18-slot chassis
January 1st 2004 A new software-configurable 18-slot PXI chassis from National Instruments enables engineers to programmatically configure precise timing and synchronisation signals between modular instruments.
With configuration and driver software such as NI Measurement & Automation Explorer and NI-DAQ7, engineers can increase overall system performance and accelerate test times by configuring the trigger routing modules on the backplane of the chassis to reserve trigger lines or route triggers to and from any of the chassis three bus segments.
The NI PXI-1045 18-slot chassis has an operating temperature range of 0 to 55C. The CompactPCI-compatible chassis also has a high precision, low jitter 10mhz reference clock with slot-to-slot skew of less than 250 picoseconds for device synchronisation.
The new chassis is suitable for test and measurement applications requiring software configurable triggering, high channel counts and tight synchronisation between high performance modular instruments. More articles from National Instruments UK Limited: | 
