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Podcast describes LXI
October 13, 2006
Agilent Technologies has posted a Podcast on LXI technology. In the Podcast, Agilent marketing engineer Chris Van Woerkom describes LXI as representing a “major break” from instrument architectures based on GPIB or card cages. Contrasting LXI with GPIB, he says that using plain old vanilla LAN to connect instruments is economical—enabling users to replace a $500 GPIB controller with a $100 LAN switch and each $100 GPIB cable with a $3 Ethernet cable. He notes that the standard, first proposed in September 2004 and issued in release 1.0 in September 2005, has as of September 2006 the support of 50 companies who have introduced more than 150 LXI-compatible products in 29 instrument families. In the Podcast he also comments on instrument Web pages, remote instrument troubleshooting, migration paths, LXI instruments’ IVI software drivers, and the 1-EIA-unit-high half-rack-width basic physical configuration.
You can find the 13-minute audio program here.
Posted by Rick Nelson on October 13, 2006 | Comments (0)
