National Instruments is offering PXI chassis and controllers based on PCI Express signalling, which deliver up to 1Gbyte/s per-slot dedicated bandwidth.

Supporting the latest PXI specification, which defines PXI Express to increase PXI bandwidth by 45 times, the PXIe-1062Q eight-slot chassis offers up to 1Gbyte/s per-slot dedicated bandwidth and a mix of PXI and PXI Express slots, similar to modern PCs, which provide both PCI and PCI Express slots.

The chassis includes a PXI Express system slot, a PXI Express slot with system timing capabilities and four PXI peripheral slots. It also provides two PXI Express hybrid slots that accept both PXI and PXI Express modules.

The PXIe-8103 embedded controller includes a 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium M 760 processor and offers 250Mbyte/s per-slot dedicated bandwidth up to 1Gbyte/s of total system bandwidth.

Designers can also use the MXI-Express for PXI Express controllers, the PXIe-PCIe836x and the PXIe-ExpressCard8360, for PC control of PXI Express systems with up to 250Mbyte/s of cabled system bandwidth.

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