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Digital I/O

National Instruments provides a complete family of digital I/O products with a wide range of speed, voltage, and timing options. Whether generating advanced patterns to characterize a custom circuit, toggling control lines to automate a factory floor, or prototyping a digital design, NI digital I/O devices can meet the needs of your test, control, and design applications.

Find the Right Digital I/O Device

Form Factor
CompactDAQ |
CompactRIO |
PCI |
PCI Express |
PCMCIA |
PXI |
PXI Express |
SCXI |
USB
OS Support
Windows |
Real-Time |
Linux |
Mac OS |
Pocket PC |
RTX
Isolation Type
Bank Isolation |
Ch-Ch Isolation |
Ch-Earth Ground Isolation
Digital I/O Data Rate
At least 100 kb/s |
At least 1 Mb/s |
At least 20 Mb/s |
At least 100 Mb/s
Digital I/O Timing
Hardware |
Software
Digital I/O Logic Levels
TTL |
LVTTL |
LVDS |
1.8 V |
2.5 V |
3.3 V |
5 V |
12 V |
24 V |
> 24 V |
Programmable |
Other
Counter/Timers
At least 1 |
At least 2 |
At least 4 |
At least 8 |
None
Triggering
Analog |
Digital

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Digital I/O Product Families

High-Speed Digital I/O

Digital waveform generators/analyzers feature maximum clock rates up to 200 MHz, data rates as high as 200 MB/s, and flexible single-ended and differential voltage levels for PCI, PCI Express, PXI, and PCMCIA.

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Industrial Digital I/O

Industrial digital I/O devices offer a set of industrial features including isolation, change detection, programmable input filters, watchdog timers, and programmable power-up states. Control switches, relays, fans, lights, and motors interface with other industrial actuators and sensors.

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Reconfigurable Digital I/O

R Series intelligent DAQ devices offer up to 160 digital lines that are reconfigurable for inputs, outputs, counter/timers, pulse width modulation (PWM) interfaces, encoders, or user-defined communication protocols. Use the National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA Module to create NI LabVIEW block diagrams that execute on an FPGA chip for hardware-timed speed and reliability.

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Counter/Timers

National Instruments counter/timer devices feature up to an 80 MHz high-precision timebase, GPS synchronization, channel-to-channel isolation, and debouncing filters for measuring time-related quantities, counting events or totalizing, generating pulses, and interfacing with encoders.

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