NI PXI-8430/4 (RS232)

The National Instruments PXI-8430/4 is a high-performance, four-port serial interface for high-speed communication with RS232 devices at rates of up to 1 Mb/s. High-performance RS232 interfaces are also available with two ports. The NI PXI-8430/4 offers flexible baud rates for data transmissions between 57 b/s and 1,000 kb/s to within 1 percent accuracy for nonstandard baud rates and 0.01 percent accuracy for standard baud rates.

With the high-performance DMA engine, you achieve high throughput with minimal CPU usage. Using memory mapping, you can connect to more communication points without resource conflicts. National Instruments also offers easy-to-use powerful software that significantly reduces your development time for systems using serial communication with the PXI-8430/4. The PXI-8430/4 includes four converter cables (RJ50 to DB9 male).

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Factory Installation

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• Installation of all individual hardware and software components as well as full testing to eliminate conflicts
• Custom documentation plus a custom restore and startup utility
• 2-year warranty and calibration coverage

This service is only available for PXI, CompactRIO, and Compact FieldPoint systems.

Extended Warranties

National Instruments designs and manufactures all products to minimize failures, but we know unexpected failures can still occur. Extended warranties provide a fixed economical price at the time of system purchase covering any repair costs for up to three years.

• Significant cost savings compared to individual repair incidents
• Fault location, diagnostics, and repair by NI any time the system product fails
• All parts and labor costs covered as well as any adjustments needed to bring the hardware back to manufacturing specifications

Calibration

NI recognizes the need to maintain properly calibrated devices for high-accuracy measurements. We provide manual calibration procedures, services to recalibrate your products, and automated calibration software to calibrate many of our measurement products.

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