10/06/2014
Today, automobiles are equipped with an enormous number of ECUs to manage expanded functionality and advanced controls in the vehicle. In a hybrid vehicle, the motor ECU plays an even more complicated role as it manages the interaction between the ...
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10/06/2014
PXI – PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation – is a modular instrumentation standard that is now supported by 70 vendors offering more than 1500 products. While it has made its mark in manufacturing test, its adoption in the design engineering ...
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10/06/2014
Last year, New Electronics took a first look at the developing role PXI has to play in the design environment. PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) has been around for 17 years and is clearly at a stage in its existence where it has ...
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14/05/2013
PXI has taken the world of automated test by storm. In its 16 years of existence, it has grown to dominate manufacturing test for a host of reasons – cost, flexibility, performance being the principal ones. A Frost & Sullivan report from ...
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14/05/2013
Beyond his role as president of the PXI Systems Alliance (PXISA), Loofie Gutterman, pictured, is also president of Geotest Marvin Test Systems, one of seven sponsor members of the Alliance. Gutterman explained how Geotest was one of a number of ...
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14/05/2013
Software always has been a pivotal aspect of modular instrumentation platforms. From the drivers that talk to the hardware, to the application software in which code modules are written, to the test executive that sequences that code, the importance ...
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14/05/2013
Power supply devices, whether applied to general use or industrial computers, play an extremely important role in ensuring operational stability of entire systems. During manufacture of power supply units, quality validation is required before ...
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14/05/2013
The concept of using modular instrumentation at the heart of functional ATE systems was quickly established following the introduction of the VXI platform in 1987. Back then, defining a system interface was a simple matter of selecting your ...
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14/05/2013
Nearly 70% of respondents to the New Electronics PXI reader survey cited lack of knowledge as the main reason why they didn't use PXI. In manufacturing test and automation PXI has become established as a popular and useful platform, but ...
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14/05/2013
There have been many changes in PXI during those sixteen years. It has grown from a handful of very basic modules with limited performance objectives to a stage where there is now a wide breadth of products with steadily improving performance ...
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