Pickering Interfaces
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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.
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[edit] Company History
- 1968 - Pickering Electronics[1] 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[2].
- 2005 - Pickering and Agilent were the first companies to release LXI certified products[3] [4], 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Test Industry Associations
- Pickering are Strategic members of the LXI consortium, [5].
- Sponsor level members of the PXI Systems Alliance, [6]
