NI PXI-4071 FlexDMM Listed Among ‘Ultimate Products’ in Reader Survey for First Quarter of 2005
NEWS RELEASE – CMP Media’s EE Times and eeProductCenter recently listed the National Instruments PXI-4071 FlexDMM among the top 10 most significant new test and measurement products in their Ultimate Products 2.1 program, a report on the user rankings of the best new products introduced during the first quarter of 2005. Released in February of this year, the PXI-4071 FlexDMM is the industry’s most accurate PXI multimeter and helps engineers take measurements ranging from picoamps to kilovolts with DC reading rates of 7 S/s at 7½ digits.
“The PXI-4071 FlexDMM is a high-performance, multifunction 3U PXI module that combines the measurement capability found in two common test instruments, a high-resolution digital multimeter and a digitizer,” said Eric Starkloff, NI director of product marketing for modular instrumentation and instrument control. “Its superior speed, accuracy and functionality make it an excellent fit for use in automated tests on both the production floor and in an R&D environment. We are excited that EE Times editors and readers share our vision of the performance gains this product can deliver.”The NI PXI-4071 FlexDMM features a 7½-digit (26 bits) digital multimeter and an 1.8 MS/s isolated digitizer.
It offers fast, accurate voltage measurements from ±10 nV to ±1000 V as well as resistance measurements from 10 megohms to 5 gigohms. It uses a solid-state current shunt configuration that offers 8 DC current ranges from 1 µA to 3 A and 6 AC rms current ranges from 100 µA to 3 A.
This capability gives engineers the flexibility, resolution, functionality and isolation required for complex applications such as fuel-cell testing, leakage measurements, IV curve tracing and data converter linearity testing.Now in its second year, Ultimate Products is a product peer review program developed by EE Times and eeProductCenter to survey for the most popular products in seven categories – analog ICs; processors and memory; interconnect, passive and electromechanical components; logic and programmable logic; power; RF and microwave; and test and measurement. Working engineers then rated these products using an electronic ballot, with ratings based on technical significance and the likelihood of the engineer using the product.
“NI not only offers a dazzling array of modular instruments – instruments for making measurements anywhere from DC into the microwave domain – but it’s also constantly dishing up tantalizing new products such as this new 3U-sized single slot PXI/cPCI 7½ -digit DMM,” said Alex Mendelsohn, senior technical editor for eeProductCenter. “When you consider the PXI-4071’s price of less than $2,500 USD, it shapes up as a DMM that’s likely just at home making automated tests on the factory floor as it is in the lab.”
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About EE Times and eeProductCenter
EE Times ( www.eetimes.com ) is a weekly electronics industry newspaper that reaches more than 150,000 design and development engineers and technical managers.
Established in 1972, EE Times promotes the mission of providing engineers and technical managers with timely, relevant news, analysis and opinion – regarding both technology and business – to help them keep their fingers on the pulse of the industry. eeProductCenter (www.eeproductcenter.com), created by the editors of EE Times, is a comprehensive online resource for new product announcements and reviews of the latest integrated circuits and electronics components.
About National Instruments
National Instruments is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,500 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries.
For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.