Connect to VXI over Ethernet
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 6/1/2006
VXI Technology's EX2500 lets you control a VXI chassis and instruments over an Ethernet link. This slot-0 controller lets you remotely control a VXI chassis with Cat5 cable over distances up to 200 m. With a fiber-optic link, you can control a VXI chassis and its instrument modules from as much as 10 km away. Data transfer rates can reach 40 Mbps.
The EX2500 is VXIplug&play compliant; a VISA I/O library supports communication with instruments. Thus, you can still use your VXIplug&play instrument drivers and application code. The controller also supports the Agilent I/O Library suite, version 14.1.
The EX2500 lets you convert any of the eight VXI backplane trigger lines into LXI triggers through its front-panel LXI trigger-bus connectors. Therefore, you can initiate a trigger signal from a VXI instrument and have it trigger an LXI-compliant instrument. You can also use the LXI trigger as an intermediary to pass a trigger from one VXI chassis to another.
VXI Technology, www.vxitech.com
