Pxi Express Hybrid Slots

PXI Express Desktop Chassis, 4 U, 44 HP 1 PXIe System slot an 7 Hybrid slots Ultra-high performance Gen 3 PCIe switching with a default four-link (4x4) system slot Powerful cooling concept with low fan noise, 50 W per slot @ 15K temperature increase. The left most slot (slot 1) is reserved for the system controller, if used, or remote PXIe controller. Slot 10 is a system timing slot which can be used by a PXIe system timing module or a PXIe peripheral module. Slots 2 through 5 and 15 through 18 are hybrid card slots that can handle hybrid compatible PXI, PXIe or 32 bit cPCI peripheral modules. In order to preserve the backward compatibility with PXI modules, PXI Express specifies PXI Express hybrid slots to deliver signals for both the PCI and PCI Express formats. PCI Express electrical lines connect the system slot controller to the hybrid slots of the backplane, and as a result PXI Express is able to provide a high-bandwidth path. 1 PXI Express system slot 2 PXI-1 peripheral slot, i.e. The basic PXI before PXIe was introduced. 3 PXI Express hybrid slot - i.e. It will accommodate both PXIe, and the basic PXI 4 PXI Express only peripheral slot. The PXI Express system timing slot accepts a PXI Express module or a PXI Express system timing controller for advanced timing and synchronization. The PXI Express hybrid slots deliver connectivity to either a x8 PCI Express link or to the 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI bus on the backplane. NI PXIe-1085 12 GB/s Chassis Backplane.

Article update on May 2016

Since more and more systems natively are based on Express chipsets and offer hybrid PXI/PXIe slots instead of pure PXI slots Spectrum added a new option to modify the original Spectrum PXI card of the MX series (see picture below) for PXI/PXIe hybrid slot compatibility. This option MX.xxxx-hyb is available at purchase time as well as for a later update of an existing card. Please contact Spectrum for further details. The picture on the right hand shows the modified card of the MX series with option MX.xxxx-hyb installed.

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The Spectrum PXI cards of the MX series (see picture of the original card on the right) need standard PXI slot and do not fit into PXI hybrid slots due to the connector.

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The picture below taken as example from the National Instruments PXIe-1062Q PXI hybrid chassis shows in red the slots where the Spectrum MX cards won't fit into and in green the slots where the Spectrum MX card would fit: