Enhancing VXIBUS Systems Through the Power of Ethernet

The VXIbus architecture has proven to be an ideal solution for high channel count applications that require extremely tight synchronization between multiple instruments and mainframes. Additionally, VXIbus products have historically integrated quite easily with other open-instrumentation platforms and communication buses such as IEEE-488, IEEE-1394 and USB 2.0, providing a very stable platform, independent of rapidly changing PC bus architectures. The recent introduction of LAN-based instrumentation based upon the LXI standard provides yet another opportunity for VXIbus devices to leverage advances in interface technology. High-speed Ethernet serial communication presents many benefits across a wide range of applications, and leveraging these benefits continues to make VXIbus solutions viable well into the 21^st century.