NI Single-Board RIO revealed

National Instruments (NI) has announced four new NI Single-Board RIO board-level embedded devices featuring a real-time processor, Spartan-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA), analog and digital I/O and more built-in peripherals for custom embedded control and monitoring applications.

The new devices provide engineers with off-the-shelf FPGA and real-time processor technology through NI LabVIEW while maintaining the custom I/O often required for high-volume deployments through the option of a RIO Mezzanine Card connector. The connector provides direct access to FPGA digital input/output (DIO) lines and certain processor-specific functions for mating custom daughter cards. NI Single-Board RIO alleviates the effort of designing an entire system from scratch. 

The devices also feature built-in analog I/O so engineers can take advantage of the company's analog expertise in addition to their application-specific circuitry. The devices' low-cost, small form factor, built-in I/O, real-time processor, and FPGA provide platform for embedded monitoring and control applications in industries such as medical and energy.