XVIML: an extensible virtual instrument markup language

Author

Lingsong, HE ; Zhang Dengpa

Author_Institution

Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2005

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

42

Abstract

In this paper, an assembling mechanism of virtual instrument and an extensible virtual instrument markup language are proposed. Using the Unix pipe mechanism, the virtual instrument application is separated into a group of pipeline components, which are connected together by pipelines. When the measurement data flow through connected pipeline components, the data are processed step by step until the end of pipelines. In the base of pipeline components, the assembling mechanism of virtual instrument is proposed. And a script language is proposed to define the assembling of virtual instrument. The language is created in the base of XML and is composed of XML tags that are used to describe the building interfaces of pipeline components. The language has an open XML structure. New pipeline components and their XML tags can be easily added to the language. To let the virtual instrument platform identify new XML tags automatically, a dynamic script interpreter is also proposed

Keywords

Unix; XML; assembly language; virtual instrumentation; Unix pipe mechanism; XML tag; XVIML; assembling mechanism; building interface; data processing; dynamic script interpreter; extensible markup language; pipeline component; script language; virtual instrument; Application software; Assembly; Buildings; Data processing; Fluid flow measurement; Helium; Instruments; Markup languages; Pipelines; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autotestcon, 2005. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9101-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2005.1609097

Filename

1609097