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National Instruments aims at high-volume applications

Integrating hardware that includes an embedded realtime processor and a reconfi gurable FPGA, National Instruments’ new cRIO-9072 and cRIO-9074 CompactRIO systems target high-volume industrial applications. The systems extend NI’s FPGAbased deployment platforms that share common hardware architecture and I/O modules. Using this standard architecture and LabView FPGA and Real-Time tools, engineers can design and prototype industrial- monitoring-and-control machines with PXI (peripheral- component-interconnectextensions- for-instrumentation), PC, or standard CompactRIO hardware and then move to the cRIO-907x CompactRIO systems to reduce deployment costs. Because engineers can reuse the same LabView code during prototyping and deployment, they can shorten time-tomarket and increase machine reliability.

To reduce costs, the cRIO- 907x integrates the processor and the FPGA chip on the same PCB (printed-circuit board). The cRIO-9072 system combines an industrial, 266-MHz real-time processor; 64 Mbytes of DRAM; 128 Mbytes of nonvolatile storage; and an eight-slot chassis with a reconfi gurable, 1 milliongate FPGA chip. Prices start at $1999. The cRIO-9074 contains a 400-MHz realtime processor, 128 Mbytes of DRAM, 256 Mbytes of nonvolatile storage, and an eightslot chassis with a 3 milliongate FPGA chip. Prices start at $2999.

National Instruments, www.ni.com/compactrio.