Education real-time target machine - Chassis/Mainboard/CPU
The zinc coated sheet metal chassis is extremely robust to make it suitable for its application area with changing users and tasks. And thanks to its small size, it can easily be placed on a desktop and moved around. Overall the total size is small enough to easily operate this machine on any office desktop. If required, you can also mount it by using it's rear brackets.
The chassis is fully EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) sealed and consists of the mainboard and a piggy-backed PCI bus PCB with 2 PCI slots. The mainboard's cooling is accomplished fully passively through a heat sink mounted on the left side of the machine.
The I/O modules' cooling on the other hand is accomplished by a bank of lowest-noise fans producing an airstream covering the entire width of the I/O module card cage. The speed of the fans is temperature-controlled and in an ambient temperature environment they are mostly idle, therefore producing no audible noise. The chassis further contains the power supply producing all necessary voltages. The power inlet requires a single 24VDC source which can be provided by a simple desktop AC/DC adapter (included).
Inside, the Education real-time target machine is equipped with a state-of-the-art industrial-grade mainboard providing connection to the following peripherals: Monitor (DVI, VGA adapter included), keyboard and mouse(PS/2), 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x RS232, two Ethernet ports (10/100Mb/s) which are compatible with xPC Target. Also included are LED indicators and a reset switch.
The CPU of the Education real-time target machine is clocked at 1GHz, and its cache can easily hold the xPC Target kernel image and even larger target applications (models) without the need to access the 'slower' RAM during real-time execution. As a disk drive a 1GB CompactFlash disk is securely mounted onto the mainboard.
The Education real-time target machine doesn't include a floppy disk drive or CD-ROM drive (not required), as the xPC Target software environment is pre-installed on the CompactFlash disk and xPC Target kernels are transferred from host to target by the use of the provided USB memory device.
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"Up and running in less than a day!"
Darren Hartman,
HUSCO International
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