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News Release from: Pickering Interfaces | Subject: LXImate
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 April 2008
Booklet outlines LXI Standard
The LXI Standard is a replacement for GPIB, providing an interface that applies the power of the web to test and measurement.
Pickering Interfaces has published the second edition of LXImate The LXImate 130 page book provides an easy to read description of the LXI Standard, product availability and its evolution
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The LXI Standard is a replacement for GPIB, providing an interface that applies the power of the web to test and measurement.
LXI opens up new possibilities for the creation of time-aware local and distributed test systems that are simple to configure and put together using standard Ethernet interconnections.
In less than two and half years since the publication of the standard almost 500 products have been introduced or upgraded by the major test and measurement vendors to comply with the standard.
The book provides sections on the discovery process, web page usage, software principals and trigger systems.
In addition, sections describe the general principles of the wired trigger bus, which provides a low-latency trigger exchange system and the IEEE1588 protocol, which gives an LXI test system knowledge of time and can be used to generate time-based triggers.
Finally, there is a description of the compliance process used by the LXI Consortium and examples of products that have been introduced that are compliant with the standard.
David Owen, Pickering Interfaces' Business Development Manager said "The LXImate has been reviewed by many senior members of the LXI Consortium and is designed to take the mystery out of adopting a new standard into your test platforms".
"All of the major portions of the specification are spelled out clearly".
"When more detail is needed, the complete specifications are on the LXI Consortium's website".
The new publication is a suitable companion to the PXImate book, currently in its fourth edition, also published by Pickering Interfaces.
Copies of the new publication are free.
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