The LXI Consortium hosts their second PlugFest event August 23-25, 2005 in Portland, Oregon. Manufacturers will bring a variety of prototypes to test instrument compatibility and interoperability. They will be testing essential functionality, such as LAN and Web interfaces, 1588 Precision Time Protocol, and the Hardware Trigger Interface. The event will also include a general […]

The ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit extends National Instruments LabVIEW, NI LabWindows/CVI, and Microsoft C/C++ development environments to support measurement and calibration applications for electronic control unit (ECU) design and validation. The new ECU Toolkit delivers high-level, easy-to-use functions that ECU designers, testers and engineers can use to build their own customized ASAM measurement and […]

A&D Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of A&D Manufacturing, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, has acquired the Powertrain Technology Division of MTS Systems Corporation. The Powertrain Technology Division supplies powertrain test systems to many companies, including those making automobiles, off-highway vehicles, small engines, diesel engines, and fuels and lubricants. The company also offers products to the motorsports industry. […]

DAF Trucks N.V., a Netherlands-based manufacturer of medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles will begin using LMS Virtual.Lab Motion software to simulate and optimize the dynamic performance of its diesel engines. A subsidiary of Paccar Inc., DAF Trucks will use LMS Virtual.Lab in designing various configurations of diesel engines for their own commercial vehicles as well […]