NI expands FlexRIO family
6 July 2011
Test & Measurement
National Instruments has expanded its NI FlexRIO product line with six new adapter modules featuring FPGA-based reconfigurable I/O to deliver enhanced functionality for general-purpose automated test and high-speed digital communication.
The FlexRIO family is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution providing engineers with the flexibility of LabVIEW FPGA technology and high-speed, user-configurable I/O on the PXI platform. The new group of adapter modules includes four general-purpose digitisers, a module for high-speed digital I/O and a high-speed 16-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) from Analog Devices which is optimised for modulated communications.
All NI FlexRIO solutions require two distinct hardware components – an I/O-specific adapter module and a PXI-based FlexRIO FPGA module, which features a Xilinx Virtex-class field-programmable gate array (FPGA). With 15 different NI FlexRIO adapter modules now available, engineers and scientists can directly interface FPGAs to a broad variety of I/O for measurement applications requiring real-time performance, low-latency processing and reconfigurable behaviour.
The modules also integrate with the new NI FlexRIO instrument development library, a collection of LabVIEW host and FPGA code designed to provide capabilities commonly found in instruments such as acquisition engines, DRAM interfaces and trigger logic, along with the associated host APIs. Additionally, the new NI-573xR example instrument driver builds on the code from the instrument development library to create a default FPGA personality and familiar host API for using an NI 573x adapter module as a basic digitiser.
For more information contact National Instruments, 0800 203 199, [email protected], www.ni.com/southafrica
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