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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2002
Jason White, Austin, TX (US);
Srdan Zirojevic, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Rust, Austin, TX (US);
National Instruments Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
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.