NI Extends CompactRIO Platform With New
Systems Built for Higher Volume Deployments
New Low-Cost NI cRIO-9075/9076 Systems Offer a Smaller Form
Factor and Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs for Advanced Control and
Monitoring Applications
NEWS RELEASE May 3, 2011 National Instruments today
announced the release of the new NI cRIO-9075 and cRIO-9076 integrated chassis and
controllers, which lower the cost of the NI CompactRIO platform for embedded
control and monitoring applications. CompactRIO is powered by
reconfigurable I/O (RIO) and NI LabVIEW FPGA technologies and
combines an open embedded architecture with a small footprint,
extreme ruggedness and a wide breadth of analog, digital, motion
and communication I/O modules.
The new integrated systems combine an industrial 400 MHz Freescale
real-time processor and four-slot chassis with an embedded,
reconfigurable Xilinx Spartan-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for custom timing, control and
signal processing capabilities. These NI RIO systems are
programmable with LabVIEW graphical system design tools
and combine the ease of use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
systems with the performance of custom hardware. By combining these
new low-cost CompactRIO systems with the power and productivity of
LabVIEW, engineers and researchers can prototype and deploy custom
embedded control and monitoring systems faster and at a lower cost
without the need for large engineering design teams. The cRIO-9075
and cRIO-9076 are ideal for embedded control and monitoring
applications within industries such as energy, medical and robotics
that require a short time to market, advanced control algorithms
and high-speed analog and digital I/O.
The new systems extend the NI RIO technology platform offering,
which includes CompactRIO, PXI
and PC hardware and features a shared standard embedded hardware
architecture. By combining the platforms powerful floating-point
processors, reconfigurable FPGA and I/O modules, NI RIO systems
help improve time to market and lower development costs of machines
and embedded devices. The combination of the NI RIO hardware
platform with LabVIEW graphical system design software provides
design teams with an easily reconfigurable embedded system,
eliminating the need to design custom hardware for higher volume
deployments and OEM applications. Additionally, engineers and
researchers can further reduce time to market and improve system
reliability by reusing the same LabVIEW code in between prototyping
and deployment phases. Offering a lower cost to the RIO platform,
these new cRIO-9075 and cRIO-9076 systems help design teams not
only get to market faster but also deploy at higher volumes more
cost effectively.
Product specifications for the new systems include the
following:
|
cRIO-9075
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cRIO-9076
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CPU speed |
400 MHz
|
400 MHz
|
DRAM memory |
128 MB
|
256 MB
|
Nonvolatile storage |
256 MB
|
512 MB
|
Ethernet port(s) |
Single 10/100
|
Single 10/100
|
USB port for removable storage |
-
|
Single USB port
|
Serial port |
Single RS232
|
Single RS232
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FPGA size |
LX-25 Spartan-6
|
LX-45 Spartan-6
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C Series module slots |
4 slots
|
4 slots
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DC input power |
Single 9 to 30 VDC
|
Single 9 to 30 VDC
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Temperature range |
-20 to 55 °C
|
-20 to 55 °C
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Shock/vibration ratings |
50 g shock, 5 g vibration
|
50 g shock, 5 g vibration
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Readers can learn more about the cRIO-9075 and cRIO-9076
controllers at www.ni.com/compactrio.
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