Essential for data-intensive applications

National Instruments (NI) announced a new family of high-performance PXI remote control and bus extension modules with PCI Express Gen 3 connectivity.

PCI Express Gen 3 technology delivers high bandwidth, which is essential for data-intensive applications such as 5G cellular research, RF record and playback, and multi-channel data acquisition.

“As technology converges on smarter devices under test, there is a need to build smarter test and measurement systems that leverage the latest processing and data movement capabilities to lower the cost of test and improve coverage,” said Luke Schreier, director of automated test marketing at NI. “This new family of remote control modules enhances our existing portfolio of PCI Express Gen 3 chassis and embedded controllers and more than doubles the throughput of multi-chassis systems.”

The PCIe-8398 host interface card communicates with the single-port PXIe-8398 or dual-port PXIe-8399 remote control module over a fully transparent PCI Express Gen 3 x16 link, providing sustained data throughput of up to 13.7 GB/s. The second port on the PXIe-8399 allows engineers to directly connect a PXI Express chassis to a single host computer, such as a desktop or rack-mounted PC.

The PXIe-8394 bus expansion module supports peer-to-peer streaming at up to 6.8 GB/s between chassis-separated instruments that support PCI Express Gen 3 connectivity, such as second-generation vector signal transceivers.

The PXI remote control and bus extension module family complements the already-released PXIe-8880 embedded controller and PXIe-1085 24 GB/s chassis, both of which support PCI Express Gen 3 connectivity.