Education real-time target machine

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Study and teach basic and advanced mechatronic and custom FPGA design concepts

Together with Simulink® and xPC Target™ from MathWorks the Education real-time target machine forms a complete real-time simulation and testing solution to study and teach mechatronic concepts with components currently used in industry.

To make this product a truly industrial-grade solution available at the most attractive price tag Speedgoat has teamed up with industry leading providers including Acromag, B&R Industrial Automation, and The MathWorks. The result is a system providing best balance between feature richness, quality, and a price an academic institution can afford.

Key features include

  • Ideal for motion control, power electronics, or signal processing applications
  • Industrial-grade no-toy design
  • Rugged mechanical and electrical design
  • Low-latency analog and digital I/O connectivity included
  • Pulse generation (PWM), pulse capture (CAP), quadrature decoding (QAD), and generic digital I/O channel support (option)
  • Step-by-step guide to develop and integrate custom FPGA I/O functionality (option)
  • Includes all required cables, terminal boards, and adapters
  • Best balance between feature richness, industrial-grade quality, and price
  • Education real-time target machine
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  • I/O subsystem
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  • Accessories
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  • Motion Control FPGA Package - Type 1 and 2
    • Item-ID Product Name Description
    108000 Education real-time target machine Complete, fully assembled and tested Education real-time target machine including ruggedized chassis, industrial mainboard with two PCI slots (whereas one is equiped with an I/O module providing the provided analog and digital I/O connectivity), on-board Gigabit Ethernet controller for host-target communication (supported starting with R2008b of MathWorks software), Intel Core 2 Duo 2,23 GHz CPU, 2048MB RAM, 1024MB industrial-grade CompactFlash device, 32 single-ended or 16 differential analog input (software selectable), 4 analog output (single-ended), and 8 digital TTL input and 8 digital TTL output channels (16-bit), I/O cable, terminal board, DVI-I to VGA adapter, universal power supply (24VDC, 50W, 100-240V, 50/60Hz), 4GB USB memory stick, installed target software, and documentation.

    The Education real-time target machine is exclusively available to teach students at academic institutions and shall not be used for projects associated with commercial companies.
    108001 Motion Control FPGA package - Type 1 Multi-purpose FPGA-based I/O module with 64 TTL I/O lines and Xilinx Virtex-II chip with 7k logic cells implementing 3 channels for PWM generation, 3 channels for PWM capture, 3 channels for quadrature decoding of incremental encoder sensors, 1 Interrupt, 1 Negation, and 36 digital I/O channels configurable as inputs or outputs in pairs of two. Delivery includes I/O cable, terminal board, and Speedgoat drivers and blocksets for Simulink and xPC Target. Installed in Education real-time target machine and fully tested. Can not be combined with Education CAN I/O package.
    108002 Motion Control FPGA package - Type 2 Multi-purpose FPGA-based I/O module with 64 TTL I/O lines and Xilinx Virtex-II chip with 24k logic cells implementing 3 channels each for PWM generation, PWM capture, and quadrature decoding of incremental encoder sensors, 1 Interrupt, 1 Negation, and 36 digital I/O channels configurable as inputs or outputs in pairs of two. Installed in Education real-time target machine and fully tested. Delivery includes I/O cable, terminal board, and Speedgoat drivers and blocksets for Simulink and xPC Target. Can not be combined with Education CAN I/O package.
    108003 Education CAN I/O package Intelligent CAN I/O module with two high/low speed 2.0b CAN ports (software selectable). Delivery includes loopback test I/O cable and Speedgoat drivers and blocksets for Simulink and xPC Target. Installed in Education real-time target machine and fully tested. Can not be combined with Motion Control FPGA packages.
    108020 Education FPGA Development Kit for xPC Target Step-by-step guide showing how to develop custom FPGA implementations using the Motion Control FPGA package – Type 1 or 2, xPC Target, and Xilinx software tools (not included), VHDL code examples, and Simulink blocks for FPGA bitstream-download and FPGA application interaction.

    Pricing information
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