Introduction to LXI standard Available for the Asking

April 4th, 2008

Pickering Interfaces has published the second edition of its successful publication– LXImate. The LXImate 130 page book provides an easy to read description of the LXI Standard, product availability, and its evolution.

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 up 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 less than two and half 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. Finally, there is a description of the compliance process used by the LXI Consortium and examples of products that have been introduced that are compliant with the standard.

The new publication is a perfect companion to the PXImate, book currently in its 4th Edition, also published by Pickering Interfaces.

Copies of the new publication are free and can be obtained by ordering from our web site at www.pickeringtest.com/lximate or by contacting your local Pickering Interfaces Sales office.

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