National Instruments Launches Xeon-Based PXI Embedded Controller

National Instruments (NI) has launched the NI PXIe-8880 controller, which is based on the Intel Xeon processor and the PXIe-1085 chassis. This makes it the industry’s first chassis that uses PCI Express Gen 3 technology, the company states.

With the eight-core Intel Xeon processor E5-2618L v3 and system bandwidth of 24GB/s, this device is ideal for computationally intensive and highly parallel applications. This includes wireless testing, semiconductor testing and 5G prototyping. Users of previous generation controllers can replace old hardware with the NI PXIe-8880 and see up to double the performance in their test and measurement applications, according to NI.

“The use of the latest Intel Xeon processors is a new milestone for our collaboration with NI,” said Shahram Mehraban, director of market development for Industrial IoT at Intel. “The Internet of Things requires the highest possible processing power to reduce time to market and lower the cost of test, and NI’s approach with PXI is critical toward that goal.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.