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an Industrial Internet of Things edge node in extremely
harsh locations including spray down manufacturing
environments, test cells and outdoor locations without
the need for a protective enclosure. The IP67 rating
helps ensure reliable operation in the presence of dust
and water, in accordance to IEC standard 60529.
Industrial Controllers are high-performance, fanless
devices that deliver high levels of processing power
and connectivity for automated image processing,
data acquisition and control applications in extreme
environments. These controllers feature up to a 2.2 GHz
Intel Core i7 dual-core processor, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, 64 GB
storage, four Power over Ethernet (PoE) GigE ports, two
USB 3.0 ports and two DisplayPorts in a rugged design with
no moving parts, and now with an IP rating up to IP67.
Industrial Controllers also include a user-programmable
Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA, which improves system performance
by providing custom I/O timing, synchronization, control
and image coprocessing capabilities.
“NI’s Industrial Controllers have a robust set of I/O
resources that allow us to use one controller for every
facet of our automation needs including testing, vision,
motion control and digital I/O,” said Jordan Larson,
manufacturing engineer at Federal-Mogul Powertrain.
“By utilizing the built-in EtherCAT Master for motion and
conditioned I/O, we have greatly reduced the wiring and
debugging time of the automation machines that we
build. With Industrial Controllers, we also have brought
the cost per camera down tremendously compared to
other cameras previously used for machine vision. Using
NI’s Industrial Controllers, we have reduced the number
of components inside our machines and have all our
control software on one platform, which was something
we were unable to do previously.”
Industrial Controllers are part of a growing number of
products from NI that support Time Sensitive Networking
(TSN), the next evolution of the IEEE 802.1 Ethernet
standard that delivers distributed time synchronization,
low latency and convergence of time-critical and
general networking traffic. In addition to using TSN for
controller-to-controller communication, engineers can
also integrate highly synchronized sensor measurements
using the new TSN-enabled CompactDAQ Chassis
released earlier this year.
Enhances client SSD line-up with the
addition of premium XG5-P Series with
increased performance and capacity
Toshiba Memory Corporation, the world leader in memory
solutions, has enhanced its line-up of client SSDs with
the launch of premium models in its XG5-P series. The
new NVM Express™ (NVMe™) client SSDs improve on the
performance of the current XG5 series models and double
the maximum capacity to 2TB[1]. Sample shipments to
OEM customers start today in limited quantities, and
Toshiba Memory Corporation will gradually increase
shipments from the first calendar quarter of 2018.
The XG5-P series also utilizes a PCI Express
®
(PCIe
®
)
Gen3 x 4 lane and NVM Express™ Revision 1.2.1
interface, and delivers performance of up to 3000 MB/s
sequential read and 2200 MB/s sequential write[2], and
up to 320,000 IOPS random read and 265,000 IOPS
random write[3]. Its random read/write performance
in full access range[4] is approximately 55% better
than that of standard XG5 series[5] products. At the
same time, low power consumption is maintained at
less than 60mW during operation[6].
The new XG5-P series is housed in a standard M.2 2280 form
factor and will be available in two capacities, 1TB and 2TB.
By utilizing a 64-layer, 3D flash memory BiCS FLASH™ 1TB
package developed in-house, the 2TB model offers twice
the maximum storage capacity of the standard XG5 series
on the same 2.23mm, lightweight single-sided M.2 2280
module. By maintaining a single form factor for all capacities
across the XG5-P and XG5 product families, Toshiba Memory
Corporation makes it easier to design platforms that need
flexible storage.
The XG5-P SSDs will also be available in self-encrypting
drive (SED) models[7] supporting TCG Opal Version
2.01, contributing to a wide range of applications
including workstations, gaming PCs and read-intensive
enterprise use.
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