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News Release from: National Instruments | Subject: PXI-7841R, PXI-7842R, PXI-7851R and PXI-7852R
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 May 2008
PXI modules feature FPGA flexibility
Hardware can be graphically programmed with the NI LabView FPGA Module to perform custom onboard processing for inline data analysis and deterministic I/O control.
National Instruments has released four new R Series I/O modules for the PXI platform that are equipped with high-performance Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs The NI PXI-7841R, PXI-7842R, PXI-7851R and PXI-7852R modules each feature eight analogue inputs, eight analogue outputs and 96 digital I/O lines as well as analogue input rates that are more than 3.5x faster than previously released R Series devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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According to Dr James Truchard, National Instruments President, CEO and cofounder: "The unprecedented flexibility of FPGA technology makes FPGAs ideal for both complex embedded system design and high-performance data acquisition and test applications".
"With our continued investment in FPGA technology including the new R Series devices and the LabView FPGA Module, National Instruments is giving test engineers and embedded programmers alike a tightly integrated platform that makes it easy for them to take advantage of the incredible potential of FPGAs".
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Users can achieve 16bit analogue input sampling rates up to 200Ksample/s per channel with the PXI-7841R and PXI-7842R and sampling rates up to 750Ksample/s per channel with the PXI-7851R and PXI-7852R.
Additionally, the new R Series modules are equipped with either a Virtex-5 LX30 or Virtex-5 LX50 FPGA, which deliver improved optimisation capabilities that provide faster code execution and increased LabView code capacity than previous R Series devices.
Virtex-5 FPGAs feature a six-input LUT architecture for substantially improved resource utilisation as well as DSP slices that make it possible for users to implement more complex digital signal processing at faster rates.
The combination of high-speed I/O and Virtex-5 FPGAs on these new R Series modules makes them ideal for high-performance processing and control applications in industries such as automotive, life science and aerospace/defence.
"The industry-leading Virtex-5 family gives designers an unprecedented level of computational performance and system integration capabilities for embedded design and test applications", says Steve Douglass, Vice President and General Manager for the Xilinx Advanced Product Group.
"By incorporating this strategically enabling technology into their new R Series devices, National Instruments is delivering high-performance hardware that can be easily optimised with LabView graphical programming to help reduce design cycles and improve time to market".
Users of PXI instrumentation can customise their applications by choosing from more than 1500 measurement, signal generation, RF, power and switch modules and configuring their instruments in software to achieve the functionality they need.
The new R Series modules extend this customisation even further by incorporating a Virtex-5 FPGA that can be programmed with the LabView FPGA Module to create user-defined hardware.
The LabView FPGA Module simplifies the task of customising hardware through easy-to-use graphical programming that abstracts VHDL code used to configure the FPGA.
LabView also offers prebuilt function blocks and other code optimisation techniques that expedite application development.
This graphical system design approach, or the tight integration of flexible software and commercial off-the-shelf hardware, helps engineers and scientists design, prototype, test and deploy custom measurement and embedded design applications faster and more cost-efficiently than the traditional approach to custom hardware design. Request a free brochure from National Instruments ...
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