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News Release from: National Instruments | Subject: PXI-8105 controller
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 June 2006
Dual-core processor boosts PXI
performance
A dual-core PXI controller improves the performance of multithreaded applications up to 100% versus single-core PXI controllers with the same processor clock rate.
National Instruments has developed the industry's first dual-core PXI embedded controller with the 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor T2500 for multitasking environments and multithreaded applications The dual-core PXI controller improves the performance of multithreaded applications up to 100% versus single-core PXI controllers with the same processor clock rate
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, the dual-core processor can simultaneously execute two threads, or tasks, within multithreaded applications, such as National Instruments LabView software.
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In NI LabView, engineers can easily develop multithreaded applications by simply using parallel data flow, for example drawing a loop around each segment of the graphical code they wish to execute in a separate thread.
The dual-core processor is also ideal for multi-channel, multi-rate data-logging applications using LabView and National Instruments DIAdem software or Microsoft Excel because the data acquisition and data storage to the hard drive can run in parallel for optimal performance.
The National Instruments PXI-8105 dual-core embedded controller, which delivers the highest performance of any PXI embedded controller, uses the Mobile Intel 945GM Express chipset for maximum performance, flexibility and stability.
The chipset also includes the PCI Express bus to give integrated peripherals on the controller, such as Gigabit Ethernet, the bandwidth required to operate at a full rate while communicating with and processing data from PXI modules using the PCI bus.
Another of these peripherals is an ExpressCard/34 slot, which uses the PCI Express and Hi-Speed USB (2.0) serial interfaces to provide up to 2.5Gbit/s throughput in each direction.
Other standard peripherals include four USB 2.0 ports, GPIB, serial and parallel.
The new controller also features 512Mbyte of dual-channel 667MHz DDR2 memory standard, analogue and digital DVI-I video and a 60Gbyte serial ATA hard drive.
It offers hard drive-based recovery that engineers can use to restore their systems back to factory default if necessary.
The controller is ideal for a variety of applications, including mixed-signal test in consumer electronics, RF test in communications and octave analysis in sound and vibration.
It works with all PXI modular instruments and data acquisition modules.
The NI PXI-8105 controller comes with Windows XP Professional preinstalled, saving engineers valuable time in software installation and configuration.
It integrates with all National Instruments software, including the NI LabView graphical development environment, NI TestStand test management software, NI LabWindows/CVI for ANSI C development and NI SignalExpress interactive measurement software, in addition to other common development environments for automated test applications, such as C, C++, Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual Studio.NET. Request a free brochure from National Instruments ...
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