The PXI Systems Alliance (www.pxisa.org) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) specification, the PC-based modular I/O platform for test, measurement and control systems.

National Instruments has unveiled a new suite of software and hardware intellectual property (IP) to make it easier to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in measurement, control and signal processing applications. Collaborating with its worldwide network of customers, integrators and National Instruments Alliance Partners, NI is now making available the FPGA IPNet www.ni.com/ipnet to provide an open forum for sharing LabVIEW FPGA IP and new hardware I/O modules for analogue and digital I/O, communication buses/protocols and motion control. The newly available resources make it easier for engineers and scientists without hardware design experience to integrate FPGA technology into their test and control applications.