PXI and Instrumentation Idea Exchange

Using RT Utilities or RAD works well to image and deploy when you have like systems. What about when there are many deployments to maintain, each with the same RTEXE and same driver sets, but there are many different models of PXI RT embedded controllers throughout these deployments? What if it was possible to install software to a SIMULATED PXI in MAX as well as to deploy executables and support files to? This would allow for the creation of an image for a specific model controller, without having that controller directly in hand. (BTW, I'm still on LV2013 SP1 for the next few months. I have 42 RT embedded targets that include a mix of the following models: 8196, 8104, 8102, 8115, 8100, 8135, 8820, 8840, and 9139. The same RTEXE runs on all of these. The end-user can customize I/O at run-time and therefore these deployments range quite widely in performance needs and these deployments were created over several years, hence the wide range of embedded controller vintages and performance levels. And, for my scenario, these controllers are not directly accessible through the network, as they are connected to a local network specific to that deployment location. There is a Windows host machine that has access to this local network as well as to the building network.)

I have an upcoming requirement for connecting two test equipment racks so that one contains a control computer and PXI chassis and the second rack contains another PXI chassis. The control computer will include a two-port MXI Master PXIe card, and each PXI chassis an MXI Slave card.

The problem arises that there is no means to bring out an MXI cable from one rack to the other, except through a hole, rather than a proper feed-through connector.

I can design and build a back-to-back pair of MXI matching Molex connectors on a small PCB, but a qualified, tested, and approved OEM solution would be much better.