Sound and Vibration Software Overview and Comparison

Publish Date: Jan 13, 2016

Overview

National Instruments Sound and Vibration Software provides a complete software solution for many acoustics, electroacoustics,
noise Vibration Harshness (NVH), and machine condition monitoring (MCM) applications. Based on its open analysis capability
and a flexible measurement library, the NI Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite and NI Sound and Vibration Toolkit present a
unique software-based measurement approach to creating customized applications.
Both software packages include the NI Sound and Vibration Assistant, interactive software for quickly acquiring, analyzing, and
logging acoustic and vibration measurements. The Sound and Vibration Assistant introduces an innovative approach to
configuring your measurements using intuitive drag-and-drop steps. Combining the functionality of traditional noise and vibration
analysis software with the flexibility to customize and automate routines, the Sound and Vibration Assistant can help you
streamline your application.
1. Sound and Vibration Software Comparison

Good

Better

Best

Sound and Vibration Toolkit

Sound and Vibration

Measurement Suite

Sound and Vibration

Measurement Suite +
LabVIEW

Application Development Environment

Interactive Analysis on Live
Data

Configuration-Based Setup

Code Generation to LabVIEW

Mixed Measurement Test

Application Deployment
(With License 779875-35)

Test Automation

Extensive File IO Formats

Analysis Functionality
Level Measurements

Octave Analysis

Spectral Analysis

Frequency Response

Distortion Measurements

Order Analysis

Torsional Vibration

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Human Vibration Analysis

Curve Fitting

Probability and Statistics

Advanced Transforms

Differential Equations

Sound Quality Analysis

2. Complete Analysis Function List

Sound and Vibration

Toolkit

Sound and
Vibration
Measurement
Suite

Sound LabVIEW Analysis Sound LabVIEW

and
VIs
and
Analysis
Vibration
Vibration
VIs
Assistant
Assistant
File I/O
X

UFF58 ASCII

UFF58 Binary

Wave (.wav) Files

Spectral Analysis (with Windowing and Averaging)

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) Analysis

Zoom FFT

Subset FFT

Peak Search

Power in Band

Spectrum Utility VIs

X

Frequency Response Function (FRF)

X
X

Coherence

Cross Spectrum

Short-time Fourier Transform (STFT)

Shock Response Spectrum (SRS)

Transient Analysis

Run-Up and Coast-Down

Acoustic Measurements
Sound Level (Leq, Exponential, Peak, Running Leq)

1/N Octave

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A-, B-, C- Weighting Filters

ITU-R 468-4 & Dolby Weighting Filters

ITU-T 0.41 (CCITT) & Bell System Technical Reference 41009

(C-message) Weighting Filters

Vibration Measurements
Single and Double Integration

Vibration Level (RMS, Running RMS, Exponential, Peak, Max-Min, Crest)

X
X

Human Vibration Weighting Filters

Audio Measurements
Harmonics

Distortion (THD, THD+N, SINAD)

Intermodulation Distortion (IMD)

Tone Detection

Spurious-free Dynamic Range (SFDR)

Crosstalk

Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)

Swept Sine

Limit Testing

X
X

Continuous Frequency Sweep (Chirp)

Gain and Phase

Idle-Channel Noise

Dynamic Range

AC/DC Level

Phase Linearity and Group Delay

Sound Quality Analysis

X

Stationary Loudness (ISO 532B) and Loudness Level

Time-Varying Loudness

Roughness

X
X

Sharpness

Tonality

Fluctuation Strength

Order Analysis
Order Power Spectrum

Order Tracking

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Order Extraction (Gabor Processing)

Tachometer Processing

X
X

Angular Resampling
Advanced Analysis
Torsional Vibration

Envelope Detection

Graphs and Displays

Waterfall Plot

Octave Plot

Intensity Plot

Polar Plot

Orbit Plot

Timebase Plot

Shaft Centerline Plot

Specific Loudness

Spectral Map
X

Bode Plot

Data Acquisition
Calibration

Scale to Engineering Units

Measure Delay

Stimulus-Response Test
Broadband

Single Tone

Dual Tone

Discrete Frequency Sweep

X
X

Continuous Frequency Sweep

Waveform Generation
X

Noise (White, Pink)

Single Tone

Multi-Tone

X
X

Continuous Frequency Sweep

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