VME-400 Multi-protocol and Multi I/O Intelligent VME IPack Carrier Board

The VME-400 is a high performance, multi-protocol VME solution to your communication requirements, supporting up to four 8/32MHz Industry Pack (IPack) modules. This new generation of intelligent carrier boards is powered by a StrongArm 200MHz RISC processor and comes with 1-2Mb of SRAM and 16Mb of shared memory, permitting it to buffer and process high-bandwidth communication between the VME host and the IPack interface modules. The On-board firmware allows scheduling of transmit messages and time-tags received messages with 32-bit microsecond precision, without requiring real-time intervention from the host system. Furthermore, multiple carrier boards can be time-synchronized resulting in unmatched precision in critical real-time applications. The VME-400 is complemented by MAX Technologies' IPack modules available for ARINC429/575/561/568/629, ASYNC RS422/485, CSDB, MIL-STD-1553A/B, 1760B, MacAir, STANAG3838, Digital I/O, A/D, D/A communication protocols. The VME-400 can also support hundreds of third-party digital and analog IPack modules.Moreover, multiple protocols can be implemented and run simultaneously on a single VME-400 carrier board and all the data transferred is time-synchronized, even between multiple protocols.Finally, the IPack module I/O signals are conveniently routed to two high-density DSUB front connectors for easy interfacing with external communication devices.

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