Pickering Interfaces Introduces the Second Edition of LXImate
CLACTON ON SEA, UK , April 2008
Pickering Interfaces has published the second edition of LXImate, a 130-page book that provides an easy-to-read description of the LXI Standard.
The LXI Standard is accepted as the natural replacement for GPIB, providing an interface that applies the power of the Web to test and measurement. LXI opens new possibilities for the creation of time-aware local and distributed test systems that are simple to configure and put together using standard Ethernet interconnections. In little more than two years since the publication of the standard almost 500 products have been introduced or upgraded by the major test and measurement vendors to comply with the standard.
The book provides sections on the discovery process, Web page usage, software principals, and trigger systems. In addition, sections describe the general principles of the wired trigger bus that provides a low-latency trigger exchange system and the IEEE1588 protocol that can gives an LXI test system knowledge of time and can be used to generate time-based triggers. Also included are a description of the compliance process used by the LXI Consortium and examples of products compliant with the standard.
David Owen, Pickering Interfaces' business development manager, said "The LXImate has been reviewed by many senior members of the LXI Consortium and is designed to take the mystery out of adopting a new standard into your test platforms. All of the major portions of the specification are spelled out clearly. When more detail is needed, the complete specifications are on the LXI Consortium's website."
The new publication is a companion to the PXImate, a book currently in its 4th edition and also published by Pickering Interfaces.
Copies of the
new publication are free and can be ordered at
www.pickeringtest.com/lximate
or by contacting a local Pickering Interfaces Sales office.
About Pickering Interfaces
Pickering Interfaces is a market innovator in signal switching and conditioning for a broad range of applications and architectures, with a large range of switching cards for PXI, LXI, PCI, VXI, and GPIB applications. Pickering Interfaces has provided solutions to both commercial and military applications. In addition, Pickering's range of instrumentation provides innovative test solutions to users and integrators of modular test systems. Pickering Interfaces operate globally with direct operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, France, and Czech Republic; engineering support in China; and additional representation in countries throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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www.pickeringtest.com