National Instruments Corporation

Srdan Zirojevic

Jason White

Scott A Rust

Jucao Liang

A system and method for defining a route through one or more switch devices based on signal requirements and/or resource dependencies. The user may interact with a graphical user interface to specify required signal characteristics for the route, such as signal bandwidth, voltage, carry current, etc. The required signal characteristics may then be used when selecting or determining channels to include the route. The required signal characteristics may affect both automatically selected channels and user-selected channels. For example, if the user specifies a portion of a route and the switch executive core automatically completes the route for the user, the switch executive core may choose a route including only valid channels, according to the required signal characteristics.

Defining a switch device route based on required signal characteristics and resource dependencies

One embodiment of the present invention comprises a system and method for graphically defining a route through one or more switch devices. the user may interact at a high level with a graphical user interface of a visual route editor to graphically create the route. For example, the visual route editor may display icons, diagrams, or other information that visually represents the route, e.g., by displaying information graphically representing the path that the route takes through the one or more switch devices.

Graphically defining a route through one or more switch devices

A system and method for dynamically determining a route through one or more switch devices at program execution time. A program operable to perform a programmatic request to dynamically determine a route may be created. For example, the request may specify a first endpoint (e.g., channel) of a first switch device and a second endpoint (e.g., channel) of a second switch device. In response to the request, the system may dynamically determine a route from the first endpoint to the second endpoint during execution of the program. Information indicating the determined route may be returned to the program.

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