Product category: Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Diamond Systems | Subject: GPIO-MM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 April 2006
FPGA adds flexibility
to digital I/O module
The GPIO-MM is a highly flexible and reconfigurable PC/104 digital I/O module based on a Xilinx Spartan II FPGA
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New from Diamond Systems, the GPIO-MM is a highly flexible and reconfigurable PC/104 digital I/O module based on a Xilinx Spartan II FPGA. Use of an FPGA to implement the digital I/O logic allows the GPIO-MM hardware to be reprogrammed, in the field if necessary, to serve multiple PC/104 I/O applications with different digital I/O requirements.
GPIO-MM uses onboard Flash memory to store the FPGA code.
Memory may be reprogrammed using a JTAG interface.
The initial release of the module includes FPGA code to configures GPIO-MM with 48 programmable-direction digital I/O pins based on 8255 cores, eight fixed-input signals, eight fixed-output signals, and ten 16bit counter/timers based on 9513 cores, supported by a 40MHz clock.
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Alliance creates ready-to-run embedded systems
Diamond Systems has signed an agreement with Suntron Systems to create the OEM Ready Solutions programme
Analogue input board handles its own calibration
The DMM-32X-AT analogue I/O PC/104 module features patented technology to automatically calibrate itself whenever needed without any user intervention
Three pin headers provide a total of 100 I/O pins.
This initial configuration is backwards compatible with Diamond Systems' Quartz-MM and Garnet-MM series of fixed configuration PC/104 I/O boards.
An onboard EEPROM provides 256byte of user-accessible storage, typically used for configuration information.
The GPIO-MM operates over an extended range of -40 to +85C, and is supported by Diamond Systems' Universal Software Driver, which operates with popular embedded operating systems including Windows 98/2000/XP, Windows CE, Linux, DOS, QNX and VxWorks.
A design kit offering cables, software drivers and documentation is also available.
The GPIO-MM is priced at $180 in quantities up to nine units.
Volume discounts apply when purchasing 10 or more units.
GPIO MM is available now for evaluation.
Production volume will be available in 30 days.
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