COTS Products Mass Storage Modules for VMEbus and CompactPCI® 3U cPCI I/O Cards are Ready for Space Duty When something goes wrong in space, problems quickly spell disaster. That’s why boards designed for such use need to be a cut above the rest. Serving such needs, Aitech Defense Systems now offers two radiation-tolerant 3U, CompactPCI (cPCI) I/O cards. The analog S930 and digital S940 FPGA-based cards both feature triple redundant buffer memory and can generate interrupts, eliminating the need for a more costly onboard processor to manage the I/O. The conduction-cooled cards come standard with component screening to NASA GSFC 311-INST-001A Level 2, making them suited for applications such as the International Space Station, where they are currently in use today. The S930 employs a 12-bit A/D converter that enhances subsystem sensitivity by detecting minute changes in externally sensed voltages. It also features 64 analog channels (51 inputs, two outputs and 11 bus voltage monitors) as well as a low pass filter with cutoff frequency below 50 Hz on all inputs. The S940 incorporates an H-bridge that efficiently provides pulse code modulation (PCM) control and drives the DC motors, and its four RS-422 inputs and 12 RS-422 outputs help DC motor controls sense how the motor is operating. Pricing for the S930 is $10,000, and for the S940 is $13,170 in OEM quantities.
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StackableUSB SBC Boasts Extended Temp Range Marrying the tried and true size and stacked concept of PC/104 with the fast, ubiquitous USB interconnect, the emerging StackableUSB specification seems to have hit a home run. Military developers are eyeing this technology as a migration path from ISA-based PC/104. Creator of StackableUSB, Micro/sys, has rolled out the newest addition to its StackableUSB line of SBCs. Called the SBC1496, the board operates from -40° to +85°C and provides I/O expansion via StackableUSB peripherals. In addition to PC-compatible features, such as SVGA and dual serial ports, the new model also includes four USB 2.0 high-speed (480 Mbit/s) ports, two USB 1.1 full-speed ports and 100BASE-T Ethernet support. With up to 64 Mbytes of SDRAM, CompactFlash and full ATcompatibility, high-performance control systems can be implemented on this stackable embedded form-factor (PC/104-size) SBC. The SBC1496 is implemented with the STPC Atlas processor, which offers speeds up to 133 MHz, on-chip cache, 64-bit DRAM access and hardware floating point. When I/O expansion is needed, the StackableUSB interconnect architecture enables the control of up to five StackableUSB peripheral devices in a rugged, bolt-together platform. The basic SBC1496 starts at $385 in single quantity. The extended temp version is available starting at $435. Significant OEM discounts are available.
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