GE Fanuc / Radstone PIO-2 Parallel I/O Interface VME Module
Features
- 6U VME Card
- 32 Parallel Channels of I/O
- A Variety of Populaion Options
Description
The GE Fanuc / Radstone PIO-2 provides an efficient means of monitoring and controlling remotely located machinery and equipment from a VMEbus computer system. Solid state relays permit the PIO-2 to switch low power DC voltages to provide fully isolated control of external relays or amplifiers of electro-mechanical systems. This offers the system designer the flexibility to interface with the real world in such application areas as Naval machinery control, vehicle systems control, power plants, avionics and many others.
The PIO-2 is addressed as a VMEbus slave, occupying a block of locations in A24 address space. Either 8 or 16 bit data transfers may be used between the VMEbus host processor and the PIO-2 to transfer status, control and data. The PIO-2 is a VME interrupter with interrupts generated on any change of state of an input bit or by the expiration of any one of the timer/counters. The basic Status/ID interrupt word is set into the PIO-2 by the VMEbus host processor and the source of interrupt is encoded to permit simple identification.