The LXI Consortium announced that 150 product developers, system integrators and university professors attended its General Meeting in Beijing, China, June 19-21, 2007.
Consortium members from around the world made presentations to increase awareness of LXI in Chinese industry and to help system integrators and product developers better understand LXI so that they can develop products and applications utilizing the technology.
In a podcast from the meeting, Bob Rennard, LXI Consortium president, stated that the Consortium chose to hold a General Meeting in Beijing because China is an important center of test and measurement technology in Asia. He goes on to describe the benefits of membership and how to join the Consortium. The podcast is available on the LXI site at www.lxistandard.org/about/events/.
One goal of holding the meeting in Beijing is to develop a solid LXI user base in China to promote adoption of the test instrument technology and learn more about applications particular to this region of the world. The meeting will also strengthen the Consortium's ties to The China LXI Committee, a grass-roots effort consisting of about 100 Chinese universities, research institutes and manufacturers.
Introduced in 2005, the LXI Standard has been rapidly adopted by 50 companies, representing a who's who of the test-and-measurement industry. They recognize LXI as the natural successor to GPIB, and that it is time for instruments to go beyond GPIB to make it easier for test system designers and integrators to create faster, more efficient systems.