National Instruments has rolled out PXIe-8108, a new embedded controller developed to reduce test times for PXI Express- and CompactPCI Express-based automated test systems.
The new embedded controller, which comes with 2.53GHz Intel Core2 Duo T9400 processor, 800MHz DDR2 memory and 1GB/s total system bandwidth, is developed for RF and wireless test applications, high-throughput data acquisition systems and other applications that require analysis, signal or image processing.
According to National Instruments, engineers can use this new 3U embedded controller in any PXI Express chassis to create a PC-based platform for test, measurement and control applications.
The company claims that the new embedded controller optimises RF and wireless test applications and enables engineers to increase their controller investments over similar systems based on company’s previous embedded controllers.
The LabVIEW graphical system design software, a development environment that supports multithreaded applications, allows the use of the Intel Core2 Duo T9400 processor’s dual cores in the embedded controller to separate tasks into individual threads and execute those threads. This functionality is expected to allow engineers to utilise the processor’s computational ability to optimise processing load and reduce test times.
A PXI Express system, incorporating the new embedded controller, reportedly provides enhanced timing and synchronisation features including a 100MHz differential system clock, differential signalling and differential star triggers.
