NI signs mobile test deal with Cobham

National Instruments has formed a PXI partnership with Cobham Wireless, formerly the wireless test business of Aeroflex, which will see NI acquiring the existing Cobham PXI modular instruments product line.

National Instruments 5644R

NI will manufacture the PXI modular instruments and supply them exclusively to Cobham which will sell them under its own brand.

PXI modules will be incorporated into more of Cobham’s mobile test systems, including NI’s vector signal transceiver with LabView FPGA.

“With increased test complexity and faster design cycles, we chose to build our RF and wireless test systems based on NI’s industry-leading PXI modular instrumentation technology,” said Ian Langley, senior vice president and general manager of the Cobham Wireless business unit.

According to Pete Zogas, senior vice president of Segments and Services at NI: “Our customers will benefit greatly from the combination of the NI platform and Cobham’s domain-specific expertise within the cellular and connectivity application space.”

Cobham operates a test business in the UK through the former Marconi Instruments business which Aeroflex acquired a decade ago.