Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs Power NI CompactRIO Systems

Xilinx Inc.’s Spartan-6 FPGAs are powering National Instruments’ multicore NI CompactRIO systems and NI Single-Board RIO devices. The companies’ successful collaboration spans more than a decade and has already delivered more than 60 flagship NI RIO products, which combine LabVIEW system design software and NI RIO hardware systems with embedded Xilinx FPGAs.

NI’s new NI CompactRIO 908x systems offer designers the highest processing power of any CompactRIO product configuration, and the integrated Spartan-6 FPGA enables complex signal processing performance and control for applications such as rapid control prototyping, advanced motion control and machine vision.

Meanwhile, the 102.87x96.52mm NI Single-Board RIO 9605/06 devices provide designers with a small, cost-optimized form factor for high-volume and OEM applications. Featuring built-in peripherals such as RS232, CAN, USB and Ethernet, plus support for adding more for further customization, the Spartan-6 FPGA-powered Single-Board RIO 9605/06 devices provide reliability and performance at a low price point for OEMs.

"The combination of NI LabVIEW and Xilinx FPGAs gives our customers the ability to design innovative embedded systems while significantly reducing their time-to-market,” said Eric Starkloff, NI Vice President of Embedded Systems and Test Marketing, in a statement. “In the future, we look forward to enabling our customers' applications with Xilinx by delivering phenomenal NI RIO products based on the company's newest 7 series FPGAs and Zynq embedded processing platforms."

"NI continues to drive engineering innovation by offering new high-performance solutions to domain experts using the intuitive LabVIEW graphical system design tools," added Vin Ratford, Xilinx Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development. "Going forward, we're excited to see what engineering challenges customers can solve with next-generation NI products built with Xilinx's new 28nm FPGA family and Zynq extensible processing platform."

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