VME3XX - VMEbus M-module carrier board preconfigured with 4 M-modules
User Manual
Version: 1.0
AcQuisition Technology bv
P.O. Box 627, 5340 AP
Oss, The Netherlands
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1. I
NTRODUCTION
Each VME3XX is a 6U VMEbus M-module carrier board preconfigured with four M-modules from AcQuisition
Technology’s M-module range M300 to M399. The VMEbus M-module carrier board is the i4000/NP2 board.
VME3XX VMEbus boards are offered as standard off the shelf products and provided as a package consisting
of an i4000 M-module carrier board for the VMEbus and four installed M-modules.
The reason why VME3XX products are offered as an individual product while in fact the product is composed
of standard modules which are separately available, is because in practice it seems that system integrators
are looking for VMEbus boards and not for M-modules. Since a VME3XX board has all the advantages of a
VMEbus board and the advantages of a modular board by using M-modules for the actual I/O, it can compete
with dedicated VMEbus boards. Additionally the I/O functionality of each VME3XX board is available on 3U
VMEbus cards and other bus architectures such as PCI, CompactPCI and others which makes application
software portable over various bus systems with little programming effort.
1.1.
V
ALIDITY
OF
THE
M
ANUAL
This manual is valid for each VME3XX product which is a combination of the i4000/NP2 VMEbus M-module
carrier board and four M-modules of the same type in the range from M300 up to M399. For understanding the
functionality of the VME3XX and for the integration of the product in a VMEbus environment both the i4000
user manual and the user manual of the applied M-module are required.
1.2.
P
URPOSE
The purpose of this document is to provide the reader with the information regarding the assembly of the
VME3XX product and completes the information which can be found in the i4000 user manual and the user
manual of the applied M-module.
1.3.
S
COPE
The scope of this user manual is the VME3XX board composed of an i4000/NP2 and four M-modules. This
document contains information specific to the combination of the i4000 and the M-modules mounted on the
carrier board. Detailed information regarding the i4000/NP2 and the applied M-module is beyond the scope of
this manual, for this please refer to the i4000 user manual and the user manual of the M3XX M-module.
1.4.
D
EFINITIONS
, A
CRONYMS
AND
A
BBREVIATIONS
AcQ
AcQuisition Technology bv
APIS
AcQuisition Platform Interface Software
CompactPCI
Adaption of PCI for industrial and/or embedded applications
ESD
Electro Static Discharge
i4000/NP2
M-module carrier board for VMEbus without P2 connector
M-module
Mezzanine I/O concept according to the M-module specification
M3XX
M-module from AcQuisition Technology where XX is any number from 00 to 99
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
VMEbus
Versa Modular Eurocard bus
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