PXI Module
In the recent years, PXI has established its position in the test and measurement industry, especially with such features as high data transfer rates, small rugged industrial footprint, open standard and multiple vendors.
PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) is an open industry standard for modular measurement and automation systems (www.pxisa.org). Based on and compliant to Compact-PCI, PXI combines the PCI-specification with new instrumentation specific features, taking advantage of the high performance of state-of-the-art PC-systems and their low cost. Based on the high-speed PCI bus, data rates up to 132MB/s are possible.
Typically PXI has been used for test and measurement but there has been a growing acceptance of new applications that PXI can be used for, including Boundary Scan/JTAG. GÖPEL electronic now makes it easy to integrate Boundary Scan into PXI test and measurement systems.
With innovative Boundary Scan Power Supplies, Digital I/O, Differential I/O and Mixed Signal I/O extension modules, GÖPEL electronic offers a complete range of PXI products for the integration in respective ATE systems.
PXI 5120 PXI Power Supply
- operation in 3.3 V / 5 V PXI and cPCI racks
- two independent and galvanically isolated voltage outputs
- programmable current limit 0…10 A
- setting of output voltage and current limit via the host interface
- recording of output voltage, output current and overcurrent flag
- use of trigger signals for the event control
- interconnection of the C-bus via Trigger bus, Star trigger, Local bus, as well as external
- U/I read back and recording functions (1,024 samples)
- thermal and overload protection
- IVI / VISA / LabVIEW s/w drivers
- variants:
- 2 V version 0.5…2 V
- 3 V version 1.2…3.3 V
- 5 V version 2.5…5 V
- 12 V version 5…12 V
- 24 V version 11…24 V
- 48 V version 23…48
PXI 52192 Digital I/O
- operation in PXITM and cPCITM racks
- 192 test channels
- all channels can be interconnected in HOT-SWAP mode – safe contacting is possible without PXI system being switched off
- the 192 test channels are subdivided into six groups with 32 channels each
- each group is programmable from 1.8 V to 5 V
- each channel is switchable as input, output or bi-directional pin, and is 5V tolerant
- driver current per channel: ±24 mA @ 5 V
- Unstress feature
- Preinstalled 50 pin cables (6 X 1m)
PXI 5296 Digital I/O
Digital Boundary Scan I/O Module with 96 channels, based on GÖPEL electronic’s CION™ component. 3U/1Slot instrument, groups of 32 channels each are voltage programmable between 1.8 and 5 V. Each channel can independently be configured as Input, Output, Bi-directional, Tri-State (Hot-Swap) and supports the Unstress feature.
- operation in PXITM and cPCITM racks
- 96 test channels
- all channels can be interconnected in HOT-SWAP mode – safe contacting is possible without PXI system being switched off
- 96 test channels are subdivided into three groups with 32 channels each
- each group is programmable from 1.8 V to 5 V
- each channel is switchable as input, output or bi-directional pin, and 5 V tolerant
- driver current per channel: ±24 mA @ 5 V
- Unstress feature
- preinstalled 50 pin IDC cables (3 X 1m)
PXI 5350 Differential I/O
- 1slot module with 3U
- 50 bi-directional differential I/O channels
- the PXI increment supports the following differential standards:
- LVDS (24 inputs, 24 outputs)
- BLVDS (50 bi-directional differential lines)
- LVPECL (24 inputs, 24 outputs)
- depending on the I/O-Standard each channel is input, output or bi-directional
- driver power per test channel is dependent on the selected I/O standard
- preinstalled 50 pin IDC cables (3 X 1m)
- triggering of the native PXI interface – higher vector frequenz and data throughput
- special features:
- scalable scheduling
- support of PXI-triggerbus
PXI 5396 Digital I/O

Digital Boundary Scan I/O Module with 96 channels, based on GÖPEL electronic’s CION™ component. 3U/1Slot instrument, six groups of 16 channels each are voltage programmable between 1.8 and 4,5 V. Each channel can independently be configured as Input, Output, Bi-directional, Tri-State (Hot-Swap) and supports the Unstress feature. I/O signals are available via a Paddle Card.
- operation in PXITM and cPCITM racks
- 96 test channels
- all channels can be interconnected in HOT-SWAP mode – safe contacting is possible without PXI system being switched off
- 96 test channels are subdivided into six groups with 16 channels each
- each group is programmable from 1.8 V to 4,5 V
- each channel is switchable as input, output or bi-directional pin
- Unstress feature
- combination of structural Boundary Scan tests and functional tests with up to 100 MHz clock rate
- VarioCore® technology integrated
PXI 5396-DT & PXI 5396/FXT
The digital PXI I/O Module 5396 is also available as stand-alone desktop version to directly integrate in Virginia Panel Receiver. PXI 5396/FXT for Fixture Applications with special add-on resources.
Interface Receiver
based on 192 pin receiver of Virginia Panel
You will find further PXI Controller under SCANFLEX® section.
| The latest PXI specification is available from the PXI Systems Alliance website |












