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News Release from: National Instruments | Subject: Productronica display
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National Instruments is exhibiting new software and hardware technologies for developing distributed instrumentation systems at Productronica 2005 in Munich, Germany
National Instruments, a global leader in virtual instrumentation, is exhibiting new software and hardware technologies for developing distributed instrumentation systems at Productronica 2005 in Munich, Germany With open software, an instrumentation system can take advantage of multiple bus technologies, including USB, LAN/Ethernet, GPIB, PCI and PCI Express, depending on the application's requirements for performance, ease of use and distance between nodes
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 27 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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For distributed system synchronisation, NI demonstrates today at Productronica the new NI PCI-1588 interface, the industry's first IEEE 1588 PCI device for distributed synchronisation over LAN.
Using the IEEE 1588 precision time protocol technology, this interface provides a solution for engineers synchronising multiple devices over LAN with submicrosecond precision.
For greater precision in a local system, NI also shows how engineers can use built-in synchronisation features in PXI for shared reference clocks, sample clocks, triggers and events.
For high-performance modular instrumentation systems, NI demonstrates how buses such as PCI and PCI Express can provide both the highest bandwidth and lowest latency possible.
For PCs and laptops with PCI Express and ExpressCard slots, the company is showing new MXI devices that deliver up to 110 MB/s of sustained throughput with PXI/CompactPCI systems - a 40 percent improvement over previous MXI solutions.
For the next generation in industrial high-bandwidth, low-latency instrumentation systems, NI also is previewing the new PXI Express standard passed by the PXI Systems Alliance in September, which increases PXI system bandwidth by 45X to 2 GB/s per slot while preserving backward compatibility with existing PXI systems.
The company also is demonstrating this compatibility between PXI Express and existing PXI modules and backplanes.
For distributed applications with extreme distances between nodes, Labview 8 includes new functionality for sharing information among multiple Labview intelligent nodes across the network with a single consistent interface.
This same technology also can be used between local Labview intelligent nodes, whereas in standard text-based languages or in previous versions of Labview, this communication required significant programming and unique protocols for different nodes.
This innovative new functionality makes developing a distributed application as straightforward as developing an application for a single instrument, so engineers can easily design, distribute and synchronise instrumentation systems.
For more information, please visit National Instruments at Productronica Hall A1, Stand 576. Request a free brochure from National Instruments ...
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