NI Euphoria

After NI Week I'm excited about work, excited about development, excited about the possibilities. I talked to some NI hardware people and I think I could cut down our three (3) bay test set to two (2) or maybe one (1) bay. Our 3 bay test set has a standard scope, signal generator, and spectrum analyzer. Those 3 things take up a lot of real estate and a good bit of power. If those were put down into a PXI form factor space and power could be saved.

We could put all major items in PXI chassis and have a separate bay with power supplies and loads. The Integrated Test Adapter (ITA) would be on the bay with the power supplies. All lines for relays, DMM, Scope, etc would go from the control bay to the power bay with the ITA receiver panel.

With that setup, the instruments would be standard for all setups. The power and loads would be unique for each set up but with some cable standardization the setup could be standard between all test setups.

Just one use of a PXI chassis to shrink a test set, or at least to make it more mobile.

Have a great day