National Instruments PXIe-6571 PXI Digital Pattern Instrument       

The PXIe-6571 (part numbers: 786320-01, 786320-02) is a PXI Digital Pattern Instrument from National Instruments. Designed for interfacing with PXI Express PC slots, the NI PXIe-6571 can be used with the NI Digital Pattern Editor drivers including the NI DC-Power and NI Sync. Designed for use with Windows Operating Systems, the instrument is compatible with application software including LabVIEW and Microsoft Visual Studio. The difference between the two part numbers of the Digital Pattern Instrument is that part number 786320-01 features 32 channels, while part number 786320-02 has only 8 channels. The slots of the PXIe-6571 PXI Digital Pattern Instrument are equipped with a slot cooling capacity of 82 W.

The PXIe-6571 has a total system channel count of 512, and it is available with a large vector memory (LVM) of 128M vectors. The instrument supports voltage measurements ranging from -2 V to 7 V, and it includes a maximum vector rate of 100 MHz. It is operated with a resolution of 38 fs for vector periods. The device comes with 8 multi-site resources for each instrument, and it is equipped with a master clock source of PXIe_CLK100.

The input power and current draw for the PXIe-6571 differ depending on the number of channels. The variation of the device with 32 channels has an input power of 76 W, and current draws of 1.7 A for a voltage of 3.3 V and 5.9 A for a voltage of 12 V. The part number variation of the instrument with 8 channels boasts an input channel of 49 W and current draws of 1.3 A for a voltage of 3.3 V and 3.7 A for a voltage of 12 V

Physically, the PXIe-6571 only takes up one PXIe slot- requiring 30 minutes of warm up time prior to operation. It measures 5.16 in. × 0.83 in. × 8.43 in. (131 mm × 21 mm × 214 mm) in dimensions, weighing in at 22.5 oz. (640 g). The environmental operating temperature range of the instrument is 0 °C to 40 °C, while the storage temperature range is -40 °C to 71 °C.