Chassis is firm foundation for PXI systems
Adept Scientific
Adlink cPXIS-2100
One of the most highly specified and yet affordable PXI instrument chassis systems to date is available in the UK from Adept Scientific.
One of the most highly specified and yet affordable PXIinstrument chassis systems to date is available in the UK fromAdept Scientific.
The Adlink cPXIS-2100 series combines PentiumIII processing, Ethernet and USB connectivity, a TFT LCD, sevenPXI peripheral slots and power into a versatile 19in rack-mount,portable or benchtop chassis-mounting unit.
For anyone wishing todevelop PC-based test and measurement systems for ruggedreal-world environments, PXI has become the preferred approachworldwide.
PXI (PCI extensions for instrumentation) is an openindustrial specification which extends CompactPCI for test,measurement and automation applications by adding the triggerbus, system reference clock and local bus to provide the systemtiming capability while retaining complete interoperability withCompactPCI.
The Adlink hardware provides top technicalspecifications at a significant price advantage over the olderestablished PXI vendors.
The chassis of the cPXIS-2100 seriesfeatures a 6.4in TFT LCD enabling results to be monitored on-sitewithout the need for a separate monitor.
There is one systemcontroller and seven PXI/CompactPCI I/O slots, with a wide rangeof processor, peripheral and data acquisition modules available.These have some impressive specifications, such as full 850MHzPentium III processing power on the top CPU module, andsimultaneous sampling on the PXI-2000 series multifunction cards.Bundled software with the multifunction cards includes driversfor Matlab, LabView, DasyLab and, interestingly, for Linuxsystems..
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