NI adds to PXI portfolio

Colin Holland, EE Times -- Test & Measurement World, 11/16/2011 10:49:21 AM

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PRODUCTRONICA 2011, MUNICH - National Instruments has expanded its PXI line with the introduction of a real-time embedded controller, two PXI Express system expansion modules, and high-speed data storage products for streaming data to and from disk. These come on top of the of more than 40 other NI PXI products added this year.

The NI PXIe-8100 RT embedded controller incorporates the Intel Atom D410 processor and is designed for deploying embedded real-time measurement and control applications.

The NI PXIe-8364/74 are PXI Express remote control modules that make it possible to interface multiple PXI Express chassis directly to a single host computer using any expansion topology, without requiring complex custom solutions.  (Read more about these modules.)

NI also announced upgraded RAID (redundant array of independent drives) products for high-speed record and playback, RF test, and high-channel-count data acquisition, including a 24-Tbyte option for the NI HDD-8265 high-speed data storage enclosure. With these options, a system can continuously stream 100 MHz of real-time bandwidth for more than 13 hours.

For advanced parallel SIGINT (signal intelligence) and COMMINT (communication intelligence) applications, four NI HDD-8265 modules can be combined in a single PXI Express chassis to achieve up to 2.8 Gbytes/s of streaming data to and from disk. Other new NI RAID options include 3-Tbyte HDD and 1-Tbyte SSD versions of the NI 8260 in-chassis RAID module.

National Instruments, www.ni.com

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