CompactRIO Controllers Lower Costs for Engineers

National Instruments (NI) has released the cRIO-9075 and cRIO-9076 integrated chassis and controllers, which lower the cost of CompactRIO 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, high ruggedness and a wide breadth of analogue, digital, motion and communication I/O modules.

The new integrated systems combine an industrial 400MHz 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.

NI claims that by combining these 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 suitable 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 analogue 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 platform's floating-point processors, reconfigurable FPGA and I/O modules, NI RIO systems are designed to help improve time to market and lower development costs of machines and embedded devices.

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