{"id":2624,"date":"2019-02-14T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T10:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/35.94.173.37\/blog\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T10:17:31","slug":"national-instruments-flexrio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/national-instruments-flexrio\/","title":{"rendered":"National Instruments FlexRIO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0FlexRIO<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>family by\u00a0National Instruments<\/strong>\u00a0was created for scientists and engineers requiring the versatility of customized hardware at an affordable price. These products are ideal for applications, such as custom protocol emulation, RADAR\/LIDAR, automated test, signals intelligence, accelerator monitoring\/control, medical imaging, and communications. The\u00a0FlexRIO<\/strong>\u00a0products have features such as huge, user-programmable FPGAs and high-speed digital, analog, and RF I\/O. The\u00a0FlexRIO National Instruments<\/strong>\u00a0products have two architectures available. One involves modular I\/O modules which can be attached to the front of a PXI FPGA Module for FlexRIO and can communicate via a parallel digital interface. The other type of architecture utilizes high-speed serial converters and comes with integrated I\/O and Xilinx UltraScale FPGA technology.<\/p>\n

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One type of module in the\u00a0FlexRIO<\/strong>\u00a0NI\u00a0<\/strong>family is the PXI FPGA Module for FlexRIO. These modules have as many as 132 single-ended I\/O lines which can be arranged as 66 differential pairs. The\u00a0NI FlexRIO FPGA Modules<\/strong>\u00a0have Virtex or Kintex FPGAs and a PCI, PCI Express Gen1 x 4, PCI Express Gen2 x 4, or a PCI-Express Gen2 x 8 PXI Backplane Link. The\u00a0FlexRIO FPGA Modules<\/strong>\u00a0can achieve Peer-to-Peer or P2P data streaming with other modules that support streaming like the PXIe-5668R Analyzer. P2P allows customized frequency and time domain triggering, as well as real-time signal processing for devices that normally need a CPU for further processing. The user should keep in mind that a maximum of 16 P2P streams is supported.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the\u00a0FlexRIO Adapter Modules<\/strong>\u00a0belong to this series. They can be interfaced with the\u00a0FlexRIO FPGA Module<\/strong>\u00a0via a card-edge connector. The user also has the option to create their own customized adapter module with the FlexRIO Adapter Module Development Kit.<\/p>\n

Another product type in this series is the\u00a0Controller for FlexRIO<\/strong>. These models offer a powerful Xilinx FPGA, high-performance I\/O, along with an embedded processor enhanced for field deployment. The\u00a0Controllers for FlexRIO<\/strong>\u00a0also have 2 GB of onboard DDR3 RAM and several of the models have high-speed serial ports designed for streaming.<\/p>\n

There is also the\u00a0PXI FlexRIO IF Transceivers<\/strong>, which have Xilinx FPGAs and high-speed data converters, making them ideal for applications involving high-performance analog input and real-time signal processing.<\/p>\n

If the user would like to utilize the\u00a0National Instruments FlexRIO<\/strong>\u00a0system for signal input or output, then it is necessary to attach a\u00a0FlexRIO Adapter Module<\/strong>\u00a0to the front of the\u00a0FlexRIO FPGA Module<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0FlexRIO\u00a0family by\u00a0National Instruments\u00a0was created for scientists and engineers requiring the versatility of customized hardware at an affordable price. These products are ideal for applications, such as custom protocol emulation, RADAR\/LIDAR, automated test, signals intelligence, accelerator monitoring\/control, medical imaging, and communications. The\u00a0FlexRIO\u00a0products have features such as huge, user-programmable FPGAs and high-speed digital, analog, and RF I\/O. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[148,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,250,393,406,451,453],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-instruments","tag-controller-for-flexrio","tag-flexrio-adapter-module","tag-flexrio-card-ni","tag-flexrio-controller","tag-flexrio-digitizer","tag-flexrio-fpga","tag-flexrio-national-instruments","tag-flexrio-ni","tag-flexrio-transceiver","tag-national-instruments","tag-national-instruments-flexrio","tag-ni-flexrio","tag-ni-flexrio-fpga-module"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}