National Instruments’ PXI-6542/PXI-6541 digital waveform generator/analyzers offer 100MHz and 50MHz maximum clock rates and 32 channels with per-channel direction control. Users can software-configure the modules to interface with a broad set of common logic families of 5.0, 3.3, 2.5 and 1.8V. The PXI modules are ideal for interfacing to high-pin-count ICs and electronics in a variety of applications, and they add to the mixed-signal suite of instrumentation. They are built on the company’s synchronization and memory core (SMC) architecture which delivers a timing and synchronization engine, data transfer cores and deep memory. The engine can lock multiple instrument modules together through a set of shared clocks and trigger signals, important for high-channel-count applications or synchronization of digital with analog modules for mixed-signal applications. The architecture preserves system investments by scaling software and test hardware across multiple applications. For example, users can characterize a design using the 10mV programmable levels on the PXI-6552 digital waveform generator/analyzer and functionally test that design in production with the lower-cost PXI-6542 while reusing their existing software. Engineers can quickly create test applications with the modules by using Express VIs in LabVIEW 7.1 graphical development environment and the NI digital waveform editor for creating and editing digital patterns.
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