National Instruments Announces NI PXIe-8880 Controller

National Instruments (NI) has launched the NI PXIe-8880 controller, the industry's first chassis that uses Gen 3 technology. It is equipped with an eight-core Intel Xeon processor E5-2618L v3 and offers a full system bandwith of 24GB/s. This makes it ideal for compute intensive and highly parallel applications such as wireless test, semiconductor test and 5G prototyping, the company states.

To create this controller, NI partnered with Intel to give engineers twice the processing power and bandwidth of previous controllers. It has an 18-slot chassis, with eight lanes per slot and scalability for future systems.

“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.