50% improvement in cooling performance, reduced fan noise

National Instruments announced the PXIe-1095, the industry's first PXI chassis providing 58 W dedicated power performance and cooling capabilities per slot.

This represents a 50% improvement in power performance and cooling capabilities per slot compared to the previously released NI PXI Express chassis. In addition to increased power performance, fan noise in 38 W cooling profile mode recorded a figure of 13 dB, significantly lower than the existing PXIe-1085 chassis, making it NI's quietest PXI Express chassis.

Steve Warntjes, Vice President of Modular Instruments R&D at NI, said, “With the PXIe-1095, which provides 58 W power performance and cooling capabilities in every slot, NI can expand the PXI platform to meet even the most demanding instrumentation requirements of our customers,” adding, “This new chassis not only provides enhanced power and cooling capabilities for FPGA processing applications suffering from power shortages but also offers scalability for high power for future PXI modules.”

In addition to improvements in increased power performance and reduced fan noise, the 18-slot PXIe-1095 chassis features two redundant, hot-swapable 1,200 W power supplies for high-availability applications. It also features PCI Express Gen 3 technology to support high-throughput peer-to-peer or peer-to-disk data transfer applications with an excellent system bandwidth of 24 GB/s.

In addition, timing and synchronization upgrades can be optionally performed, including an integrated OCXO that provides enhanced clock accuracy, an external clock, and trigger routing capabilities. Finally, like all other NI PXI chassis, the PXIe-1095 includes software resources to monitor system status data such as temperature and fan speed.

The PXIe-1095 is a key component of the NI ecosystem that enables engineers to build smarter test systems. These test systems leverage the strengths of over 600 PXI products ranging from DC to mmWave, boasting high-throughput data transfer speeds through PCI Express bus interfaces as well as sub-nanosecond synchronization with timing and triggering. By utilizing the NI platform, supported by an active partner ecosystem, add-on IP, and application engineers, engineers can significantly reduce test costs and accelerate time-to-market while preparing for demanding future test requirements.