NI devices suit extended-temperature operation

National Instruments (NI) has unveiled four extended-temperature versions of the NI Single-Board RIO devices, featuring a -40C to +85C operating temperature range.

These boards provide engineers and developers with low-cost embedded system development options by combining an onboard reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a real-time processor and analogue and digital input/output (I/O), all on a single-board computer (SBC).

The four new NI devices - sbRIO-9602XT, sbRIO-9612XT, sbRIO-9632XT and sbRIO-9642XT - are designed for board-level OEM applications requiring extended-temperature operation, including industrial, robotics, transportation, aerospace and military embedded systems.

'With these new devices and Labview graphical development tools, our OEM customers are able to solve a new set of embedded control and acquisition applications faster than using traditional SBCs and software tools,' said John Hanks, vice-president of industrial and embedded product lines at NI.

The boards include up to 32 single-ended and 16 differential channels of analogue input and up to four channels of analogue output at 16-bit resolution, 110 lines of 3.3V/TTL digital I/O and up to 32 lines of 24V digital I/O.

All NI Single-Board RIO devices feature a 19-30VDC power supply input, an Ethernet and RS232 serial port for communication, three expansion connectors for integrating additional NI C Series I/O and communication modules and non-volatile storage for data logging.

These new extended-temperature-range devices, along with all NI RIO hardware products, can be programmed using the NI Labview graphical system design platform.

Labview tools include all of the middleware and drivers needed to interface with analogue, digital and communication I/O and to integrate web publishing and data-logging capabilities.

Engineers and embedded developers can design, prototype and deploy the real-time and FPGA-based NI Single-Board RIO devices using thousands of built-in control and processing functions within Labview FPGA and Labview Real-Time modules for increased productivity and a faster time to market.

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