“Reflective memory is a technology that uniquely enables local area networks in real time, where each device always has a local, up-to-date copy of the shared memory pool,” said Wayne McGee, director of product management for GE Intelligent Platforms. “These specialized networks are specifically designed to provide highly deterministic data communications and deliver the firm, time-sensitive performance required for a variety of sophisticated, demanding distributed simulation and industrial control applications. As such, reflective memory is a great fit for National Instruments’ potential applications and can help NI achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.”.
“Our business is about helping engineers and scientists efficiently design, prototype, and deploy systems for test, control, and embedded design applications,” said Ian Fountain, Senior Manager for Real-Time Test Platform at National Instruments. “Our customers are continuously developing innovative technologies that impact millions of people. Adding GE’s reflective memory to our NI VeriStand platform will help us deliver the network performance and reliability our customers demand.”.
NI VeriStand is a software environment designed to create real-time test applications more efficiently. It allows the configuration of a multi-core real-time engine ready to execute tasks including analog, digital bus, communication, and FPGA-based I/O interfaces; multi-file, triggerable incident logging; real-time stimulus generation; computed channels; and alarm triggering events and alarm response routines.
GE's reflective memory solutions include nodes for VME, PCI and PCI Express, as well as in PMC form factor, along with a reflective memory hub that enables optimal management of reflective memory networks.
