Pickering Interfaces is a test and measurement company headquartered in Clacton-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Pickering designs, manufactures and markets a range of switching, simulation and cabling products in the LXI, PXI, and PCI platforms. These products are sold into the functional test, hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) and design verifications markets.
Pickering is a privately owned company with design and manufacturing facilities in Clacton-on-Sea, UK and Trinec in the Czech Republic, together with additional company operated direct sales and support operations in the USA (East and West Coast), Germany, France, Sweden and China.
1968 - Pickering Electronics[1] company formed to design and manufacture high reliability reed relays for the new Automatic Test Equipment market.
1988 - Pickering Interfaces formed as a sister company and launches its first product an IEEE-488 controlled modular switching system, System 10, in the 3U modular format.
1990 - High performance IEEE-488 switching solution, System 20, launched in the 6U modular format.
1995 - High-density VXI Switching module range, System 30, released.
1998 - First PXI switch card released, System 40.
2000 - Pickering enter the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) switching card market with System 50.
2002 - Pickering release the BRIC range of ultra high-density switch modules in the PXI format with over 4000 relays per module, the highest density available in any test platform.
2005 - Pickering now have released over 500 PXI Modules [2].
2005 - Pickering and Agilent were the first companies to release LXI certified products [3] [4], Pickering with the 60-100 modular switching product available with over 500 switch cards at launch.
2007 - Many additional LXI matrix, microwave, RF, optical, high voltage and power switching products released.
2009 - The company introduced Built In Relay Self Test (BIRST) into its PXI Matrix product line.[5][6]
2011 - Autotestcon Conference/Exposition, Baltimore, September 12: Pickering Interfaces launch 13 new PXI/LXI products [7].
2013 - Pickering Interfaces launch 13 new PXI, LXI & PCI products
2014 - Partnership with OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Fault Insertion testing.
2014 - Pickering announces significant milestone of offering over 1,000 PXI modules
2014 - Pickering Interfaces launch 17 new PXI & PCI products
2015 - Pickering Interfaces introduces eBIRST Switching System Test Tools for PXI, LXI & PCI products.
2016 - Pickering Interfaces introduces Switch Path Manager Signal Routing Software.
2016 - Pickering Interfaces introduces Cable Design Tool an online tool to create customized cable assemblies.
2016 - Pickering Interfaces introduces PXI Thermocouple Simulator Modules ideal for simulating the operation of a thermocouple.
2016 - Pickering Interfaces introduces 2-Slot USB/LXI Modular Chassis a small lightweight form factor, making it ideal for portable, benchtop, and space restrictive applications. .
Pickering's primary products are in the PXI, LXI and PCI platforms, specifically in switching, programmable resistors, attenuators, power supplies, basic instrumentation and cabling for these products.
Pickering Interfaces Ltd, Clacton-on-Sea, England.
PIckering Interfaces Inc, Grant Pass, OR, USA.
Pickering Interfaces s.r.o., Trinec, Czech Republic.
Pickering Interfaces GmbH, Haar-Salmdorf, Munich, Germany.
Pickering Interfaces SARL, Noisel, Paris, France.
Pickering Interfaces AB, Varberg, Sweden.
品英仪器（北京）有限公司, 北京, China.
Pickering are Strategic members of the LXI consortium, [8].
Sponsor level members of the PXI Systems Alliance, [9]
