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Enhancing Automotive Electronic T est with LXI.
Enter L AN eXtensions for Instrumentation (LXI), an architecture for next- generation test systems based on pro ven, widel y used st andards such as Ether net.
Many of these systems are created with VXI- or PXI- based hardware and controlled with eit her an embedded PC or standalone PC connect ed through an inter face card and cable.
3. Cost Minimizing the ov erall cost of test requires fast, reliable te sting at as low a price as pos- sible. Some trade publications hav e suggested t hat functional test adds no value: At this late stage, most manufacturers have inspected incoming par ts, per - formed X-ra y inspection and completed in-circuit test.
5. Longevity Figure 3 pro vides a compari- son of various inter faces o ver the past 30-plus years. Most notew or thy is the continuous impr ov ement in L AN perfor - mance while maintaining backward com patibility , sug- gesting that it will continue as a dominant for ce in the computer industr y f or a long time to come.
6 7. Rack space An LXI-based functional test system could be assembled in a rack as small as 750 mm tall (Figure 5). This space ef ficiency is due in part t o LXI-based devices such as an eight-slot switch/measure unit wit h a built-in DMM (second position in rack) and a 1U modular po wer system (lo west position in rack).
7 The ability to put t he stimulus and measurement instruments where they are needed — with minimal or no cabling back to the core of t he system — is a feature unique to LXI. Modules such as the A gilent L4400A series are designed for this type of remote or distributed application (Figure 6).
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