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NI and Tektronix develop fast PXI digitiser

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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Aug 11, 2009

National Instruments and Tektronix have developed the PXI Express, a high-speed digitiser.

It features more than 3GHz bandwidth, sample rates beyond 10GS/s, data throughput of more than 600MB/s and multi-module synchronisation capabilities.

The PXI Express digitiser will give engineers and scientists a new level of measurement performance and test productivity in demanding high-speed applications such as those found in physics and experimental research, aerospace and defence, communications, semiconductor and consumer electronics industries.

Proprietary Tektronix ASICs and design expertise provide the basis for high-speed signal acquisition with low noise and high linearity, delivering superior signal integrity.

The National Instruments leadership in graphical system design software, proprietary Synchronisation and Memory Core (SMC) technology and expertise in PC-based instrumentation offer high data throughput for faster test execution and precision multi-module timing and synchronisation capability for building high channel-count and integrated test systems.

As part of the NI PXI platform, the new digitiser joins a range of products designed for high measurement throughput using high-bandwidth and low-latency PCI and PCI Express bus technologies.

Engineers and scientists can integrate NI digitisers into test systems comprising any of the more than 1,500 instruments available for the PXI platform, ranging from precision DC to RF.

The new digitiser will integrate with other PXI instruments and NI Labview industry-standard software for instrument control and automation, NI Labwindows/CVI ANSI C software development environment and Microsoft Visual Studio .Net development tools to offer a range of programming options.

The official product release and first shipments of the new digitiser will be available from National Instruments in 2010, with lead user engagements continuing through to the end of 2009.

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