Pickering Interfaces

Pickering Interfaces

Pickering Interfaces is a Test and Measurement company headquartered in Clacton-on-Sea, UK. Pickering design, manufacture and market a range of programmable switching, instrumentation and cabling products in the LXI, PXI, IEEE-488, PCI and VXI platforms. These products are sold into the functional test and design verifications markets.

Pickering is a privately owned company with design and manufacturing facilities in Clacton-on-Sea, UK and Trinec in the Czech Republic, together with additional company operated direct sales and support operations in the USA (East and West Coast), Germany, France, Sweden and China.

Company History

* 1968 - Pickering Electronics [http://www.applegate.co.uk/elec/company/co_6541.htm] company formed to design and manufacture high reliability reed relays for the new Automatic Test Equipment market.
* 1988 - Pickering Interfaces formed as a sister company and launches it's first product an IEEE-488 controlled modular switching system, System 10, in the 3U modular format.
* 1990 - High performance IEEE-488 switching solution, System 20, launched in the 6U modular format.
* 1995 - High density VXI Switching module range, System 30, released.
* 1998 - First PXI switch card released, System 40.
* 2000 - Pickering enter the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) switching card market with System 50.
* 2002 - Pickering release the BRIC range of ultra high density switch modules in the PXI format with over 4000 relays per module, the highest density available in any test platform.
* 2005 - Pickering now have released over 500 PXI Modules [http://www.eeproductcenter.com/test-measure/review/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=190400302] .
* 2005 - Pickering and Agilent were the first companies to release LXI certified products [http://www.tmworld.com/article/CA6291707.html] [http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2006/01/25/37467/lxi+puts+testers+on+the+network.htm] , Pickering with the 60-100 modular switching product available with over 500 switch cards at launch.
* 2007 - Many additional LXI matrix, microwave, RF, optical, high voltage and power switching products released.

Principal Product Range

Pickering's primary products are in the LXI and PXI platforms, specifically in programmable switching, attenuators, resistors, power supplies, basic instrumentation and cabling for these products.

Test Industry Associations

* Pickering are Strategic members of the LXI consortium, [http://www.lxistandard.org] .
* Sponsor level members of the PXI Systems Alliance, [http://www.pxisa.org]

External links

* [http://www.tmworld.com/article/CA6401438.html PXI book introduces LXI concepts]
* [http://www.pickeringtest.com Pickering Interfaces web site]
* [http://www.pickeringrelay.com Pickering Electronics reed relay web site]
* [http://www.evaluationengineering.com/todays_news/091807LXI-standard.aspx Learn about LXI from Pickering LXImate book]


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