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1U Half-Rack LXI Card Provides Switching and Control
Data Capture Systems Support up to Eight SATA Drives
LXI is the next-generation, Ethernet LANData capture and playback is essential to based modular architecture standard for the military PXI users for high-performance automated test systems managed by the LXI measurement and automation. Conduant, Consortium. LXI is catching on fast among a developer of direct-to-disk, long duration military designers, which is not surprising recording and playback systems, has considering the military’s growing affection announced the availability of products for toward Ethernet. PXI bus data capture supporting up to eight Helping to build out the product offerings Serial ATA disk drives. The StreamStor PXIin the nascent LXI architecture, Agilent 808 real-time recorder and playback disk Technologies announced seven new LXI Class controller and Big River DM4 1U rackmount C instruments that are the industry’s first chassis combine to deliver 200 Mbytes/s of LXI Unit (as defined by the LXI Consortium) sustained performance, reliability and security in switching and control in a 1U, half-rack for laboratory and bench-top instrumentation instrument form-factor. applications. Conduant’s PXI disk controller The Agilent L4400 Series provides compatibility with National of switching and system Instruments’ LabVIEW software and PC-based control instruments are instrumentation hardware. Serial output small, industry-standard from one StreamStor PXI-808 disk controller instruments that can connected to two DM4 units will accommodate be placed wherever the up to two Tbytes of online data storage. application requires. The Conduant’s Big River Recorders provide unit’s remote capabilities recording and playback technology in and graphical Web industrial strength portable or rackmount interface reduce setup and enclosures. All systems are factory configured troubleshooting time for with a Conduant StreamStor controller, engineers building design disk drives and motherboard/operating d verification and functional system or PCI/PXI expansion systems. When test systems in the aerospace/ Conduant’s direct-to-disk StreamStor and Big exploration River recording technology is combined with her your goal defense, communications, medical and LabVIEW and PXI, engineers can generate and peak directly computer industries. The Agilent L4400 Series instruments are al page, the high-performance instruments that allow t resource. engineers to buy only what they need and easily chnology, and products add to it when their application changes. The Ethernet interface allows for simple connection to the PC or to a network for access across an ted engineering workgroup. The fully featured graphical Web interface goes beyond the LXI standard and provides full control of the instrument through a standard Web browser. For example, engineers can use the Ethernet connection and the unit’s graphical Web acquire complex signals for extraordinarily mpanies providing solutions now access and control the interface to remotely long time periods. With up to 2 Tbytes of instrument fromand anywhere onWhether the network. memory oration into products, technologies companies. your goal is to research the depth, latest this solution opens up a new This enables to monitor a test setup; world of terabyte instrumentation for both plication Engineer, or jump to a engineers company's technical page, the goal of Get Connected is to put you close and scan switches; view commands rugged industrial and performance research vice you requireopen, for whatever type of technology, that gone across applications. The StreamStor PXI-808 disk nies and products youhave are searching for. the bus; and troubleshoot an application via awww.cotsjournalonline.com/getconnected standard Web browser. controller is now available for $7,310. The Big The Agilent L4400 Series switches and control River DM4 rackmount chassis supporting instruments are priced between $1,506 and Serial ATA drives is available for $2,860. $2,800 and are available now.
Agilent Technologies Palo Alto, CA. (650) 752-5000. [www.agilent.com].
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Conduant Longmont, CO. (303) 485-2721. [www.conduant.com].
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3U PXI Board Family Serves Up Digital I/O Feast Complex automatic test requirements are far from rare in the military realm. Feeding that need, the GX5280 Series from Geotest are highperformance, cost-effective 3U PXI dynamic digital I/O boards with 32 TTL input or output channels and 32 LVDS input or output channels. The GX5280 Series offers 512 Mbytes of onboard memory and supports test rates up to 200 MHz. The single board design supports both master and slave functionality without
the use of add-on modules. The GX5280 Series supports selectable I/O levels of 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V, or 5V (TTL, LVTTL, CMOS, LVCMOS). In addition, the GX5282 and GX5283 also support 32 differential channels for LVDS, M-LVDS, or LVDM logic families. The TTL/LVTTL interface utilizes a programmable voltage source that sets the output logic levels from 1.4V to 3.6V. Programmable thresholds of 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V or 3.3V (5V compatible) are supported for input signals. Recommended operating input voltage range is from 0V to 5.5V. The GX5282 and GX5283 can operate as stand-alone cards or with up to seven additional slave boards, providing a total of 256 synchronous channels. The GX5281 provides 128 Mbytes of total memory with 32 Mbits per channel while the GX5282 provides 256 Mbytes of total memory with 64 Mbits per channel. The GX5283 has 512 Mbytes of total memory. Programmable I/O width allows trading vector width for vector depth. The GX5283 supports 128 Mbits per channel when in 32 channel configuration, and is programmable down to a width of 1 channel with a depth of 4 Gbits. Widths of 32, 16, 8, 4, 2 and 1 channel(s) are supported. All GX5280 Series boards provide programmable TTL/ LVTTL output clocks and strobes, and support external clock and strobe. Programmable PLLs (phase locked loop) provide configurable clock frequencies and delays. The GX5283 additionally provides a LVDS output clock.
Geotest-Marvin Test Systems Irvine, CA. (949) 263-2222. [www.geotestinc.com].