Salient Features

• Reconfigurable Xilinx Spartan FPGA with 144 I/O points.
• Two isolated Analog input output channel configurable in the range of 0-5/10 V.
• 4 potential free contacts and 8 optical digital I/Os are present to interface with external system.
• Three communication ports - RS232, RS485 and optical fibre (dual purpose i.e can be used for communication or synchronization with external event) are present.
• On-board diagnostics and testing of FPGA I/O logic.
• 8 interlock input signals with hard-wired trip action.
• Programmable baud rate from 9.6 to 230.4kbps.

Specifications

• Xilinx Spartan 3 series FPGA as main controller.
• 2-Isolated Channels of 16 bit ADC.
• 2-Isolated Channels of 16 bit DAC.
• Three communications interfaces: RS232, RS485 and optical fibre interfaces.
• 4 potential free I/O and 8 digital I/O.
• 8 Interlock and local hard-wired gating.
• Provision for accommodation of new requirements.

Applications

• It is being used as a Main control unit for supervisory and monitoring of various sub-systems in Microtron.
• It can be used to convert from one custom protocol to another protocol over serial link.
• It can be used to store data for diagnostics purpose based on an event.