Date: 06/08/2009

High bandwidth PXI Digitizer jointly developed by NI and Tektronix

The T&M experts National Instruments (NI) and Tektronix have jointly developed PXI Express digitizer. The PXI Express digitizer features 3 GHz bandwidth, sample rates of >10 GS/s, data throughput > 600 MB/s and multi-module synchronization capabilities.

"National Instruments is excited to work with Tektronix and bring their core signal acquisition technology to the PXI platform," said Dr. James Truchard, president, CEO and cofounder of National Instruments. "We have worked for many years to deliver productivity improvements to engineers in automated test through LabVIEW and PXI, and this new module represents the highest performance acquisition capability that we've delivered in this platform to date."

"Tektronix co-innovation with National Instruments on this performance-leading digitizer is yet another example of our continued technology leadership and commitment to innovation," said Amir Aghdaei, president of Tektronix. "As the industry leader, we remain focused on delivering solutions that address the critical test and measurement needs of our customers."

The official product release and first shipments of the new digitizer are planned for 2010, to know further visit www.ni.com/tek.

The know about the companies developing products supporting PXI standards visit http://www.pxisa.org/Products.html

There is also a nice article providing tutorial kind of introduction to PXI digitizers comparing digitizers available from leading PXI digitizer companies such as Lecroy, Agilent, Aeroflex, Adlink and such companies. The article link is http://archive.evaluationengineering.com/archive/articles/0804/0804digitizers.pdf

There is also another interesting article for selecting right PXI digitizer at, www.tmworld.com/article/CA6252664.html