in terms of their R&D priorities. Secondly, although PXI is a hardware platform, it actually needs to be combined with software applications. This means that software plays a very important role in it, for example, now this complex application of artificial intelligence, many algorithms need to be realized on the carrier, based on PXI and software definition, engineers can focus more on algorithm research, whether the algorithm is used in automotive or other fields, can be given to the PXI system, CPU, FPGA or even GPU, the underlying computing, so that they deal with the algorithm, based on such a platform, based on software definition, the PXI can be used in a variety of applications, such as automotive, automotive and other fields. Based on such a platform, based on the software can be customized to develop algorithms to form a commercial hardware development. Finally, PXI is a widely used test platform, you can learn from the application of technology in different fields, and even learn from each other in other fields of test methods and test technology, through the PXI platform transfer, you can combine the methods of other fields into the new field".

NI Asia-Pacific marketing director Tang Min believes that PXI has a very broad ecosystem. If the PXI TAC is compared to a large tree, NI provides the trunk, customers and partners are branches and leaves. "After many years of development of this ecosystem, local vendors and partners are rooted on top of this big tree, which can help different industries including 5G, smart cars, and communications. The key to our success is to keep the algorithms and IPs iterating rapidly." She added this.

Qiao Wei, Sales Director of NI Greater China, said: "First, PXI is an open ecosystem, different vendors can customize their own modules, through a variety of cooperation, so that PXI the entire product supply, can meet the future convergence of technology needs. Second, through cooperation with customers, it is even possible to anticipate future needs. Thirdly, PXI platform not only has solutions or software development, but also can rely on its openness to extend the past business development process to technical solutions and even products, which are developed by the local team, so that not only can we respond to the needs of the Chinese market to the products, but also better build the ecosystem of the local market, and ultimately to serve the local market with diversified cooperation modes! ".

Ecosystem system as support

For China's automotive industry, the hot trend of intelligence, as a bridge from R & D to mass production of the test link, NI to provide what personalized solutions?

Luke Schreier, vice president of NI automated test market, believes that whether it is an electric car or an intelligent networked car, different from the previous traditional automobile testing, they put forward higher and newer testing requirements, control requirements, test accuracy, test control requirements. He said frankly, "the test contains not only the product signal test, but also includes RF signal test, how to make the test and control to form an organic whole has become a new challenge under the new trend of China's automobile development".

Luke Schreier pointed out that NI's biggest advantage is that PXI can provide high-precision testing and control. "Intelligent vehicle testing is not a product, a manufacturer can cope with, this is the need for an ecosystem or a system to support, in order to promote the development of intelligent vehicle testing industry. In the automotive field NI's advantage is even more obvious, in different countries such as the United States, Germany, Japan and China, we have partners to engage in the development, validation and testing and interaction of smart cars, electric cars and connected cars. In addition, we also use some software like SystemLink to link the data of testing. Test points are test assets, and we want to connect test resources to get more insights on data. At the same time, we also give our customers automated tests or automated test platforms and link test resources to intellectual property (IP). Because we know that once we get to the concept of infrastructure, to a large extent, we have already crossed the test category, and have entered the IP core, we need to make an organic combination of these two systems".

Liu Xuyang further explained that, in fact, many interoperability scenarios will have such needs as the car, the test individual, the object and its surrounding environment to form a network, the formation of interconnectivity, which requires the operation of the technology and IP technology to interface. At present, we cooperate with the domestic leading IT vendors providing cloud services, and want to provide IP+OP solutions in China, which is not a vendor, a product can solve the problem, we need to work together to promote the development of the entire industrial Internet.

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