PXI tester has military applications
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 2/1/2006
Advint has introduced its Puma ruggedized PXI test system for factory-to-field support of military and industrial electronics. The company also announced that the tester is currently fielded by multiple branches of the US military and is in use by various prime contractors.
The Puma provides an open-architecture platform for functional testing of a variety of digital, analog, and RF electronics and avionics subsystems and systems. It supports organizational-, intermediate-, and depot-level test activities.
The Puma employs a single-frame, 19-in. rack-mount system that contains 3U 18-slot PXI and four-slot SCXI chassis and an array of COTS instrumentation. The system uses National Instruments LabWindows/CVI and LabView test programs under the control of NI's TestStand test-management software. The Puma comes with power distribution, UUT power supplies, UUT isolation, and system cooling. It uses MacPanel's Series L2000 interface test adapters to provide a high-density, compact interface to the UUT. www.advint.com.
