NI intros high bandwidth PXI Digitizers

NEW DELHI, INDIA: National Instruments today released the industry’s highest bandwidth PXI digitizer, complementing the rapidly expanding suite of performance instrumentation available in PXI.

Co-developed with Tektronix, the NI PXIe-5186 digitizer employs Tektronix, enabling technology to achieve up to 5 GHz bandwidth and 12.5 GS/s sample rates, said a press release.

The company also announced the NI PXIe-5185, which delivers 3 GHz bandwidth along with 12.5 GS/s sample rate. Both digitizers are part of the National Instruments PXI-based hardware and software platform, which provides optimized performance for automated test applications.

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“We are excited about our work with Tektronix to jointly develop a product that combines the strengths of both companies: Tektronix for high-speed digitization and NI for software-defined instrumentation,” said Dr. James Truchard, president, CEO and cofounder of National Instruments.

He added that these new digitizers further demonstrate the impact of Moore’s Law on test applications, bringing higher performance to smaller footprints such as PXI.

“As the world standard in oscilloscopes, Tektronix is committed to delivering technology that meets our customers’ needs, including automated test users whose production test applications require a card-modular instrument format,” said Kevin Ilcisin, chief technology officer for Tektronix.

He added that the customers benefit from their industry-leading signal acquisition technology complimented by world class instrument control via National Instruments, the pioneer of the PXI standard and the world leader in instrument automation.

The digitizers work with NI LabVIEW graphical design software for instrument control and automation, the NI LabWindows/CVI ANSI C software development environment and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development tools for a wide range of programming options, the release added.