Patents Assigned to National Intruments Corporation
  • Patent number: 8656351
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring a state diagram with graphical source code is described. The state diagram may be created in response to user input. The state diagram may include a plurality of state icons and a plurality of connector elements interconnecting the state icons, where the state icons represent a plurality of states and wherein the connector elements represent transitions between the states. Graphical source code may be associated with one or more of the state icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: National Intruments Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Kodosky, Kevin Hogan
  • Patent number: 8639853
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a system, method, and memory-medium provide for configuration of a programmable waveform that allows for communication with one of a plurality of different target devices. The programmable waveform comprises one or more waveform parameters and one or more waveform lines. The waveform lines may comprise control lines and/or data lines. One or more of the waveform parameters may be set in response to user input, and corresponding signals based on the waveform lines may be generated in order to communicate with a target device selected from a variety of different possible target devices. Waveform parameters may include one or more of: setup time, hold time, lead time, trail time, idle time, clock frequency, clock duty cycle, number of data bits per transmission, number of data lines, pulse width, polarity, and phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: National Intruments Corporation
    Inventors: Aditya K. Rathi, Eric L. Singer, Caleb G. Wells, Yiqi Jiang
  • Patent number: 8634453
    Abstract: A system and method for performing frame and symbol timing synchronization on samples of a received signal that includes a series of frames. Each frame includes a known preamble and payload data. A start-of-frame time is estimated by scanning the received signal samples for the self similarity of two successive preambles. A carrier frequency offset (CFO) is estimated by maximizing a correlation between a magnitude spectrum of the received signal and a magnitude spectrum of a known preamble model. A fine estimate for the CFO is determined by computing a phase difference between samples separated by p repetitions of the base pattern for various values of index p, and computing a slope of a least squares affine fit to the phase differences. Additional operations are performed to find an optimal symbol starting point, to perform carrier phase synchronization and to detect the start of payload data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: National Intruments Corporation
    Inventors: Baijayanta Ray, Nikhil A. Deshmukh