Software

The long awaited BrainStem LabVIEW API is finally here!  

Well, kind of...  

Currently, the API has only been completed for the USBHub2x4 and the USBHub3P+. However, the framework has been laid for all BrainStem devices and USB hubs, and we will soon announce when that has been completed as well.  

In this week's video, we show an example of testing LEDs in a board-level functional test system. We used a simple circuit board we created for testing a new light pipe design as an example. The video shows just how easily MTM can be used as an engineering tool and manufacturing test system just by adding of a few test cases.

Products used in this example:

Two example projects for USBHub2x4 With National Instruments

We've recently been getting questions regarding the use of the Acroname USBHub2x4 from within National Instruments TestStand test management software. So we put together two example projects which wraps the BrainStem2 library and provides the critical interfaces you need to do basic things like enabling and disabling a downstream port.

How to use USBHub2x4 and MTM to work with multiple host machines

In short, the best setup for you is determined by the type of handoff you would like between host machines and the flexibility you have to modify those host machines. 

Connecting multiple USB hubs

In this week's video we answered the popular question of: "Can I connect more than one USBHub2x4/BrainStem device to my computer?".  Not only did we prove that the answer is yes, but we also wanted to see exactly how many devices we could connect using our programmable USB hubs.  In addition, we also discussed a few methods for dealing with multiple devices using our C++ and Python API's.

Check out our new YouTube video "Up and running with BrainStem using our Python API".

This video details how to properly configure your system to communicate with our Brainstem modules.  It includes: installing Python, pip, and the BrainStem API (.whl).  Once everything is up and running a basic example using a USBStem module is shown.  Configuration, along with the examples, are shown for both Windows and Macintosh platforms (also compatible with Linux).