Early July marked the release of specifications for a new modular test instrument standard-AXIe (Ad-vancedTCA Extensions for Instrumentation and Test). The specifications add clock, triggering, and other signals to a high-performance architecture that initially targeted telecom computing. Rather than seeing the new standard as a competitor to PXI, however, AXIe's developers see it as an extension of the PXI test-development model.
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