EADS North America Test and Services introduces Racal Instruments high performance VXI 4.0 mainframe family

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EADS North America Test and Services, a division of EADS North America, introduces the new Racal Instruments™1263 series of VXI 4.0 Mainframes. Superior power, higher speed, and enhanced cooling capabilities make these mainframes ideal for housing the latest generation of high-performance VXI instruments, including high-power digital test instruments. These 13-slot mainframes are fully compliant with VXI-1 Revision 4.0, the latest revision to the VXIbus specification. With a 26-year history, the VXIbus continues to be the leading modular instrument test platform.

The Racal Instruments™ 1263 series of high power mainframes deliver up to 3.8 kW of power to the VXI modules and incorporate more powerful 5-row backplane connectors that enable parallel data transfer up to 320MB/s with 2eSST protocol.

Up to 1200 Cubic Feet per Minute (CFM) of cooling airflow, optimized internal airflow design, and automatic fan control enable even high-powered digital test instruments to reliably operate within a 1263HPf or 1263HPr mainframe. Programmable alarms and remote LAN monitoring of fan speed, individual rail voltages and intake/exhaust temperatures can be used to protect valuable VXI instrumentation installed within.

Variants of the 1263 series of VXI 4.0 mainframes include the 1263HPf, a front-maintainable, high power chassis, the 1263HPr, a rear-maintainable, high power chassis, and the 1263MPf, a medium power, front-maintainable chassis. The 1263MPf offers many of the same features and benefits of the high power mainframe, including compliance with the latest revision to the VXIbus 4.0 specification (VXI-1 revision 4.0), but with 1.7 kW of maximum backplane power for medium power applications. In addition, the 1263MPf’s VXI 4.0 backplane is fitted with VXS serial fabric connectors and a switch slot for use with up to 8 bi-directional lanes of PCI Express and/or other buses.