Newsletter Issue: September 2018
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Continued Support for Your VXIbus Systems
Bustec Releases New VXIbus Slot-0
Many users have existing fully functional VXIbus systems. These systems represent very often substantial investments and most users would like to safeguard these investments, but are faced with the problem of porting these systems to newer operating systems, may it be Windows-, Linux- or Real-time systems. To do so, they often only need a port of the VISA of their existing slot-0s to these new operating systems. But most companies stopped to update the VISA of their slot0s as they are stopping the production and support of these slot0s. Not so Bustec, they are and will remain fully dedicated to VXIbus and released a new Quad-core embedded PC the ProDAQTM 3058. Bustec is still offering a wide range of slot0s, which are all supporting Windows, Linus and RT-Linux.
The ProDAQTM 3058 Intel® Pentium® based embedded slot-0 controller is the first embedded controller to support fully the VXI-1 4.0 interface standard. Using Bustec’s high speed PCI Express to VXIbus interface it supports all VXIbus transfer modes defined in the standard including the new 2eSST block transfer mode with up to 320 MB/sec throughput. It occupies only 1 VXIbus slot. It has a quad core processors, which operates with up to 2.56 GHz. The on-board Intel HD Graphics 405 with 16 execution units and a clock speed of up to 700 MHz supports DirectX 11.2 and video up to 4K/H.265. The HDMI interface on the front panel allows connecting monitors with a resolution up to 3840x2160 at 30 Hz or 2560x1600 at 60Hz.
The ProDAQ 3058 features two USB 2.0 and one super-speed USB 3.0 ports as well as a Gigabit Ethernet interface on the front-panel. It features an internal M.2 slot for solid state drive modules of different sizes. Optional external drives can be connected using the super-speed USB 3.0 connector in the front panel. The optional trigger interface of the ProDAQ 3058 is compatible to the LXI revision 1.3 standard. This trigger interface is an eight channel multipoint LVDS (M-LVDS) signalling system for sourcing or receiving VXIbus TTL trigger lines and CLK10 signals from other VXI devices and LXI devices in hybrid test systems. Devices can be connected in a daisy-chain configuration through separate input and output connectors or in a star configuration through hubs.
A very important feature is the optional possibility to add up to 7 additional VXIbus mainframes via our PCIexpress x4 connection. This connection can be done via copper or Fiber-optic cables using the same connection mechanism. The ProDAQ 3058 supports different desktop and embedded Microsoft Windows operating systems as well as the Linux OS and RT-Linux.
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Intel® Pentium®-based VXIbus Slot-0 Controller ProDAQ 3058
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- Holding Informtest UPCONVERTER VXI 10 GHz
- Holding Informtest Precision measurer IS4 for cable networks testing system TEST-9110-VXI
- ProDAQ 3518 Digital-to-Analog Converter Function Card
- Astronics Test Systems High-Power, Front-Maintainable VXI 4.0 Mainframe 1263HPf
- Astronics Test Systems
High-Power, Rear-Maintainable VXI 4.0 Mainframe
1263HPr
- Talon Instruments™ T940 Digital Resource Module (DRM)
- Racal Instruments™ 3172
200 MS/s Waveform Generator and Dual 50 MHz Pulse Timing Generator
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