What's New with CompactRIO
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This document provides a brief description of NI CompactRIO as well as an overview of the newest products available for the CompactRIO platform.
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High-Performance CompactRIO
When your application needs the highest-performance, and most flexible CompactRIO systems, the High-Performance CompactRIO line is what you are looking for. They combine the highest-performance real-time controller with a user-upgradable backplane that includes the largest and most powerful field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) available from National Instruments. CompactRIO High-Performance systems have the most amount of processing power and resources that make these systems ideal for advanced control applications, high speed data transfer and logging, and processing intensive applications. The modular systems work with the easy-to-use NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment to help you develop real-time and FPGA applications.
Rugged Performance CompactRIO
Rugged Performance CompactRIO systems offer a high level of performance and flexibility, and are the most rugged CompactRIO systems. They combine a 400 MHz real-time controller with a user-upgradable backplane that includes the largest and most powerful field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) available from National Instruments. CompactRIO modular systems also boast the highest level of ruggedness for the CompactRIO platform, with 50 g shock ratings and a wide -40 to 70 °C operating temperature that make these systems ideal for automotive, industrial automation, and advanced control applications. The modular systems work with the easy-to-use NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment to help you develop real-time and FPGA applications.
Value CompactRIO Integrated Systems
CompactRIO integrated systems offer a value line of CompactRIO systems that features the high performance of the CompactRIO architecture with a smaller feature set compared to the CompactRIO modular systems. The integrated systems combine the CompactRIO real-time controller with an eight-slot backplane in a single chassis that includes the user-programmable FPGA. These integrated systems work with the easy-to-use NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment to help you develop real-time and FPGA applications.
What’s New
NI cRIO-9022 High-Performance Real-Time Controller
The NI cRIO-9022 high-performance real-time controller is the fastest real-time controller in the CompactRIO family. It features a 533 MHz power architecture real-time processor, 256 MB of RAM for user programs, and 2 GB of nonvolatile storage for holding programs and logging data. Dual Ethernet ports provide standard network communication including built-in Web and FTP servers as well as support for the NI 9144 C Series expansion chassis, which offers additional slots for NI C Series I/O modules.
The cRIO-9022 is compatible with previous generations of the CompactRIO reconfigurable FPGA chassis as well as with the new NI 911x reconfigurable chassis. Regardless of the chassis used, the cRIO-9022 is ideal for applications requiring high performance, processing, and data throughput rates.
NI cRIO-911x Reconfigurable Chassis
The five new cRIO-911x reconfigurable chassis provide a significant increase in both FPGA size and performance over the previous generation of CompactRIO chassis at the same or lower price. They not only offer the largest FPGAs to date in CompactRIO hardware, but also provide design improvements such as six-input lookup tables (versus four-input for Virtex-II and Spartan FPGAs) and more efficient routing tools. The new chassis are shown in the below table.
| Chassis | Number of C Series I/O Slots | FPGA |
| cRIO-9111 | 4 | Virtex-5 LX 30 |
| cRIO-9112 | 8 | Virtex-5 LX 30 |
| cRIO-9113 | 4 | Virtex-5 LX 50 |
| cRIO-9114 | 8 | Virtex-5 LX 50 |
| cRIO-9116 | 8 | Virtex-5 LX 85 |
These five new chassis, available in four- and eight-slot versions, are completely compatible with NI cRIO-9012/4 and cRIO-9022 controllers. They all support the new easy-to-use CompactRIO Scan Mode programming. The cRIO-911x chassis are ideal for extremely rugged applications that require high-performance custom control, triggering, timing, or signal processing.
NI cRIO-9073 Integrated System
The new NI cRIO-9073 CompactRIO integrated system is an extension of the current integrated system offering. It combines an industrial real-time processor and reconfigurable FPGA within a single chassis. The cRIO-9073 integrates a 266 MHz real-time processor with a 2M gate FPGA and has eight slots for C Series I/O modules. It is the lowest-cost system in the CompactRIO family to fully support easy-to-use CompactRIO Scan Mode programming.
NI 9144 Deterministic Ethernet Expansion Chassis for CompactRIO
The NI 9144 is an eight-slot rugged chassis for NI C Series modules that you can use to add deterministic, distributed I/O to CompactRIO systems. With standard CAT 5 Ethernet cabling (up to 100 m between nodes), this chassis communicates deterministically with any CompactRIO or real-time PXI system that has two Ethernet ports. You can daisy chain multiple NI 9144 slave chassis from the controller to expand time-critical applications to high-channel counts while maintaining hard determinism with minimal processor resources.
The NI 9144 works with the easy-to-use NI LabVIEW graphical programming environment to help you develop real-time and FPGA applications.
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