National Instruments Products Now RoHS Compliant
June 16, 2006
National Instruments (NI) announced the release of several products that comply with the NI Hazardous Substances Reduction initiative.
This NI initiative is a voluntary program modeled after the European Union (EU) Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which restricts the use of harmful substances such as lead, mercury and cadmium in new equipment.
A newly compliant instrument control system and a data acquisition system are the first RoHS-compliant NI products released this year. The products include:
- PCI-GPIB high-performance plug-and-play IEEE 488 interface.
- GPIB-ENET/100 high-performance Ethernet-to-GPIB controller.
- PCI-6289 M Series data acquisition board.
- SHC68-68-EPM high-performance shielded cable.
- SCC-68 high-performance terminal block.
NI also offers RoHS-compliant GPIB interface chips.
The EU RoHS directive restricts the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) in new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market in the EU after July 1.
The RoHS directive applies to eight categories of electrical and electronic equipment but excludes products in Category 9, Monitoring and Control Instruments, under which NI products fall.
For more information on the NI RoHS initiative and information on specific product plans, visit www.ni.com/environment/rohs.
Source: National Instruments (NI).