ITC/USA 2006 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Second Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 23-26, 2006 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / The quantity and types of measurements and measurement instrumentation required for a test are growing. This paper describes a methodology to define and program multi-vendor instrumentation using abstraction models in a database that allows new instrumentation to be defined rapidly. This allows users to support multiple vendors’ systems while using a common user interface to define instrumentation networks, bus catalogs, measurements, pulse code modulated (PCM) formats, and data processing requirements.