Software

Increasing customer requirements, shorter product cycles and higher time to market demands dramatically influence the long-term goals in software development. With the Universal Test Platform Software Suite (UTP Suite), we introduce a robust standard that features a great set of tools for configuring, developing, analyzing, debugging and executing test sequences.

The UTP Suite story started as an internal project many years ago. We wanted to build a software suite that would cover all aspects of creating a modern test system software while helping our project engineers to focus only on specific project challenges, thus satisfying customer needs in less time. We put a lot of effort in establishing a hardware abstraction layer that would equally serve hardware and software developers and improve their collaboration. We rely on the recognized development environments such as NI TestStand, NI LabVIEW, and .NET and used all our know-how and experience to create an internal standard that eventually became a standard for our customers. Day-to-day conversions with our test engineers as well as regular feedback enabled us to develop the UTP Suite very fast to a standardized solution not only for developers and test engineers but also for operators.

Over time we recognized a great need for mechanisms to ease debugging and post-sale support and maintenance and added tools for logging. Currently, we use the UTP Suite for building the overwhelming majority of our turn-key systems and also provide it as a development platform to our experienced customers. Achieve the maximum benefits by using the complete UTP Suite or purchase only the components you need. The UTP approach has been extremely successful in various industries, be it product validation or production test systems. Our dedicated Software R&D Team is constantly improving and extending UTP Suite so if you’re missing something they will be happy to add it for you. UTP Suite easily adapts to the most diverse requirements thanks to its sophisticated concept and innovative technologies under the hood.

The UTP Template is a ready-to-use template for creating UTP test systems software in TestStand. The UTP Template includes the following features:

• UTP Model Plugin for TestStand
• Basic UTP test system configuration with product and interface sequence examples
• Clean and simple folder structure linked to TestStand
• Useful portable applications