The PXIe-8881RT is an Intel Xeon 8-core embedded controller for high-performance PXI Express systems manufactured by National Instruments, designed for processor-intensive radio frequency (RF), modular instrumentation and data acquisition applications. The controller has several high-speed ports, including two 10/100/1000BASE-TX (gigabit) Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports and four USB 2.0 ports, as well as two Thunderbolt 3 ports. In addition, it integrates a hard drive and other peripheral I/O. In terms of memory, the PXIe-8881RT is available in 16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB options to accommodate the needs of different processor cores. It supports a variety of operating systems, including Windows 10 64-bit and LabVIEW RT.

PXIe-8880

The hardware components of the PXIe-8881RT controller mainly include the microprocessor chip, the software solidified in the chip (including embedded real-time operating system, application program, application programming interface API, real-time database, etc.) and other components. The software design is customized for specific application requirements to achieve efficient and stable control functions. The features and benefits of this controller include low power consumption, small size, high integration, and high performance and high-speed processing capabilities. It also supports network interconnection and expansion, easy to achieve network interconnection and network expansion, and can be applied to various networks as embedded controllers to access the backbone network.