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netRAPID Chip Carrier | Getting Started
DOC131104GS04EN | Revision 4 | English | 2017-09 | Released | Public
© Hilscher 2014 - 2017
2 Device descriptions
2.1 netRAPID Chip Carrier
Hilscher netRAPIDs are compact hardware devices carrying a netX 10,
a netX 51 or a netX 52 controller and an SPI Flash memory.
They are intended for integration into a host device or host system in order
to provide I/O data for automation devices via parallel or serial (SPI) Dual-
Port Memory.
A netRAPID chip carrier can be soldered onto the baseboard of the host
system either by hand (e.g. in prototyping) or by SMD production process
(e. g. in mass production). Because the netRAPID is a complete netX
based communication interface containing all necessary circuits and
operating components, the design-in development of the communication
hardware is reduced to having to add only interface connectors, LEDs and
address switches. The OEM manufacturer can thus carry out the
baseboard in a simple 2-layer design.
Technical details like dimensions/footprints, soldering profiles, signal
descriptions and pin assignments, which are needed for physically
embedding the netRAPID into the host device/host system of the OEM
manufacturer, are provided in the Design Guide
netRAPID Chip Carrier
,
DOC111004DGxxEN, which is stored on the
NRPEB product DVD
in the
Documentation\1. netRAPID Manuals
directory.
Note:
The
NRP 51-RE\F8T
featuring a netX 51 controller, 8 Mbyte serial
flash and a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip is planned.
Note:
Please note the following difference between netX 10-based
netRAPIDs (NRP 10-DPS and NRP 10-CCS) and netX 51 and netX 52-
based netRAPIDs (NRP 51-RE and NRP 52-RE):
Unlike the NRP 10, the NRP 51-RE and the NRP 52-RE are not equipped
with a
Security Memory
(SecMem) chip for storing the device-specific
identification data of the netRAPID.
On the NRP 51-RE and NRP 52-RE, this data is instead stored in the flash
memory of these devices, along with their firmware.
In order to protect this device-specific identification data in the flash
memory from accidently overwriting it, a so-called
Flash Device Label
was defined by Hilscher. The Hilscher
netX Bootwizard
application
version
≥
1.3.15xxx.x (which is provided on the NRPEB product DVD) is
capable of recognizing the Flash Device Label and of downloading files to
the flash memory without overwriting the device-specific data marked with
this label.
