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News Release from: National Instruments | Subject: PXI Express instruments and chassis
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 May 2007
Express performance comes to PXI
instruments
PXI Express high-speed instruments and an 18-slot PXI Express chassis bring PCI Express datarates to the PC instrument market.
Available now from National Instruments are the industry's first PXI Express high-speed instruments as well as the industry's first 18-slot PXI Express chassis The new modular instruments include the NI PXIe-5122 100Msample/s, 100MHz dual-channel digitiser and the NI PXIe-6537 and NI PXIe-6536 50 and 25MHz 32-channel digital I/O modules
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The NI PXIe-1065 18-slot chassis offers up to 1Gbyte/s per-slot dedicated bandwidth and a combination of both PXI and PXI Express slots.
The new PXI Express products are ideal for applications such as signal intelligence, spectral monitoring, semiconductor chip characterisation and video test.
"PXI Express builds on commercial PCI Express technology to expand the applications served by the multivendor PXI standard", said Eric Starkloff, National Instruments Director of Test Product Marketing.
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"The addition of high-speed data streaming capability to PXI, while preserving compatibility to the more than 1200 existing PXI modules from more than 70 vendors, has made PXI a leading platform for modular instrumentation".
The new PXI Express instruments add to the wide range of PXI mixed-signal products from NI that include high-speed digitisers/oscilloscopes, high-speed digital I/O, baseband and RF analysers and signal generators.
The new instruments offer the enhanced functionality of high-speed data recording and playback using the latest industry-standard bus, PCI Express, which delivers up to 1Gbyte/s of bidirectional streaming throughput on a x4 PCI Express link.
With the NI PXIe-5122 digitiser (based on a x4 PXI Express link), for example, engineers can capture high-speed analogue signals on two simultaneous channels at 100Msample/s with 14bit resolution and stream the signals across the PCI Express bus at the digitiser's full rate of 400Mbyte/s to the PC memory and/or hard disk.
Engineers can also use the NI PXIe-6536/37 digital I/O modules (based on a x1 PXI Express link) to stream digital waveforms to and from the module at the full 200Mbyte/s datarate.
The NI PXIe-1065 18-slot chassis complements the existing NI PXIe-1062 eight-slot chassis to address higher-channel-density PXI Express-based systems.
The new chassis includes a combination of PXI and PXI Express hybrid slots to accept a mix of both existing PXI modules and high-bandwidth PXI Express modules.
All the new products integrate with a variety of software including the NI LabView graphical development environment, LabView SignalExpress interactive measurement software and NI TestStand test management software. Request a free brochure from National Instruments ...
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