The next year will be an opportunity for engineers and scientists to be innovative and do things differently. There is no doubt that the UK and the rest of the world are facing an economic headwind, with reduced budgets among other challenges. In the face of this, there remains the opportunity to rethink strategies and consider a change of approach, using different architectures and tools.rnOver the next five issues of Electronics Manufacture and Test, NI will examine what can be done differently, by discussing key technologies and trends that are becoming increasingly important; software-defined instrumentation, parallel programming and multicore, FPGA-enabled instrumentation, the explosion of wireless, and protocol-aware test.rnThe adoption of software-defined instrumentation will allow engineers to tackle the need for flexibility in future test and measurement systems. Engineers are already using software-defined instrumentation to achieve new levels of measurement performance and lower test costs by applying the latest technological advancements in order to meet the demands of new application areas, such as wireless and protocol-aware test.
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