Liquid Instruments Unveils GenInst Studio for Custom Test Design
Liquid Instruments has claimed the industry's first test solution that uses natural language prompts to develop validated and customized instruments on demand. GenInst Studio combines agentic AI with reconfigurable hardware to enable engineers to design and deploy application-specific instruments in minutes rather than months. These custom test solutions include specialized measurements, real-time signal processing, and control capabilities.
The company first introduced its generative instrumentation in 2025 with the launch of its Moku:Delta test platform. Building on its first generative test solution, Liquid Instruments' recent $50-million Series C funding round, co-led by Keysight Technologies and Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation, accelerated the development of the company's next generation of AI-enabled test solutions.
"The convergence of agentic AI and reconfigurable hardware creates something genuinely new-the ability to build exactly the instrument you need, simply by describing what you want," said Daniel Shaddock, CEO and co-founder of Liquid Instruments, in a statement. "That's something our industry has never seen before."
Engineers and scientists often face a tradeoff between standard instruments that don't meet their requirements and custom solutions that require specialized expertise and months of development time, according to the company.
To address this challenge, Liquid Instruments developed GenInst Studio with an auditable, agentic workflow and intuitive chat interface that guides users from instrument specification through deployment on Moku hardware. This delivers real-time, low-latency performance with no FPGA expertise required, Liquid Instruments said.
The AI-enabled instrument creation platform delivers application-specific designs, from hardware-accelerated digital signal processing to custom triggering, controllers, and adaptive signal generation, that have not been possible for most companies, according to the company.
Users start by defining their requirements for design, architecture, and validation through a guided specification process. Next, GenInst Studio creates the instrument and validates it against automatically generated tests. Users can then deploy their instrument on Moku devices together with the existing instrument suite.
The company reports that early users have significantly reduced development time for custom test solutions without requiring FPGA expertise from months to a single session.
"GenInst Studio opens new commercial opportunities by making advanced instrumentation easier to adopt, customize, and scale," said Maximilian Dreher, managing director, SI Scientific Instruments GmbH, in a statement. "We see strong potential for it to help reach new markets, accelerate customer adoption, and create new value across research and industry."
GenInst Studio is compatible with all Moku hardware and is available today for Moku users. For more information, Liquid Instruments will host a webinar, Agentic AI meets reconfigurable hardware: Introducing generative instrumentation, on August 5th.
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