EDITORIAL CONTACT:
David Owen
Pickering Interfaces
David.owen@pickeringtest.com
April 2008

Clacton on Sea, UK –Pickering Interfaces has published the second edition of its successful publication– LXImate. The LXImate 130 page book provides an easy to read description of the LXI Standard, product availability, and its evolution.

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 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 perfect companion to the PXImate, book currently in its 4th Edition, also published by Pickering Interfaces.

Copies of the new publication are free and can be obtained by ordering from our web site at www.pickeringtest.com/lximate or by contacting your local Pickering Interfaces Sales office.


About Pickering Interfaces

Pickering Interfaces is a market innovator in signal switching and conditioning for a broad range of applications and architectures, with the largest range of switching cards in the industry for PXI, LXI, PCI, VXI and GPIB applications.  Pickering Interfaces has provided solutions to both commercial and military applications.  In addition, Pickering’s range of instrumentation provides innovative test solutions to users and integrators of modular test systems.  Pickering Interfaces operate globally with direct operations in the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, France , Czech Republic, and Engineering support in China, together with additional representation in countries throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.