NI Measurement Studio is a set of test and measurement components built by

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, that integrates into the

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environment. It includes extensive support for accessing instrumentation hardware. It has drivers and abstraction layers for many different types of instruments and buses are included or are available for inclusion. Measurement Studio includes a suite of analysis functions, including curve fitting, spectral analysis,

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s (FFT) and digital filters, and visualization. It also includes the ability to share variables and pass data over the internet with network shared variables.

History

Measurement Studio was introduced in February 2000 by

to combine its text-based programming tools, specifically:

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, Component Works ++, Component Works. Measurement Studio 7.0 adopted support for .NET and allowed for native .NET controls and classes to integrate into

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. As of Measurement Studio 8.0.1, support for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 framework have been included, with support for

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first adopted in version 8.1.1. Current version of Measurement Studio drops support for multiple versions of Visual Studio including 2008, 2005, .NET 2003 and 6.0. Measurement Studio includes a variety of examples, to illustrate how common

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, DAQMX, analysis, and DataSocket applications can be accessed.

Related software

National Instruments also offers a product called

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, which offers many of the test, measurement and control capabilities of Measurement Studio. National Instruments also offers

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Related software

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