The alphabet soup of test-instrument standards.
Industry insiders have a tough time deciphering the range of acronyms associated with the automation of test instruments. To help improve your fluency, here is a rundown of the major standards. The underlying intent is to give you a sense of how these all work together, perhaps helping you conquer the world of computer-based instrument control. This is necessarily an incomplete list.
AXIe: A new standard based on Advanced TCA, short for Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture or ATCA. ATCA is used in today's computer servers and offers a mid-sized modular architecture for instrumentation. AXIe enhances ATCA with the clocks and triggers needed for test. From a software standpoint, AXIe looks much like PXI Express. …
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