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Products with protocol decoding capabilities, like Virtual Bench for example, should feature a protocol word trigger capability.

For Example while debugging SPI on Virtual Bench with MSO it would be interesting to trigger if the 16 Bit Word mathches b001x0010x0000110 or h0A0A. This is a fairly common capability in the market. (http://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/5990-3925EN.pdf)

It would be nice to have also on 657x with the possibility of exporting on on PXI_TRIGx to synch up other instruments or even better, but more complex I understand, on 51xx scopes.

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Filippo

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Yes, it sounds silly, but hear me out. It might be a worthwhile idea.

There's lots of Minecraft mods based around building factories and setting up systems to automate them. If players could use hardware from NI's product lineup, and program it over a virtual network the same way one would program the real thing, it could be a great way to introduce hobbyists to it, and give them some amount of experience that could carry over to working with actual hardware. A player could craft a PXI chassis and controller, add a redstone interface module or something like that, as well as craft a router that connects the equipment to a virtual network adapter. Also add a touch panel for good measure. Then you could use LabVIEW to deploy code to the in-game hardware.

I've never tried using LabVIEW with Minecraft in any way so this might not work well, but it might. If so, now that Community Edition is available, it's never been a better time!