Industry Pack modules

Industry Pack modules are small "daughter" boards that attach to either a VME controller or an IP-carrier board. As many as 4 IP boards can fit on a carrier, greatly increasing the flexibility of I/O options and processing power of a VME system. For example, compute-intensive operations like serial communications can be run on their own VME processor board, thereby reducing the load on the main crate processor.

That being said, we no longer support the "2-processor" solution here at the APS beamlines. It became a maintenance and support nightmare. We now rely on the (awesome) power of the MVME5100 board to run all crate I/O, including IP boards on a processor-less IP carrier.

All of the boards represented in these pages are supported by EPICS and have been used in APS beamlines running the "synApps" beamline specific EPICS application software.

Note: prices on these pages are probably out of date and might be completely wrong. Please check with the vendor before you buy.

• Industry Pack Carrier

  	
  	SBS VIPC626-ET ($600)
  		4-slot VME IP carrier
  
  	SBS Technologies
  

• Serial communication

  	IP octal 232 ($345)
  		octal asynchronous RS-232
  	IP octal 485 ($345)
  		octal asynchronous RS-485
  	IP-Octal User's Manual
  

  	IP-Octal Distribution Panel description and user's manual
  
  	SBS Technologies
  

• GPIB

  	IP-488 ($245, still available?)
  	GPIB interface
  
  	SBS Technologies
  

• Digital I/O

  	IP-Unidig ($350)  SBS Technologies
  
          24 channels of configurable digital I/O.
  
  	BCDA BC-020 lemo breakout module for the IP-Unidig.
  	This system is described here, see BC-020 and BC-022.
  
  

• Analog I/O

  	Digital to Analog:  DAC128V ($395)
  	8-channel, 12-bit DAC, 6 us settling time. Data sheet
  	Systran Corp.
  
  

  	Analog to Digital:  IP330 ($975)
          16-channel, 16-bit differential ADC. Description  Manual
  	Acromag, Inc. 
  
  	Explanation of Acromag IP330 jumper settings