NI unveils six PXI based products

National Instruments (NI), a company providing automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software has introduced six new PXI products including a real time embedded controller.

The announcements follow the introduction of more than 40 other NI PXI products this year and further extend the possibilities of PXI across diverse industries.With such numerous product introductions, NI continues its leading innovation in the ever growing global PXI market, said the company.

PXI is an open PC based platform for test, measurement and control.

The company's NI PXIe-8100 RT embedded controller incorporates the Intel Atom D410 processor and is designed for deploying embedded real-time measurement and control applications.

NI PXIe-8364/74, according to the company are the first NI PXI express remote control modules that makes it possible for engineers to interface multiple PXI express chassis directly to a single host computer using any expansion topology, without the requirement of complex custom solutions.

The company also launched redundant array of independent drives (RAID) products for 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.Other new NI RAID options include 3TB HDD and 1TB SSD versions of the NI 8260 in-chassis RAID module, said the company.