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Transcript of PXI TAC NI Keynotes Victor Notes
Thank you Professor Suen for your excellent presenta5on. Good morning. It is good to be back in Beijing at the PXI Technology and Applica5ons Conference 2011. I wanted to reflect on the topic of Innova5on, and in par5cular Science and Technology innova5on, as it is a very important topic of discussion these days in China. Specially, there is a lot of discussion about encouraging local, Chinese or Indigenous Innova5on.
ETOWN 1.China's first cloud compu5ng server; 2.biggest investment in a single industrial project in Beijing history -‐ the BOE G8.5 produc5on line, to solve China's problems in the LCD TV industry, with its lack of cores and displays; 3.globally unique "Xingwang mode" from the Nokia Xingwang Industrial Park, where more than 20 famous upstream and downstream companies are establishing the most integrated industrial chain in green mobile phones, with Nokia playing a leading role; 4.biggest comprehensive TV program producing center in China, in the XingGuang Media Park; 5.one of the first batch of demonstra5on areas for applica5ons of photovoltaic power in China; 6.biggest wetlands park in Beijing, at the Nanhaizi Country Park; 7.top-‐ranking Chinese bio-‐vaccine industrializa5on base in produc5ve power, quality, and equipment, at the Tiantan Bio-‐Vaccine Industry Base; 8.world's first complete genomic chip detec5ng system for SARS, from Etown (Vector Gene Technology Company Ltd); 9. first na5onal ecological industry demonstra5on park in Beijing; 10.only pharmaceu5cal company in China with targeted medicine, only company expor5ng vaccines to interna5onal markets, and only company with a Japan-‐listed medical R&D company, the Beijing Tide Pharmaceu5cal Co Ltd; 11.China's top in aerospace industry furnace produced in E-‐town (by Beijing Aerospace Wanyuan Coal Chemical Engineering Technology Co Ltd); 12.top fan manufacturer in China (Beijing Goldwind Science & Crea5on Windpower Equipment Co Ltd); 13.most advanced LCD glass substrates in the world, to be produced in Etown, Beijing (Phase II, Corning Display Technologies (China) Co Ltd); 14.best-‐equipped pharmaceu5cal produc5on base in Asia, the Bayer Healthcare Co Ltd; 15.biggest construc5on project in the history of Tongrentang (Tongrentang Tradi5onal Chinese Medicine Moderniza5on Industrial Park); 16.first produc5on line of Varian Associates, outside its home base in the US, in Etown; 17.and, first Chinese herbal prepara5ons produc5on line mee5ng EU standards, at Beijing Yiling Pharmaceu5cal Co Ltd.
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In the most recent five-‐year plan, there is a chapter dedicated to discussing indigenous innova,on. It also calls for innova5on to strengthen its impact on industrial development and the overall economy. This industry upgrade will be achieved by scien5fic and technological innova5on.
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With all the talk of innova5on, it is some5mes misunderstood.
Take for example Thomas Edison, a great inventor from the 19th century. What many don’t know is that they were many failed inven5ons under his name. For example: from the beginning of the mo5on pictures, various inventors akempted to unite sight and sound through “talking” mo5on pictures. In 1895, Edison offered a new revolu5onary product called the Kinetophone: which achieved the desired goal of synchronizing sound with movies. Aper the novelty wore off, the product failed commercially and it was taken off the market. It took 18 years for another product to succeed, where this one had failed.
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As you can see from this example: Great technology alone rarely cons5tutes Innova5on. �
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And here is where the misunderstanding lies:
There is a difference between inven5on and innova5on. Inven5on is the crea5on of new ideas for products or processes; where as Innova5on relates the acceptance in society of these new products or process; in other words it has profitable, sustainable and deployed in large numbers.
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With this defini5on in mind, we can see see how the iphone is a innova5on even though Apple didn’t invent anything new. But what it did well was to bring may technologies together, enhanced by a great sopware ecosystem (the App Store) and thus Apple changed the way millions of people use they smart phones. Making Apple the most valuable technology company in the World. �
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You may be asking, how is this topic of Innova5on relates to PXI? That ques5on is answered by Sir Humphry Davy, a Bri5sh inventor from the 18th century, who had a famous assistant call Michael Farady, who explained how important instrumenta5on is:
Instruments are enablers of science and technology and thus enablers of innova5on.�
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We believe, and I hope you do as well, that PXI is the best form of instrumenta5on. It is true enabler for innova5on and ready in par5cular to support indigenous innova5on: Why?
Because with the PXI architecture, with its modular, both off-‐the-‐shelf and reconfigurable hardware, coupled with an open sopware layer, it possible to now leverage exis5ng knowhow or Intellectual Property (IP) and to deploy your own IP into custom instrumenta5on. �
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PXI’s modular form factor also enables integra5on of latest technologies. From the latest Data Converters, to the most advanced processors, from advanced data buses to FPGA, PXI architecture accelerates the implementa5on of state of the art into instruments.
Furthermore a highly produc5ve programming environment can abstract complexity of using advanced technology, and thus helping engineers to be more proficient; reducing 5me from idea to implementa5on. �
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Here is an example of PXI in ac5on:
“Triple Play” is an important and hot research area in the communica5on industry. It aims to transmit telecommunica5on, network and television signals in the same medium, and will eventually change the way people get access to high-‐speed internet and HDTV. In 2010, even Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao advocated facilita5ng the development of Triple Play.
HiNOC is short for High-‐performance Network Over Coax, is a proposed standard to implement Triple Play in China and is supported by a consor5um of Chinese companies and research ins5tutes, including HUAWEI and Peking University. It is an excellent example of indigenous project.
The idea is to u5lize OOB (out-‐of-‐band, higher than 860MHz) of Coax to achieve high-‐speed network access. A research team in Peking University is leading the effort to develop ASICs and prototype transceivers for HINOC bridge to connect backbone network and coax, as well as for HINOC Modem which is to connect Coax and terminals.
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As the standard is s5ll being developed, and thus there is no turn-‐key test solu5on available. PXI plays a key role here to help the researchers in Peking University to develop customized verifica5on systems in a short 5me. PXI modular architecture with sopware customizable feature naturally makes it an ideal plarorm to quickly construct a valida5on system: either a signal source emula5ng signal into the HiNOC ASIC, or as a signal analyzer to analyze signal out of HiNOC ASIC. The researchers in from Peking NI PXIe-‐5641R IF transceiver module, which has onboard FPGA that can be programmed with LabVIEW, researchers from Peking University implements real-‐5me signal genera5on and processing.
They are also working on leveraging the sopware developed and using PXI as the test plarorm later in the design cycle.
(Note: later in the morning, a senior engineer from Peking University will come on stage to talk about this research project more in detail)
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Triple play project is a good example of indigenous innova5on, as it will not only accelerate the development of informa5on technology in China, which in turn will have a posi5ve social impact, but also generate economic benefits.
Besides next genera5on informa5on technology, Chinese government proposed six other strategic emerging industries in the 12th five-‐year plan. These industries are aiming have a drama5c growth from 1% to 7% in the total Chinese GDP in the next 5 years.
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All these emerging industries have an impact on our life and society. Scien5sts and engineers are involved in every emerging industry, and PXI is helping them to innovate in a more effec5ve way.
Reference: Life science: Advanced Cancer Research with PXI and LabVIEW Case-‐study link: hkp://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/pub/p/id/468
Material Research: Fabrica5ng 3D Microstructure and High-‐Resolu5on Imaging Using NI LabVIEW hkp://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-‐663
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Tradi5onal industries such as automo5ve are also con5nuously benefi5ng from Innova5on. Take the example of hybrid energy vehicle research: The department of Automo5ve Engineering of Tsinghua University has been using PXI in their research projects for a long 5me. Recently they have developed a Hardware-‐in-‐the-‐Loop(HIL) test system based on PXI, helping them verify the func5on of a prototypes of electronic control unit (ECU) for hybrid energy vehicles. What’s more, they use the same sopware tool (LabVIEW) in different stages of the project, from sopware simula5on, to HIL test, then to bench-‐test (台架试验), re-‐using sopware libraries through the research cycle (最大程度重用了软件代码). They research is on going and but they have successfully tested the prototyped ECU in a real vehicle.
(Notes: actually they used PXI only in HIL test stage in this projects, but LabVIEW is used in the en5re cycle.)
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As a conclusion: in the path of innova5on, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
With the PXI plarorm you will leverage the 1,500 available PXI modules from over 50 vendors.
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In par5cular, we at Na5onal Instruments invest heavily on R&D to expand the reach of the PXI plarorm. Many of you know that we use this graph, with its x-‐axis represen5ng sampling rate, and Y-‐axis represen5ng resolu5on. You can chart the improvement of the PXI technology over the years, and it now rivals that of the best stand-‐alone instruments. We recently announce the fastest PXI digi5zer with 12.5 Gsamples/sec, in partnership with Tektronix. Also, we strategically acquire companies to enhance our reach into more advanced applica5ons:
I am happy to announce at the PXI TAC 2011 the acquisi5on of Phase Matrix, which will further improve our exper5se in the RF and Microwave domain with its 26.5 GHz downconverter.
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In addi5on to HW, thanks to the modularity of the Graphical System Design sopware architecture, you can take advantage of the SW toolkits and IP created by many to accelerate your development. You can also add your own IP, and even, using FPGA technology, you can instan5ate the IP into PXI HW modules. �
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And lastly, you won’t be working alone, because for example in the case of Na5onal Instruments we have a local team of applica5on engineers who are experts in PXI and have knowledge of the industry, as well as a partner ecosystem, that can help you accelerate the path to INNOVATION.
Thank you!�
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