Pickering Interfaces and Amplicon to promote PXI

To raise awareness and counteract this misunderstanding, Pickering Interfaces is teaming up with Amplicon to offer UK test system builders an extended choice of PXI platforms, instruments, switches and cabling options. All PXI products have to meet the specification defined by the PXI Systems Alliance to ensure compatibility, and there are now hundreds of multi-vendor systems being used in test applications worldwide.

Amplicon offers a wide selection of PXI products from such major vendors as Geotest, ADLINK and ZTEC, while Pickering Interfaces claims to manufacture the industry's largest range of PXI switch modules and interconnection products.

Nick Hickford, Pickering's UK Sales Manager, explains: "Many system designers do not fully appreciate the degree of interoperability that PXI offers and may compromise their designs by trying to source all components from a single vendor in order to avoid any supposed integration issues. Our UK marketing collaboration with Amplicon is intended to help engineers build the highest performance and most cost-effective T&M [test and measurement] systems by guiding them through a choice of fully compatible products from a number of leading PXI vendors."

John Hayward, Amplicon's Product Manager for Measurement and Control, comments: "The collaboration between Amplicon and Pickering reinforces the fact that PXI is an open standard, which allows users to choose each part of the test system from any vendor. Ultimately, this new alliance will give the UK market more choice and a greater opportunity to cut costs when designing PXI based test systems."