Modular Test Platform Offers Cost-Effective Automation Hardware
To help further accelerate system development and streamline integration, Emerson is expanding access to its NI PXI test platform with new cost-effective, high-performance hardware. The additions make it easier for more engineering teams to adopt scalable, low-cost automated test systems, while laying the groundwork for AI-enhanced workflows.
Without compromising precision or reliability, the latest NI PXI hardware includes high-resolution oscilloscopes, multifunction I/O modules, embedded controllers, and an all-hybrid chassis.
By providing software integration, synchronized measurements, and high channel density, the platform lowers the cost barrier for test system development, leveraging NI software ecosystems like LabVIEW, InstrumentStudio, and TestStand. As a resi test teams to accelerate automation, simplify integration, and build test solutions that evolve with their application needs.
The cost-effective NI PXI products include the NI PXIe-5108 high-resolution oscilloscopes, which provide four- and eight-channel options with a 100-MHz bandwidth, 250-MSPS sample rate, and 14-bit resolution, with a flexible, high-density design to precisely capture more data faster.
The 18-slot hybrid chassis NI PXIe-1081 offers 2-Gbit/s system bandwidth, scaling easily to connect software-driven test systems so that more teams can access critical data. The NI PXIe-8842 / 8862 embedded controllers support Windows 11 and NI Linux Real-Time. Therefore, engineering teams that don’t need a general-purpose interface bus (GPIB) can ensure more accurate and efficient measurements in their workstreams.
NI PXIe-6381 / 6383 18-bit multifunction I/O modules provide advanced measurement performance with 18 bits of resolution and absolute accuracy down to 980 µV, with low-noise voltage measurements across 16 or 32 channels for high accuracy and scalable solutions in automated test systems. A PXI-based test system features a new NI PXIe-1081 chassis, an NI PXIe-8842 embedded controller, and an NI PXIe-5108 oscilloscope for software-driven mixed-signal measurements with InstrumentStudio.
Representing the building blocks of a complete PXI system, enabling better test capabilities, it leverages engineers’ access to modular and configurable systems to meet unique test and measurement needs. The current line of NI PXI products supports the use of AI for real-time reasoning and data insights within test environments.
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Alix Paultre
Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF
Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.
Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.