NI Releases Industry's First High-Speed ​​Instrument for PXI Express Bus Interface (Figure)

National Instruments (NI) has released the industry's first high-speed instrument based on the PXI Express bus interface and the industry's first 18-slot PXI Express chassis. The new modular instruments include the NI PXIe-5122 100MS/s, 100MHz dual-channel digitizer, NI PXIe-6537 and NI PXIe-6536 32-channel digital I/O modules for 50MHz and 25MHz respectively. The NI PXIe-1065 18-slot chassis provides up to 1GB/s of dedicated bandwidth per slot and a mix of PXI and PXI Express slots. The new PXI Express family is ideal for communications intelligence, spectrometry, semiconductor chip characterization, and video test applications.

The new PXI Express instrument adds a wide range of NI PXI mixed-signal products such as high-speed digitizers/oscilloscopes, high-speed digital I/O, baseband, and RF analyzers and signal generators. The new instrument provides enhanced high-speed data logging and playback capabilities thanks to the latest industry-standard bus, PCI Express, which delivers up to 1GB/s of bi-directional data streams. For example, with the NI PXIe-5122 digitizer (based on ×4 PXI Express), users can perform 2-channel simultaneous high-speed analog signal acquisition with 100 MS/s and 14-bit precision and pass PCI at the highest sample rate of 400MB/s. Express transfers the signal to the PC memory or hard drive. Users can also use the NI PXIe-6536/37 digital I/O module (based on ×1 PXI Express) for acquisition and generation of up to 200MB/s update rate.

The NI PXIe-1065 18-slot chassis complements the existing NI PXIe-1062 8-slot chassis to form a high-channel-count PXI Express system. The new chassis includes a hybrid slot of PXI and PXI Express to accommodate the coexistence of existing PXI modules and high-bandwidth PXI Express modules.

All new products in this series can be integrated with a variety of software, including the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, LabVIEW SignalExpress interactive test software, and NI Teststand test management software.