Design of the Instrument Soft Panel Using Windows Presentation Foundation

In order to meet new demands on software designing in the field of testing instrument, this paper implements an instrument soft panel by WPF programming method using Microsoft Visual Studio. The appearance of the soft panel embodies WPF applications´ advantages and the soft panel has the utility of controlling HITPE101 data acquisition module through hardware drivers based on VISA. Finally an auto-test system is built to verify the soft panel operates correctly in the design.