The benefits of virtual instrumentation are increased performance and reduced costs.
Because the user controls the technology through software, the flexibility of virtual
instrumentation is unmatched by traditional instrumentation. The modular, hierarchical
programming environment of virtual instrumentation is inherently reusable and reconfigurable.
Virtual instrumentation applications have encompassed nearly every industry including
the telecommunications, automotive, semiconductor, and biomedical industries. In the
fields of health care informatics and biomedical engineering, virtual instrumentation has
empowered developers and end-users to conceive, develop, and implement a wide variety
of research-based biomedical applications and executive information tools