Business-Main Portfolio of PXI Digital I/O Modules Ship Enhanced Density, Voltage, and Present Functionality

Pickering Interfaces, a pacesetter in modular sign switching and simulation merchandise for digital take a look at and verification, has launched 4 new industrial digital I/O households for PXI- and LXI-based methods. These additions improve Pickering’s industrial digital enter and output modules vary, providing greater density, expanded voltage and present ranges, and programmable logic ranges in PXI and PXIe kind elements. With these new modules, Pickering now holds the business’s largest and most complete portfolio of PXI and PXIe digital I/O modules.

Digital enter and output modules are essential in automated take a look at methods for working exterior units or interfacing with exterior logic. Digital inputs take a look at sign voltage ranges, whereas digital outputs can act as a present supply, sink, or each. These industrial digital I/O modules are appropriate for buying alerts from digital sensors, and speaking with industrial units like PLCs, and driving relays, solenoids, and lamps.

“At Pickering Interfaces, we’re dedicated to offering the biggest and most succesful catalogue of business digital I/O merchandise within the business,” stated Paul Bovingdon, Pickering’s Technical Engineering Supervisor. “These new modules mirror our dedication to assembly the evolving wants of our prospects.”

Excessive-Density Digital Output Modules (Mannequin 40/42-412A)

These high-channel-count output modules broaden the prevailing 40-412 PXI vary, including a PXIe possibility (mannequin 42-412A). This household presents as much as 64 output channels (with 16, 32, 48, or 64 output channel variants), that includes an exterior most output voltage vary of 50V and 0.5A low-side or high-side driving functionality.

Excessive-Density Digital Enter Module with Twin Programmable Thresholds (Mannequin 40/42-414)

The brand new 40-414 (PXI) and 42-414 (PXIe) digital enter modules provide excessive channel rely, excessive enter voltage functionality, and twin programmable threshold settings per financial institution. Impartial banks of eight channels permit for a number of voltage stage detection throughout the module. Twin thresholds allow handy standing dedication of digital alerts by evaluating every enter voltage to 2 programmable threshold ranges, helpful in practical take a look at purposes, usually changing the necessity for a DMM. Out there variants embody 32, 64, 96, or 128 enter channels with most threshold voltages of 50V, 100V, 200V, or 300V. These modules successfully decide the state of business digital alerts in automotive, aerospace, and rail purposes, decreasing exterior sign conditioning circuits and minimizing take a look at system complexity and footprint.

Semi-Dynamic Digital I/O Module (Mannequin 40/42-419)

The 40-419 (PXI) and 42-419 (PXIe) digital I/O modules present 16 to 64 I/O channels with as much as a 60V vary through exterior provide or 4 built-in voltage rail choices (+3.3V, +5V, +12V, or +24V), and as much as 300mA present output functionality. In addition they provide I/O course choice for every port/channel, with every port of eight channels being set as inputs or outputs collectively, or particular person channels inside a port being set as enter or output. The module offers semi-dynamic 8-bit sample acquisition and technology utilizing on-board reminiscence.

Relay Driver Module (Mannequin 40/42-411A)

This replace to the prevailing mannequin 40-411 contains PXIe choices, providing variants with 16 to 64 low-side outputs, 60V, 1A relay driving functionality, and three choices for on-board relay voltage provide (plus a blended voltage possibility) for low-power purposes. The 40-411A (PXI) and 42-411A (PXIe) fashions are designed to drive exterior relays from a PXI or PXIe system or Pickering Interfaces’ LXI modular chassis.

Fashions 40/42-411A, 412A, and 419 function built-in safety methods, together with over-current detection and over-voltage clamp or thermal overload. These modules can drive relay coils with out flyback diodes or forestall relay coil present from flowing again into the chassis backplane utilizing an isolation barrier. They provide flexibility with exterior or inner provide choices and high-side or low-side driving functionality to fulfill numerous load capability necessities.

The modules’ entrance panels use a 78-pin D-type connector for fashions 40/42-411A and 412A or a 160-pin DIN 41612 for fashions 40/42-414 and 419, supported by a spread of connector equipment.