Visual Graphical Environment Shortens Test Development Time

April 12, 2004

Test-system development with standards-based graphical programming can be complicated. Agilent Technologies' latest visual engineering environment (VEE), Pro 7.0, streamlines the process. The VEE uses the simple and open Microsoft .Net Framework...

Roger Allan

The .Net Framework is an integral Windows component for building and running next-generation software applications and Web services. It simplifies the programming effort needed to create files, send e-mail reports, and invoke Web pages.

VEE Pro 7.0 features "undo" and "property editing" capabilities in more than one level. As a result, engineers can talk to and gather data from an instrument. One call to a standard .Net class instantly produces a program that would have taken hours prior to VEE Pro 7.0.

"We listened closely to our customers and provided the most requested enhancements to VEE Pro 7.0," says Mark Pierpoint, vice president of Agilent's Measurement and Analysis Software Group.

Agilent's VEE Pro 7.0 is priced at $1495. Upgrades from previous versions of VEE start at $389.

Agilent Technologies www.agilent.com/find/vee (800) 452-4844, ext. 4886

About the Author

Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.