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Trends in Test & MeasurementPXI Express, Multicore, & FPGA Processing
Eric Starkloff
Director of Product Marketing, Test and
Measurement
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Agenda
Test and measurement industry trends
Key technology update: PXI, Multicore, & FPGA
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Rapid Integration in the Digital World
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Separate Devices
Fixed Functionality
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Software Defined
Highly Integrated
Rapid Integration in the Digital World
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Chip SOC SIP Board System
Increased Integration at the Chip Level
Photo courtesy of Verigy
Chip ATE System Functional Test
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Key Technology Trends
Growth of PXI and PXI Express
Multicore Computing
Embedded FPGA Processing
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Industry Acceptance of PXI
Num
berofSystemsPerYea
r
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1998199920002001200220032004200520062007
Available PXI Products
More than 1,500 PXI
Products from 60 vendorsSource: PXI Systems Alliance
25% CAGR forecastfor 2005 2012Source: World VXI & PXI Test EquipmentMarkets, Frost & Sullivan, April 2005
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011
PXI Systems Sales Forecast
PXI Systems
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Major PXI Vendors
Advantest PXI-based CertiMAXsemiconductor validation tester
Aeroflex
PXI RF modules and PXI-based In Circuit Tester (ICT)
Agilent
PXI digitizers, generators, and optical test equipment
Keithley PXI data acquisition
National Instruments
PXI Modular Instruments, DAQ, Vision, Motion, Chassis and Controllers
Rohde and Schwarz
PXI-based automotive tester
Teradyne:
PXI functional tester
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PCI Express Technology
Full software compatibility with PCI
Bandwidth scalable from 250 MB/s 4 GB/s
Peer-Peer streaming
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New Applications for PXI Express
High bandwidth communications systems test
(multichannel, streaming IF)
High-speed digital interfacing and test
Large channel count data acquisition systems forstructural and acoustic test
High-speed image acquisition
Source: PXISA Whitepaper: Enabling New Applications with PXI Express: 6
GByte/s of Backplane Bandwidth with Backwards Compatibility
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Parallel Architectures Drive Performance
1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
CPUSpe
ed
Clock Speed (kHz) Transistor Count
Intel QX6700 Quad Core
Processor 2.66 GHz CPU speed
Faster processors Multicore processors
To fully exploit the power of processors working in parallel... new softwaremust deal with the problem of concurrency." Bill Gates
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LabVIEW automatically divides each application into
multiple execution threads since 1998
LabVIEW 8.5 scales execution threads based on
available CPU coresThread #1
Thread #3
Thread #2
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Key Technology Trends
Growth of PXI and PXI Express
Multicore Computing
Embedded FPGA Processing
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Programming FPGA
Counter
LabVIEW FPGAVHDL
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Programming FPGA
LabVIEW FPGAVHDL
Analog I/O
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Programming FPGA
LabVIEW FPGAVHDL66 Pages ~4000 lines
The number of HDL-savvy
designers is expected to reach200,000 by 2010.
-Wally RhinesMentor Graphics CEO
I/O with DMA
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Conclusions
Testing todays devices requires a modular, software-
based approach
PXI continues to grow in adoption and capability
Commercial technologies such as PCIExpress, multicore processors, and FPGAs will continue
to drive test and measurement
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