The LXI Consortium has certified more than 1740 instruments in over 223 product families since the specifications were first released in 2005. Some of the recent LXI product introductions are highlighted below:

Agilent E4982A LCR Meter, 1 MHz to 3 GHz
The E4982A LCR Meter provides the best performance for the passive component manufacturing such as SMD inductors and EMI filters, where impedance testing at high frequencies (1 MHz to 3 GHz) is required. Not only for the manufacturing, the E4982A can also be utilized for R&D, quality assurance with the powerful functions such as list measurements.

Tektronix AWG7000 Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Uncompromised performance with ultimate flexibility. The AWG7000 Series Arbitrary Waveform Generators, with up to 24 GS/s and 10 Bit vertical resolution, deliver the industry's best signal stimulus solution for ever-increasing measurement challenges. This allows for easy generation of very complex signals, complete with controllable jitter, noise and other signal impairments.

Keithley’s Model 2651A High Power System SourceMeter®
Designed for characterizing high power electronics, providing the industry’s widest current range, which is critical for applications such as testing high brightness LEDs (HBLEDs), power semiconductors, DC-DC converters, etc.

Rigol Technologies DS4000 Digital Oscilloscopes
Versatile, high performance oscilloscopes featuring bandwidths between 100MHz and 500MHz, sample rates up to 4GSa/s, and up to 4 analog channels.

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By Neil Forcier
Agilent Technologies

You are on your way to catch a flight to India where you will help an important customer integrate your company's solar-powered base station into a rural area near Bangalore. As you board the plane, you want to check the status of ongoing environmental tests being performed in your lab on an updated base station especially designed for hot and humid rural climates. You whip out your iPhone and connect to your Agilent 34972A LXI data acquisition unit and read the results from the most recent temperature scans. Everything checks out, so you raise the temperature of the chamber via the digital control module on the DAQ unit. You power down your smart device for take-off and settle in for a long flight.

Is it a reality or a pipedream?

Introduction
The LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) instrument I/O standard was built upon the ubiquitous Ethernet or LAN network standard, the same standard that makes the Internet possible. Because of its Ethernet foundation, one big advantage LXI offers is the flexibility engendered by distance between a computer or controller and the LXI instrument to which it is connected.

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