Professional Analysis and

Presentation Toolkits

There are several analysis and presentation add-on toolkits available

from National Instruments that help make you more productive

when developing custom applications with your S Series devices.

Turn your S Series device into a transient recorder, spectrum

analyzer, or one of several other instruments with these toolkits.

NI LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit

This toolkit includes a full set of frequency-domain analysis and

presentation tools required for sound and vibration applications.

These tools include:

• Distortion, gain, phase, cross-talk, and dynamic range measurements

• Octave analysis

• Swept-sine analysis

• Linear, exponential, and peak hold measurements

• Baseband and zoom FFT, power, FFT, power spectral density (PSD)

• Limit testing

• Short-time Fourier transform and shock response spectrum

• Weighting filters

• System calibration

• Waterfall/colormap display

NI LabVIEW Signal Processing Toolkit

This toolkit is a suite of software tools, example programs, and

utilities for time-frequency analysis and digital filter design. The

toolkit includes:

• Wavelet and filter-bank design

• Digital filter design of FIR and IIR filters

• Joint time-frequency analysis (JTFA) with the Gabor spectrograph

• High-frequency resolution model-based spectral estimation for

small datasets

NI Spectral Measurements Toolkit

This toolkit includes all of the analysis and presentation tools to

convert your S Series device into a full-featured spectrum analyzer.

The toolkit includes:

• Measurements such as in-band power and adjacent-channel power

• 3D spectrogram

• Analog modulation and demodulation

• I-Q data for digital demodulation

• Highly optimized FFT processing

High-Performance Data Throughput

Using NI-DAQmx driver software and S Series, you can take full

advantage of your PC’s throughput potential, which is useful in many

applications including transient recording.

Flexible Data Transfer

With NI-DAQmx, you can choose where to accumulate data – on the

onboard memory, PC RAM memory, or PC hard drive memory.

Thus, you can balance your PC application requirements and

stream-to-disk/memory capabilities. In any case, NI-DAQmx

optimizes data transfers by using DMA (direct memory access) and

transferring large chunks of data, while ensuring no data loss. You

can also choose the format of your data, further optimizing

throughput. Choices include raw (binary), scaled, or the high-level

waveform data type. Using these techniques, you can achieve rates of

more than 40 MS/s sustained over the PCI/PXI bus to hard drive

(depending on the PC).

S Series Multifunction DAQ – up to 16-Bit,

up to 3 MS/s per Channel, up to 8 Analog Inputs

Figure 1. Sound and Vibration Toolkit