Walk into any test bay today, and there's a good chance you'll encounter racks of individual instruments, all communicating via GPIB (general-purpose interface-bus) ports under the control of a ...

Once upon a time, manufacturing test consisted of collections of rack-and-stack instruments. Engineers attached connectors and twiddled dials to get desired information. The instruments have become ...

LXI (LAN extensions for Instrumentation) is the standard for Ethernet control of intelligent instrumentation. LXI provides a powerful, low-cost bus alternative to GPIB for communication with ...

National Instruments has unveiled a new, 3.6GHz vector signal analyser which it claims delivers best in class rf performance in a PXI form factor. According to the company, the NI PXIe-5665 features ...