National Instruments has announced the NI TestStand ATML Toolkit. NI says it will help engineers reduce development and maintenance time by expanding test system component interoperability and increasing test system documentation.

Automatic Test Markup Language (ATML) is an IEEE standard consisting of XML document formats that describe different aspects of a test system, states NI.

According to the company, the new toolkit adds support for the ATML TestDescription standard and improves support for the ATML TestResults standard in NI TestStand. The toolkit can be downloaded from the National Instruments Services Resource centre and is available for free to customers who have the current Standard Service Program.

"The release of the NI TestStand ATML Toolkit demonstrates the National Instruments commitment to the continued support of the ATML standard," said John Pasquarette, Vice President of Software Marketing at National Instruments. "With the NI TestStand ATML Toolkit, developers can use National Instruments software to take advantage of the benefits of ATML with significantly less effort than before."

The NI TestStand ATML Toolkit 1.0 supports version 1.0.1 of the ATML TestDescription standard and version 2.0.2 of the ATML TestResults standard. The NI TestStand ATML Toolkit will be distributed through the NI Services Resource centre for free to customers who are enrolled in the Standard Service Program.

For more information, visit www.ni.com/teststand.