Analog & Digital I/O Capabilities

System developers are offered a wide range of peripheral interfacing options for integrating micro-line embedded DSP hardware with their own equipment. The options exist within three main categories:

• On-board Peripherals & I/O Interfaces
• Peripherals added via the micro-line Bus
• Peripherals added via IEEE 1394 FireWire

Many micro-line customers develop their own proprietary interfaces for use with micro-line hardware. Please contact Traquair to discuss any similar requirements and to request a copy of the micro-line Peripheral Design Guide.

A consulting design service is also available for design integration and minimizing the time to market for systems employing micro-line hardware.

On-board Peripherals & I/O Interface Options

† Please refer to DSP processor and micro-line board literature for shared use of DSP and board I/O pins and mutually exclusive options. § This is the absolute maximum number of configurable I/O pins, not all of which would be available if the micro-line bus master configuration, which extends the DSP EMIF to the micro-line connectors, was used.

Optional Analog Interfaces

With micro-line, analog interface peripheral boards can be optionally added. They are stacked vertically with the DSP/FPGA board, forming a dense, self contained, embedded system configuration. Select for product information on Analog Interface boards... ORS-112: 4ch 16-bit A/D/A with Spartan-IIE or Virtex-II FPGA; ADC rates up to 2.5MSPS/ch ORS-114: 2ch (4ch) 14-bit A/D/A with Virtex-II FPGA; ADC rates up to 65MSPS/ch (40MSPS/ch) ORS-116: 12ch 16-bit A/D/A with Spartan-IIE FPGA; ADC rates up to 250kSPS/ch

Up to seven peripheral boards can be added as memory mapped devices to the micro-line bus of a single micro-line DSP board. A peripheral design guide is available on request to developers interested in integrating their own hardware. Please contact Traquair for more details.

Adding Peripherals via IEEE 1394 FireWire

IEEE 1394 FireWire is either a standard or optional capability with most micro-line DSP boards, offering a flexible 400MBit/sec high bandwidth serial communications capability with excellent real-time behavior.

A diverse range of commercially available IEEE 1394 FireWire devices are available and can be integrated within an embedded micro--line DSP System. Examples include Digital Cameras, Scanning devices, and Printers.

For developers wanting to integrate their own peripheral devices with IEEE 1394 FireWire, the UC1394a ultra-compact multi-chip module provides an ideal solution. Taking the form of a 30mm x 36mm 116-pin PLCC surface mount component, the ultra-compact series of multi-chip module provide everything needed to integrate just about any sensor or application interface within a FireWire networking environment.