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Plug-In Serial Interfaces

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  • PCI, PXI, PCMCIA, and ISA serial interfaces up to 16 ports
  • Flexible baud rates from 57 b/s to
    2 Mb/s on high-performance serial interfaces
  • Integration with NI-VISA for easy development
  • Up to 128 B transmit and receive FIFOs
  • Asynchronous RS232, RS485 and RS422 serial protocols

National Instruments, a long-time market leader in instrumentation, offers both traditional and the highest performance serial interfaces, 100% compatible with standard PC serial ports, for communication with industrial devices. The NI high-performance PCI and PXI serial interfaces deliver direct memory access (DMA) to the PCI bus; plus advanced features such as flexible baud rates up to 2 Mb/s to within 1% accuracy, as well as universal PCI, hyperthreading, and multiprocessor support. Traditional PCI, PXI, PCMCIA, and ISA serial interfaces have up to 921.6 kb/s maximum transfer rate and up to 64 B transmit and receive FIFOs; plus optional 2,000 V isolation.

Plug-In Serial Interfaces:
PCI Serial Interfaces
PXI Serial Interfaces
PCMCIA Serial Interfaces

Plug-In Serial Interfaces that work with OS's other than Windows 2000/XP:
Legacy Serial Interfaces