Feb. 17, 2004 -- National Instruments today previewed its new PCI Express-GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) controller board at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), the technology industry’s premier event for software and hardware developers. The first plug-in product in the test and measurement industry based on the emerging PCI Express bus, the PCI Express-GPIB allows engineers to take advantage of the latest PC bus technology to control instruments through GPIB." For more than 20 years, National Instruments has been a leader in bringing the latest PC technologies to test and design engineers," said Tim Dehne, NI senior vice president of research and development.
"As PCI Express gains widespread adoption, NI will offer PC-based measurement products that take advantage of its higher performance to address new applications with virtual instrumentation." PCI Express is a high-performance, low-voltage, differential, point-to-point serial interconnect that improves PCI by providing scalable bus bandwidth. For example, the simplest x1 PCI Express interface provides more than three times the bandwidth of the PCI bus, while an x16 PCI Express interface provides more than a twenty-fold improvement. PCI Express features a layered model that offers backward compatibility with existing PCI applications at the operating system level.
In addition, PCI Express provides much-needed features such as guaranteed bandwidth for demanding data acquisition applications.For more information about PCI Express, readers can visit http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/exd7hj.
About National Instruments
National Instruments ( www.ni.com ) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation -- a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,100 employees and direct operations in 40 countries.
In 2003, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. Readers may obtain investment information from the company’s investor relations department at (512) 683-5090, by sending e-mail to [email protected] or on the Web at www.ni.com/nati .
