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News Release from: National Instruments | Subject: NI 8352 and NI 8353 controllers
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 November 2007
Controllers provide large, sustainable
bandwidth
The NI 8352 and NI 8353 controllers make it easy to achieve sustainable I/O bandwidth of up to 832Mbit/s when bundled with a MXI-Express kit.
National Instruments has released the NI 8352 and NI 8353 high-performance, multicore-based, server-class controllers for use in PXI or PXI Express systems The NI 8352 and NI 8353 rack-mount controllers can be bundled with the appropriate MXI-Express or MXI-4 remote controllers for remote control of PXI or PXI Express chassis
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The controllers offer high computing performance and make it easy to achieve sustainable I/O bandwidth of up to 832Mbit/s when bundled with a MXI-Express kit.
With standard redundant array of independent disk (RAID) - configured hard drives for Windows-based systems, these controllers are suitable for high-end test and measurement applications.
The new NI 8352 and NI 8353 rack-mount controllers are based on the Intel dual-core Core 2 Duo and quad-core Core 2 Quad processors, respectively.
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These multicore processors are designed to simultaneously execute multiple computing tasks on separate CPU cores.
Using the multithreaded nature of NI LabView software, test engineers can scale applications based on the total available number of cores and can benefit from faster, more flexible applications.
These new controllers also work with a variety RAID storage configurations with multiple SATA II hard drives that support both RAID 0 (stripped) and RAID 1 (mirrored) configurations.
RAID defines data storage schemes that divide and/or replicate data among multiple hard drives to provide increased reliability and/or increased file I/O performance.
The new rack-mount controllers have up to four 250Gbyte hard drives with a maximum capacity of 1Tbyte and data read/write rates of up to 200Mbyte/s, a significant increase over the previous controllers.
With these benefits, test engineers can record and playback data faster and for longer durations.
Also available is the NI 8353 RT controller, a version of the NI 8353 multicore-based controller that works with the LabView Real-Time operating system.
The NI 8353 RT takes advantage of the available quad cores on the Intel processor to increase performance and determinism for various real-time applications.
With this enhancement, test engineers can build PXI or PXI Express- based test, measurement and control applications with real-time response and high determinism.
Because of the modularity of PXI and open development environment of LabView, test engineers can also create a custom real-time embedded solution using the NI 8353 RT controller with any number and combination of PXI/PXI Express plug-in modules.
This makes it possible to achieve deterministic, reliable and real-time performance for a range of applications. Request a free brochure from National Instruments ...
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