NI serial boards with 2Mbps data rates

The included NI-Mite ASIC technology delivers DMA memory mapping, PCI bus mastering and scatter-gather technology for superior CPU utilization. Engineers can communicate on all eight ports simultaneously at rates up to 2Mbps with little or no effect on the CPU, freeing up the processor for virtual instrumentation applications that include data acquisition, analysis and presentation. The new boards also offer flexible baud rates to achieve between 57bps and 2Mbps for non-standard rates, and to within 1 percent accuracy and 0.01 percent accuracy for standard rates.