NI announces PXI products and enhancements at Productronica
November 15, 2011. National Instruments introduced six new PXI products at Productronica, including a real-time embedded controller, PXI Express system expansion modules, and high-speed data storage products for streaming data to and from disk. These announcements follow the introduction of more than 40 other NI PXI products this year.
The new NI PXIe-8100 RT embedded controller incorporates the Intel® Atom™ D410 processor and is designed specifically for deploying embedded real-time measurement and control applications. By using the new controller with NI LabVIEW system design software, engineers can gain efficiency in a variety of test, measurement and control applications.
The NI PXIe-8364/74 are the first NI PXI Express remote-control modules that make it possible for engineers to interface multiple PXI Express chassis directly to a single host computer using any expansion topology, without requiring complex custom solutions. The modules’ simplified interconnectivity and industry-standard PXI-based architecture increase system design efficiency and overall system performance in a variety of high-channel-count data-acquisition and high-speed automated test applications, including RF and semiconductor test.
NI also announced upgraded NI redundant array of independent drives (RAID) products for high-speed record and playback, RF test, and high-channel-count data acquisition, including the new 24 TB option for the NI HDD-8265 high-speed data storage enclosure. With these new options, engineers can now stream 100 MHz of real-time bandwidth for more than 13 hours continuously. For advanced parallel signal intelligence (SIGINT) and communication intelligence (COMMINT) applications, engineers can combine four NI HDD-8265 modules in a single PXI Express chassis to achieve up to 2.8 GB/s of streaming data to and from disk. Other new NI RAID options include 3TB HDD and 1TB SSD versions of the NI 8260 in-chassis RAID module.