National Instruments Introduces NI Single-Board RIO & a Wi-Fi DAQ Line

By DE Editors

National Instruments (NI; Austin, TX) announced new NI Single-Board RIO devices that offer engineers and scientists a low-cost,  integrated hardware option for deploying embedded control and data acquisition applications.

The eight new sbRIO-96xx devices combine an embedded real-time processor,  reconfigurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and analog and digital I/O on a single printed circuit board (PCB), making them suitable for applications that require flexibility, high performance, and reliability in a small form factor.

NI Single-Board RIO devices expand the NI FPGA-based deployment platform offering which includes PXI, PC and the NI CompactRIO embedded control and data acquisition system that share the NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) architecture. The NI RIO architecture is composed of a real-time processor, FPGA and I/O modules.

NI Single-Board RIO devices feature an industrial 266 MHz or 400 MHz Freescale MPC5200 processor built on Power Architecture technology, the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) and Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA. Plus, the devices offer an operating temperature of -20 to 55 degrees C for use in thermally rugged applications.

National Instruments also announced ten new Wi-Fi and Ethernet data acquisition devices,  which offer easy-to-use, high-performance remote measurements.

The new wireless and Ethernet DAQ devices include built-in signal conditioning and direct sensor connectivity for electrical, physical, mechanical, and acoustic signals.

Engineers and scientists can combine NI Wi-Fi DAQ with the NI LabVIEW software platform to meet their wireless structural diagnostic, environmental and machine condition monitoring application needs by reducing cabling costs and increasing flexibility without compromising performance.

Using the IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless networks, the new NI Wi-Fi DAQ devices stream data on each channel at more than 50Ksps with 24 bits of resolution. Wi-Fi DAQ devices deliver measurement data to a host PC instantaneously for real-time viewing and in-line analysis of dynamic sensor signals. In addition, built-in advanced network authentication methods and 128-bit AES encryption offer the highest commercially available network security and meet the standards defined for use of wireless networks in U.S. government facilities by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

For more information, visit National Instruments.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.