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3000 Series & 4000 Series Switching
VXI Bus Products |
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Switching is an undeniably crucial aspect of system design. Choosing a poor switch product can compromise the signal integrity of the system, severely crippling its performance. It is important to select the highest quality switch modules to ensure that your system is performing at its best. Giga-tronics switching makes certain that your system will function exactly how it was intended.
3000 Series
ASCOR has designed a comprehensive family of VXI Switching Modules - each tailored to its specific function, in order to minimise customer integration chores.
4000 Series
Traditionally ATE systems have been designed using switching components wired together to form a system switch.
This is especially true of VXI switch modules that are combined through external wiring components. The instrumentation then requires additional wiring to be integrated into this maze of switches. The biggest drawbacks to this approach are the loss of performance due to mismatched impedance, signal loses due to long cables and higher resistive, capacitive or inductive loads due to poor wiring design. It is always ideal to design a good switch system to minimise cabling and match impedances. ASCOR has designed a new family of switches that does just that using the existing 4000 series multi-slot carrier.
Replacing the traditional VXI card front panel with a standard Virginia Panel TAC connector allows the Device InterfaceBoard (DIB) to mate directly to the 4500 Series switch card. Test engineers no longer need to install a custom cable assembly between the individual switch card front panels and the DIB interface. The 4500 Series ensures test signal integrity by shielding all signal connections starting from the internal switch assemblies through impedance matched transmission lines to the TAC connector interface. The standardised interfaces allow convenient card removal from the front for rapid maintenance and configuration changes. |
