PXI is one of several electronic instrumentation platforms in current use. These platforms are used as a basis for building electronic test equipment or automation systems, such as might be used in a mobile phone manufacturing test environment. Based on industry-standard computer buses and loaded up with extra features to facilitate electronic test, they permit a great deal of flexibility in building the exact test equipment or automation system required. Often they are fitted with custom software to manage the system.
Excerpt - page 838: "... provides clock distribution and arbitration for its PCI bus segment-no embeddedcontroller is necessary in the PXI/ CompactPCI chassis. By plugging a PCI MXI-3 board into a ..."
Excerpt - page 179: "... scalable CompactPCl specification and the high-speed PCI bus architecture. A PXI box has slots for PXI instruments and for an embeddedcontroller. The box has a PCI bus in the back plane. ..."
