LXI Test Equipment

LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation



LXI Description

LXI stands for LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation. LXI uses Ethernet as the interconnect topology. The LXI interface is a VXI like system without a slot 0 controller and allows devices to interconnect via Ethernet instead of an IEEE-488 cable. Modules are self-contained, with their own power supply, processor, and LAN connections with no card cage, but they may be rack-mounted.
Refer to the main LXI page for more details.

The LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation [LXI] specification is a new standard and was released in 2005.
LXI will tend to reduce the cost of modular instruments by eliminating the requirement of the slot 0 controller and increase the inter-modular communication speed by using Ethernet instead of the IEEE-488 bus. This is a newly released standard, so product support is still growing. Back to the main Test Equipment page.


LXI Manufacturers

Agilent Technologies
{Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator, Digital Multimeters, Signal Generators, LXI class A, LXI Switch and Control Instruments}

C&H Technologies, Inc.
{LXI Ethernet Carrier for M-Modules}

Pickering
{LXI High Voltage Matrix 2-pole 200x2, LXI Low Thermal EMF Matrix 1-pole 42x33,
LXI Microwave Matrix, 10GHz, Single 8x4, LXI WTB Probe, Terminated, LXI WTB 20m Cable Assembly}

VTI Instruments
{Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning, Signal Switching and I/O}

LXI Based Products
In a few years most gear should contain the LXI interface.
When there is more gear with an LXI based interface the equipment will be moved to the Test Equipment pages.
However in the mean time as there so few LXI related products this page will stay.
It's already been out for 5 years [2005 - 2010], not sure why LXI is taking so long to be adapted.

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