The VM6068 is a high-performance serial interface card that can be configured to support many serial interfaces, and not just the traditionally supported UART. It is a message-based instrument which has a SCPI-compatible command set and VXIplug&play drivers for ease of use. In order to support high data throughput, the VM6068 provides a large amount of memory, along with register-based data access.
Each VM6068 has four serial interfaces that can be configured independently to implement different protocols. The instrument can be configured programmatically – it does not need to be opened, and there are no switches to set for a given configuration, making it one of the most flexible serial interfaces on the market.
VM6068 is a member of the VXI Modular Instrumentation Platform (VMIP™) family and can be made available as a four, eight, or twelve channel, single-wide VXIbus instrument. In addition to these three standard configurations, it can be combined with any of the other members of the VMIP™ family to form a highly integrated instrument.