A Glimpse of NIWeek 2018

NIWeek 2018 featured more than 100 demos. Here are a few of the best.

Charles Murray

June 7, 2018

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A Glimpse of NIWeek 2018
The importance of test and measurement was on display at National Instruments’ annual NIWeek 2018 show and conference, where approximately 3,300 engineers saw the latest in test equipment and software.This year’s show placed a heavy emphasis on solutions for transportation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G communications. Show floor demos included robots for the IoT, light-based systems for vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and air bearings for Elon Musk’s Hyperloop.Here, we offer a glimpse at a few of the demos from the hundred-plus show-floor exhibitors. From air bearings to jump testers, what follows are some of the best.

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Senior technical editor Chuck Murray has been writing about technology for 34 years. He joined Design News in 1987, and has covered electronics, automation, fluid power, and auto.  

About the Author

Charles Murray

Charles Murray is a former Design News editor and author of the book, Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car, published by Purdue University Press. He previously served as a DN editor from 1987 to 2000, then returned to the magazine as a senior editor in 2005. A former editor with Semiconductor International and later with EE Times, he has followed the auto industry’s adoption of electric vehicle technology since 1988 and has written extensively about embedded processing and medical electronics. He was a winner of the Jesse H. Neal Award for his story, “The Making of a Medical Miracle,” about implantable defibrillators. He is also the author of the book, The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1997. Murray’s electronics coverage has frequently appeared in the Chicago Tribune and in Popular Science. He holds a BS in engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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