Pickering Interfaces Introduces the Second Edition of LXImate
8 April 2008
Pickering Interfaces has published the second edition of its publication– LXImate. The LXImate 130 page book provides an easy to read description of the LXI Standard, product availability, and its evolution, the company said.
According to Pickering, the LXI Standard is accepted as the natural replacement for GPIB, providing an interface that applies the power of the Web to test and measurement. LXI opens up new possibilities for the creation of time aware local and distributed test systems that are simple to configure and put together using standard Ethernet interconnections. In less than two and half years since the publication of the standard almost 500 products have been introduced or upgraded by the major Test and Measurement vendors to comply with the standard, the company said.
The book provides sections on the Discovery process, web page usage, software principals and trigger systems. In addition, sections describe the general principles of the Wired Trigger Bus that provides a low latency trigger exchange system and the IEEE1588 protocol that can gives an LXI test system knowledge of time and can be used to generate time based triggers.
Finally, there is a description of the compliance process used by the LXI Consortium and examples of products that have been introduced that are compliant with the standard.
David Owen, Pickering Interfaces’ Business Development Manager, said, “The LXImate has been reviewed by many senior members of the LXI Consortium and is designed to take the mystery out of adopting a new standard into your test platforms. All of the major portions of the specification are spelled out clearly. When more detail is needed, the complete specifications are on the LXI Consortium’s web site.”
The new publication is a companion to the PXImate, currently in its 4th Edition, also published by Pickering Interfaces.
