NI PXI-4071 FLEXDMM LISTED AMONG 'ULTIMATE PRODUCTS' IN READER SURVEY FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 2005
08 June 2005 - National Instruments Corporation (UK)

Released in February of this year, the PXI-4071 FlexDMM is the industry's most accurate PXI multimeter and helps engineers take measurements ranging from picoamps to kilovolts with DC reading rates of 7 S/s at 7½ digits.

"The PXI-4071 FlexDMM is a high-performance, multifunction 3U PXI module that combines the measurement capability found in two common test instruments, a high-resolution digital multimeter and a digitizer," said Eric Starkloff, NI director of product marketing for modular instrumentation and instrument control. "Its superior speed, accuracy and functionality make it an excellent fit for use in automated tests on both the production floor and in an R&D environment. We are excited that EE Times editors and readers share our vision of the performance gains this product can deliver."

The NI PXI-4071 FlexDMM features a 7½-digit (26 bits) digital multimeter and an 1.8 MS/s isolated digitizer. It offers fast, accurate voltage measurements from ±10 nV to ±1000 V as well as resistance measurements from 10 megohms to 5 gigohms. It uses a solid-state current shunt configuration that offers 8 DC current ranges from 1 µA to 3 A and 6 AC rms current ranges from 100 µA to 3 A. This capability gives engineers the flexibility, resolution, functionality and isolation required for complex applications such as fuel-cell testing, leakage measurements, IV curve tracing and data converter linearity testing.

Now in its second year, Ultimate Products is a product peer review program developed by EE Times and eeProductCenter to survey for the most popular products in seven categories, analog ICs; processors and memory; interconnect, passive and electromechanical components; logic and programmable logic; power; RF and microwave; and test and measurement. Working engineers then rated these products using an electronic ballot, with ratings based on technical significance and the likelihood of the engineer using the product.

"NI not only offers a dazzling array of modular instruments, instruments for making measurements anywhere from DC into the microwave domain, but it's also constantly dishing up tantalizing new products such as this new 3U-sized single slot PXI/cPCI 7½ -digit DMM," said Alex Mendelsohn, senior technical editor for
eeProductCenter. "When you consider the PXI-4071's price of less than $2,500 USD, it shapes up as a DMM that's likely just at home making automated tests on the factory floor as it is in the lab."

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