Interferometer Assembly & Calibration Station – A system including a laser, photodetector, precision motorized mirror, high-speed data acquisition, parts management, and pass-fail result reports.
Fiber Optic Catheter R&D System – A system for experimenting in photodetector speed of response to laser wavelength change, optical switching, and reflection target movement.
High-Volume Resistor Enterprise Test System – A large, thoroughly featured program that measures resistors at wafer level, interfaces to the factory database, manages parts, pass-fail limits, and operators, and generates results reports and SPC charts.
Transistor Test Stations Using Company Database – Five different stations that test GaAs HBTs at wafer level, walk the operator through part selection and structure probing, analyze and graph measurements, and manage part and run numbers, pass-fail limits, and results saving.
Radar Emulator – An electronics box and computer controller that simulates a surveillance radar pedestal including pulse streams indicating rotation speed and position and RS-232 command processing and status reporting. The LabVIEW program included flexible fault insertion and incorrect-data alarms.
Tumor-Killing Probe Measurement System – A system for characterizing the 3-dimensional output profile of an x-ray probe tip source. It included multi-axis motion control of the x-ray source and the ion chamber x-ray detector, flexible displays with overlaid graphs, and automated curve fitting and treatment planning.
Feedback Control System – for varying probe tip x-ray output during radiation treatments.
Plaque-Mapping Catheter Production Test System – for a coronary artery catheter product and its laser, detector, and motor components. Also, a control and infrared spectra acquisition system for the earlier clinical trial version of the product.
Cancer Detection System – A powerful, flexible research system for automatically examining blood slides and counting cancerous cells. The system included microscope stage position and magnification control, microscope camera control, image analysis, and many levels of configuration and calibration.
Blood Analyzer – A prototype electrochemical blood analysis system with pump and valve control, flexible control and measurement sequence scripting, reading of sensors, and display and storage of results.
Automated Radiopharmaceutical Synthesizer – A large LabVIEW program that acted as the "firmware" inside the product. The program controlled syringes, valves, and heaters, measured temperature, pressure, and radiation level, and provided the user interface to control the instrument including real-time animated illustrations.
Weapons Targeting Performance Analyzer – A field-test system characterizing the performance of aircraft weapons laser targeting during flyover. The system recorded laser spot position on a target many times per second using a video camera and real-time image analysis.
RF Exposure Controller for Aircraft Testing – An instrument control, data acquisition, dose monitoring, and session logging system for exposing military aircraft to RF radiation for susceptibility testing.
Antenna Profile Measurement System – A field-test system characterizing the signal strength spatial pattern of military transmitting antennas.
Newspaper Assembly Troubleshooting Monitor – A monitoring and logging system in the printing press room at a major metropolitan newspaper. The system sensed and graphed the speed and phase of different newspaper-grabbing conveyors.
Audio Test System, #1 in Loudspeaker Industry – A production test system for loudspeakers and microphones, testing frequency response, distortion, and other parameters. The system had a highly flexible interface for reference calibration and for configuring frequencies, levels, pass-fail limits, test sequence scripting, and display format.
Gas Spectrometer Production Test System – for complete functional test of a laser, detector, and controller unit, including keeping track of serial numbers and to what point each unit had been tested.
Chemical Analyzer Production Test System – Kept track of pass-fail limits, serial numbers, lots, and yield and displayed and printed neat charts of production statistics.
Ionized Gas Generator Production Test System –for an instrument used in advanced IC fabrication reactors. The system controlled a complex test station containing many valves, flow controllers, sensors, and voltage outputs.
Heavy Motor Stress Characterization System – Included 3-axis control of rotor position, sweeping the 3 axes through steps in any nested order, and display, saving, and recall of readings from multiple load cells and magnetic flux sensors.
Ultra-Precision Moisture Analyzer – A very large LabVIEW program that acted as the "firmware" inside a commercial instrument for measuring moisture content in gases. The program ran on a single-board Pentium computer and managed a 40-panel user interface, each with several functions, while performing continuous data acquisition and curve fitting.
RS-232 64-Port Data Recorder – A system that listens for data from multiple serial ports simultaneously and writes the data to a multi-sheet Excel workbook. It included a flexible user interface for laying out the spreadsheets and specifying the destination cells or columns for each piece of data received.
High-Channel-Count Lab Measurement System – A sensor monitoring system capable of over 100 channels with flexible strip chart display, data save and recall, and flexible channel assignment.
Timed Voltage Levels Generator – A multi-channel, timed pattern of analog voltage sources with flexible pattern construction and viewing tools.
Source-Measurement Product Calibration System – A factory calibration system for a programmable voltage/current source commercial instrument. Also designed the circuitry inside the product and the product functionality and performance.