Arendar 2009 Suite is a finalist in the “Test-development and test-management software” category while the MMTS is a finalist in the “Audio/video and multimedia” category. The winner of each category will be decided via an online ballot on Test and Measurement World’s website. Additionally, the overall top vote getter wins “2009 Test Product of the Year.” Click here to vote.

Arendar 2009 Suite is enterprise test software that enables you to control all aspects of your enterprise test. Arendar[R] 2009 Suite expands upon the highly configurable and expandable Arendar platform to provide modules that cover the needs of test engineers and managers. The Test Plan Module models all the test information required such as testing sequence, limits, parameters, and hardware configuration via a standard Web browser. Users can control and deploy test code to test stations from their desks, ensure and enforce repeatability by retrieving test conditions and limits from a centralized location, and create real-time reports on their test plan execution.

The MMTS includes all the necessary hardware, software, algorithms, and extensions for testing analog video, digital video, analog audio, and digital audio (S/PDIF). With this system, test engineers configure the sequences that are available out of the box and define the test parameters within which their device should perform without a need for programming. The test system can efficiently test up to four multimedia devices in parallel maximizing the testing throughput without sacrificing the quality or the speed of the measurements, yielding overall increases in test performance by up to 30X. No other system on the market today offers the combination of a full-featured set of measurements, minimal configuration time, low price and cost of ownership, and minimal footprint.

VI Technology has developed the MMTS to be a fully-integrated measurement system that delivers the fastest path to analog & digital audio and video measurements for multimedia devices. This automated test system significantly reduces testing time for multimedia-capable devices such as DVD players, set-top boxes, smart phones, mobile devices, computers, and video game consoles.

Over 90% of VI Technology engineers are certified by Microsoft, National Instruments, or the Project Management Institute.This allowed us to develop a premier automated test system that most notably has the following benefits: speed, scalability, cost, throughput, user configurable, and test data management .

The MMTS eliminates the need for stand-alone measurement devices. This provides users with 3 main advantages: reduced foot print on the production floor, no external timing and synchronization mechanisms between measurement devices, and ensured integrity and proper correlation of all acquired signals. In addition, by having one full-featured all-in-one system, you rely on one vendor for customization and support instead of relying on multiple vendors.

“The Multimedia Test System is a great showcase of VI Technology’s ability to increase their customer’s productivity and product quality by developing a cost-effective automated test solution based on National Instruments hardware and software products. Significantly increasing test throughput in such a small footprint compared to existing platforms enables customers to execute on lower cost test strategies for multimedia-capable devices,” said Michael Schneider, Market Development Manager for National Instruments.

This blog was created to give you the latest information with VI Technology. First, let me give you a breif history on the company.

VI Technology was founded in Austin, Texas in 1991 by an Electrical Engineer and a Computer Scientist from the University of Texas. Originally founded to develop software instrument drivers for measurement instruments, the company quickly expanded to develop turnkey automated test systems and enterprise test solutions for a wide range of industries. Enterprise test solutions combine custom automated test systems and enterprise technologies such as Arendar to solve company-wide test problems for the semiconductor, communications, defense, biomedical, and consumer electronics industries. VI Technology is a National Instruments Certified Alliance Member and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with proven expertise in these companies’ test and measurement hardware, application and database software.

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