VTI Instruments Corporation sells precision instrumentation for electronic signal distribution,

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and monitoring. The company's products are used to automate the functional testing of complex electronic systems as well as to monitor and record data that characterizes the physical integrity of aircraft, engines, and other large structures. Formerly known as VXI Technology, it changed its name in 2009. VTI serves the following markets:

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, defense, and energy and power generation. VTI's headquarters is located in

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History

Founded in 1990, VTI initially developed prototyping tools and offered custom design services. By 1997, VTI had introduced two new VXI-based instrumentation and signal switching platforms for functional test/

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– the VMIP and SMIP series. In 2003, VTI purchased Agilent's mechanical test business unit, which expanded the company's product offering to address precision data acquisition and signal conditioning applications. In 2005, VTI cofounded the

LXI LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation (LXI) is a standard developed by the LXI Consortium, a consortium that maintains the LXI specification and promotes the LXI Standard. The LXI standard defines the communication protocols for instrumentation and d ...

standard, an Ethernet-based instrumentation platform for both rack and distributed applications. VTI's first

Class A products were on the market by 2006 . In 2009, VTI introduced the EX1266 as the industry's first

Class A modular switching and

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. On February 10, 2014 VTI Instruments was acquired by

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, Inc., Berwyn, PA, for a reported price of $74 million. VTI Instruments annual sales at the time were approximately $38 million.WSJ MarketWatch
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References

External links

VTI Instruments website

Agilent Technologies and VXI Technology Announce Next-Generation LAN-Based Modular Platform Standard for Automated Test Systems

VXI Technology Completes Acquisition of Agilent Technologies’ Mechanical Data Acquisition Product Segment

Industry’s First LXI Class A Scalable Switch and Measurement Subsystem
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