Real-Time Control System for PXI/CompactPCI Systems

National Instruments Corporationstruments announced a new real-time data acquisition and control system based on PXI/CompactPCI and LabVIEW RT, the company's graphical programming environment for development and deployment of embedded, real-time applications. With LabVIEW RT, engineers and scientists can now develop their high-speed data acquisition, control, test, and discrete and process control applications on a standard Windows PC. A pull-down menu command is then used to download their applications across and Ethernet network to run domestically and reliable on a PXI/CompactPCI embedded controller.

Once embedded, LabVIEW RT applications acquire analog and digital I/O through National Instruments Corporationstruments data acquisition and signal conditioning modules plugged into the PXI system chassis. Engineers and scientists can easily address their real-time application demands with a rugged, modular PXI platform offering the widest variety of high-performance data acquisition modules; distributed, real-time execution; and headless operation. Data logging, real-time data acquisition, and analysis applications developed with LabVIEW RT or LabVIEW, remotely handle communication and control of embedded LabVIEW RT applications across Ethernet networks.

The PXI controller designed for LabVIEW RT uses the same National Instruments Corporationstruments computer technology used today in PXI systems. Current PXI system users can tranform their existing Windows-based PXI controller into an embedded, real-time engine and achieve reliable, deterministic system performance with a LabVIEW RT upgrade. An embedded PXI controller preinstalled with the LabVIEW RT real-time engine is also available.

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