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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

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berofSystemsPerYea

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400

600

800

1000

1200

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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

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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

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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