NI expands FlexRIO series with six new I/O modules
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National Instruments has expanded its FlexRIO product line with six new adapter modules. The devices feature fpga based reconfigurable I/O to deliver enhanced functionality for general purpose automated test and high speed digital communication.
The series now includes four general purpose digitisers, a module for high speed digital I/O and a 16bit a/d converter from Analog Devices. Said to be the industry's fastest, the converter is optimised for modulated communications.
"At 250MS/s, the AD9467 from ADI is the fastest 16bit a/d converter available today," said Tom Gratzek, strategic marketing manager of data converters at Analog Devices. "By combining our high sample rate and resolution with the reconfigurable I/O of NI FlexRIO, engineers and scientists can now attain unparalleled flexibility when deploying algorithms onto acquisition hardware, prototyping communications systems and achieving extremely high performance measurements."
National Instruments says engineers can directly interface fpgas to a variety of I/O for measurement applications requiring real time performance, low latency processing and reconfigurable behaviour. The modules also integrate with the new NI FlexRIO Instrument Development Library, a collection of LabVIEW host and fpga code, designed to provide capabilities commonly found in instruments such as acquisition engines, dram interfaces and trigger logic.
