National Instruments PXIe-7965 PXI FPGA Module for FlexRIO

The NI PXIe-7965 (PXIe-7965R) is a PXI FPGA Module for FlexRIO designed by National Instruments. This module has 132 single-ended I/O lines, which can be arranged as 66 differential pairs as well. This FPGA Module also has two separately accessible 256 MB banks of onboard DRAM. The PXIe-7965 module can be utilized with FlexRIO adapter modules which provide high-performance analog and digital I/O. With this combination, the result is a reconfigurable device that the user can program with LabVIEW FPGA software. The FPGA of the PXIe 7965 FPGA Module for FlexRIO has a speed grade of -1. The FPGA speed grade is different from the PXIe-7966 (speed grade of -2), but all other specifications are the same for these two modules.

The NI PXIe-7965 also supports peer-to-peer streaming, which straightforwardly transports information among numerous FPGA modules or certain PXI Express modules and does not transmit information to the host processor. This capability allows the user to add FPGA features to high-performance digitizers with NIST-traceable calibration. The user can additionally expand their FPGA algorithms across numerous FPGAs for applications involving lots of computations. This module can be employed without an adapter module for functions like coprocessing or peer-to-peer streaming.

A unique option for an adapter module is the capability for the user to create their own customized adapter module. This can be accomplished with the National Instruments FlexRIO Adapter Module Development Kit (MDK) and is useful if the user cannot find a FlexRIO adapter module to fit their application.