“The success of PXI over the past 10 years is evident not only in the number but also the diversity of applications using the platform,” said Loofie Gutterman, president of the PXI Systems Alliance. “From testing the controllers of the Microsoft Xbox 360, to testing the electronics on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, to operation in nuclear power plants, PXI has a proven track record of delivering highly reliable and flexible automated test systems.”
With PXI already being used in a wide range of industries and applications, the future of the platform in new applications looks just as encouraging with the integration of PXI Express. Announced in 2005, this new addition to the PXI specification offers the highest bandwidth, lowest latency and best timing and synchronization of any test platform, and will contribute to the rapid adoption PXI has experienced in its first 10 years.
“By integrating PXI Express into the PXI platform, we are giving engineers and scientists the ability to address challenges that previously required expensive, custom proprietary systems,” said Mark Wetzel, technical chair of the PXI Systems Alliance. “PXI has become the standard for measurement and automation applications, and we look forward to continued growth of the platform.”
According to industry analyst, S Vidyasankar, from Frost and Sullivan, more than 13,000 PXI systems were deployed in 2006. Frost and Sullivan also projects that the PXI market will experience more than a 23 percent compound annual growth rate through 2012, with a 2012 revenue of more than $671 million. The rapid expansion of PXI is expected to continue well into the future with more and more vendors adopting the platform to solve an increasing variety of application challenges.