medical devices founded 1997 founder dr. fred bloennigen headquarters shannon co. clare ireland key people dr. fred bloennigen ceo products vxi lxi daq website www.bustec.com bustec is a company that designs and manufactures instrumentation for high performance data acquisition and instrument control . the company s products serve applications that include engine testing automotive and missile testing wind tunnel data acquisition and control acoustics vibration applications aircraft component testing and more . headquarters is located in shannon co. clare ireland . contents 1 history 2 products 3 identification 4 references 5 external links history edit bustec was founded in 1997 in ireland by dr. fred bloennigen current ceo . in 2000 the company opened its branch in the usa . the company is one of the sponsor members of the vxi consortium 1 where it is actively working on the new vxi 4.0 standard . 2 3 it also introduced the first to market vxi 4.0 slot 0 controller with a hot pluggable pcie x4 connection to host server . in 2008 the company joined the lxi consortium 4 5 as an informational member introducing one of the very first lxi 1.3 class a devices with ieee 1588 2008 ptp support . bustec products are used or are selected to be used in various projects . most notable include agusta westland s helicopter wind tunnel testing 6 7 8 honeywell s testing of computers for the international space station vxi slot 0 modules for rohde & schwarz atos origin s monitoring of nuclear power plants in france and lockheed martin s ecass system for the united states navy . 9 10 11 products edit bustec s products are modular . a vxi or lxi interface backend vxi motherboard or lxi carrier device can be equipped with various bustec s function cards . this approach is a flexible solution because the modules can be configured to meet system specific needs allowing better space utilization . the function cards include adc dac digital io and counter timer cards . up to 8 such function cards can be mounted on a single vxi size c motherboard and up to 4 of them in the 1u half width lxi carrier . apart from that bustec provides also signal conditioning units and vxi slot 0 modules . vxi slot 0 module solutions include embedded pcs windows linux and vxworks pcie hot plug enabled vxibus slot 0 interface usb 2.0 vxibus slot 0 interface . bustec s visa implementation supports vxi gpib and vxi 11 over tcp ip . identification edit pci vendor id 0x1bcb mac address prefix 00 30 4e vxi manufacturer id 0xe70 references edit members list . vxi bus . 2011 03 14 . retrieved 2012 09 19 . vxi 1 revision 4.0 presentation at autotestcon 2010 . reuters . 2010 08 30 . retrieved 2012 09 19 . how your application can profit from this new specification pdf . vxibus.org . retrieved 2012 09 18 . lxi consortium home lxi consortium members . lxistandard.org . retrieved 2012 09 19 . business wire 2008 09 08 . bustec joins lxi consortium . business wire . retrieved 2012 09 19 . high throughput acquisition systemfor wind tunnel testing pdf . vxibus.org . retrieved 2012 09 18 . custom solutions . sts soft.com . retrieved 2012 09 19 . wind tunnel international 2009 . issuu.com . 2009 10 14 . retrieved 2012 09 19 . shannon development property solutions www.shannondevelopment.ie . shannondevelopment.ie . 2011 04 15 . retrieved 2012 09 19 . bustec awarded 21m military deal irish developer network ict portal . irishdev.com . 2011 04 15 . retrieved 2012 09 19 . lockheed martin advances ecass with bustec vxi interface . reuters . 2011 05 24 . retrieved 2012 09 19 . external links edit bustec website vxi bus consortium lxi consortium retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bustec & oldid 647148733 categories electronic test equipment manufacturersmanufacturing companies established in 1997companies of ireland navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 20 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view