NI introduces PXI Express chassis and controllers
By Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 6/1/2006
National Instruments has released what it calls the industry's first PXI chassis and controllers based on PCI Express signaling. The company says these PXI Express products are ideal for high-channel-count, high-throughput, or multimodule applications, such as IF streaming, mixed-signal, and image acquisition. (PXI Express integrates PCI Express signaling into the PXI standard.)
The NI PXIe-1062Q chassis offers up to 1-Gbyte/s per-slot dedicated bandwidth and eight card slots: a PXI Express system slot, a PXI Express slot with system timing capabilities, four PXI peripheral slots, and two hybrid slots that accept both PXI and PXI Express modules. The NI PXIe-8103 embedded controller includes a 2.0-GHz Intel Pentium M 760 processor and offers 250 Mbytes/s per-slot dedicated bandwidth for up to 1 Gbyte/s of total system bandwidth.
Other available controllers include the MXI-Express for PXI Express controllers, the NI PXIe-PCIe836x, and the NI PXIe-ExpressCard8360. These controllers offer desktop PC and laptop computer control of PXI Express systems with up to 250 Mbytes/s of cabled system bandwidth.
The new PXI chassis and controllers work with all existing PXI modules and software. Engineers can use existing code written for NI's LabView, LabWindows/CVI, and Measurement Studio. www.ni.com.
