LXI Consortium expands into China

May 22, 2008 4:48 PM

The LXI Consortium has accepted RIGOL Technologies as the first member from Mainland China. RIGOL Technologies attended the Beijing LXI PlugFest last June and subsequently became not only the first Chinese company to join the Consortium, but also the first to certify an LXI product in February. The RIGOL DS1204B digital oscilloscope was certified within six months of the company's membership. RIGOL Technologies manufactures digital oscilloscopes, functional/arbitrary waveform generators, digital multimeters, and virtual instruments with LXI capability.

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"By introducing products with a new architecture within six months of joining, RIGOL illustrates how the global adoption of LXI is being accelerated by the simplicity of the LXI certification process," said Bob Rennard, president of the LXI Consortium. "It also illustrates how attending a PlugFest can facilitate the certification process by providing access to members who are demonstrating best practices, tutorials and presentations, and answering questions on how to build LXI test systems."

"RIGOL Technologies is developing LXI instruments because customers have asked for a GPIB replacement and we feel that LXI is the next step in computer control of instruments for systems," said Jack Brand, general manager RIGOL Technologies US. "We believe that our being a member of the Consortium gives our customers the confidence to use our products in their systems. As for how we accomplished being certified so quickly, we credit the dedication of our engineers as well as the staff at the LXI Consortium, whom we found to be very helpful."

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