Pickering Interfaces

Pickering Interfaces is a test and measurement company headquartered in Clacton-on-Sea, UK. Pickering designs, manufactures and markets a range of programmable switching, instrumentation and cabling products in the LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation, PXI, IEEE-488, PCI and VXI platforms. These products are sold into the functional test, hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) 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.

1 Company history
2 Principal Product Range
3 PIckering Interfaces Group of Companies
4 Test Industry Associations
5 External links

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 its 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.
2009 - The company introduced Built In Relay Self Test (BIRST) into its PXI Matrix product line.[5][6]
2011 - Autotestcon Conference/Exposition, Baltimore, September 12th: PIckering Interfaces launch 13 new PXI/LXI products [7].

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.