GE Intelligent Platforms Signs Agreement with National Instruments

GE Intelligent Platforms, global provider of software, hardware, services and expertise in automation and embedded computing, has recently announced that the company has signed a tie up with National Instruments to distribute GE Reflective Memory Module solutions.

The Reflective Memory will enable National Instrument’s customers to develop real time, deterministic local area networks for challenging testing simulation applications.

In a release, the Manager, Commercial Product Management at GE Intelligent Platforms (News - Alert), Wayne McGee, said, “Reflective Memory is a technology that uniquely enables real time local area networks and in which each computer always has an up-to-date local copy of the shared memory set. These specialty networks are specifically designed to provide highly deterministic data communications, and deliver the tightly timed performance necessary for a variety of sophisticated, demanding distributed simulation and industrial control applications. As such, Reflective Memory is highly appropriate for the applications targeted by National Instruments (News - Alert), and can help NI achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.”

The GE Reflective Memory Module solution includes the nodes for VME, PCI (News - Alert) and PCI Express systems as well as in a PMC form factor, together with a Reflective Memory Hub that allows for optimum management of GE cPCI-5565PIO Reflective Memory PMC and PMC Carrier Card for 3U CompactPCI (News - Alert) systems.

The cPCI-5565PIO is based on the GE PMC-5565PIORC and supported by the 2Gbaud and features 256Mbytes of memory and multi-mode transceivers. It includes a customized carrier card which has been specifically designed to be configured with National Instrument’s PXI chassis as part of the company’s NI VeriStand real-time testing and simulation software platform.

The NI VeriStand is a software environment which has been designed to create real-time testing applications more efficiently. It further enables configuration of a multicore-ready real-time engine to execute tasks that include analog, digital, communication bus and field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based I/O interfaces; triggerable, multifile data logging; real-time stimulus generation; calculated channels; event alarming and alarm response routines.

The Senior Platform Manager for Real-Time Test at National Instruments, Ian Fountain, added, “Our business is about helping engineers and scientists more efficiently design, prototype, and deploy systems for test, control, and embedded design applications. Our customers continuously develop innovative technologies that impact millions of people. Adding the GE Reflective Memory to our NI VeriStand platform will help us deliver the network performance and reliability that those customers demand.”