Adlink Technology is announcing a new PXI Express chassis for applications requiring enhanced bandwidth and higher density and capacity. Adlink's PXES-2780, an 18-slot PXI Express chassis with 10 hybrid peripheral slots, provides a configurable PCIe switch fabric, enabling configuration with two-link ×8, and four-link ×4 PXI express deployments, allowing full utilisation of the PCIe gen2 bandwidth. Featuring fast data throughput, flexible configuration, innovative structure, and intelligent management functions, the PXES-2780 meets the needs of a variety of testing and measurement applications, such as wireless and RF testing.
Adlink's PXES-2780 18-slot PXI Express chassis provides one system slot, one system timing slot, 10 hybrid peripheral slots, and six PXI Express peripheral slots, for up to 8 GB/s system bandwidth and 4 GB/s slot bandwidth for dedicated peripheral slots. Support for 2-links ×8 deployment by a configurable PCIe switch fabric eases higher bandwidth system upgrades. The 10 hybrid slots preserve backward compatibility to accept PXIe/PXI/cPCIe/cPCI modules, providing flexibility in PXI and PXI Express module slot replacement, reducing the costs of system upgrade.
The PXES-2780's structural design delivers high availability in reliable testing systems, and built-in high-quality reference instrumentation clocks for module synchronisation ensure performance of modules from 3rd party vendors. The cooling system, dissipating 38.2W for each peripheral slot, and a high-quality independent power module for all rails, together maximise operational reliability. For noise-sensitive environments, the PXES-2780 presents a low operating noise level of 46.3dBA at room temperature.
There is built-in intelligent chassis management, enabling communication with embedded controller via SMBus, or remote management from a remote system via a standard RS-232 port. With Adlink's software-configurable "PXES-2780 Intelligent Management Interfac", users can easily monitor and manage test equipment, whether bench-top system or connected external test instruments, including settings for the PCIe switch fabric, fan speed, chassis status monitoring and reporting, remote chassis power on/off, and notification when user-configured limits are met.
Catherine Wu, Product Director of Adlink's Measurement and Automation Product Segment, notes: "The Adlink PXES-2780 PXI Express chassis' enhanced bandwidth, higher density, and capacity are typically designed for multi-channel testing applications. As an example, for customers who require a dual channel signal analyser for RF/Microwave signals, Adlink's 18 slot PXES-2780 chassis can accommodate large numbers of modules to test dual DUT at the same time, saving space and increasing testing system efficiency."
The PXES-2780 follows the Q1 2012 release of the Adlink PXI/PXIe high bandwidth product family for functional test applications. For more Adlink PXI/PXIe product information, please visit www.adlinktech.com/pxi.