NEW PRODUCT PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release - March 13, 2006
Pittsford, NY. A new, unique industrial SoC (System on Chip) microcontroller DCIC9907™ is available from Saelig which contains two ARM 946E cores, two CAN channels, two 10/100 Mbit Ethernet MACs with HW extension for real-time protocols, and a versatile motion control logic capability, specifically designed for time-critical and other industrial control applications. DCIC9907™ is destined to be the central digital element of advanced Servo System Platforms, since one of the two ARM cores can be used for complex real-time control tasks and the second for time-variable OS support and system overhead.
Although optimized for motion control applications, DCIC9907™’s key
features will find application in a wide variety of industrial communication
situations, such as: Field bus controller node (Can 2.0B, ETHERNET Powerlink),
Field bus to Ethernet Network (bridge/firewall, gateway /TCP/IP, web server,
firewall, Real-Time Ethernet control node (EPL Manager Node[Master] or control
node [slave]), or Real-Time data acquisition and measurement (precision
time/capture and intelligent ADC/DAC interfaces).
DCIC9907™ is a highly-integrated circuit, which supports many high-level
functions for controlling and supervising industrial applications. Additionally,
DCIC9907™ allows you to control applications under difficult real-time
conditions, such as tasks which need accurately predicted time performance under
all conditions, even when running in parallel with an operating system. Within
DCIC9907™, one of the two ARM cores can be used for complex real-time
control and the second one for system infrastructure, such as HMI (Human Machine
Interface) and the required communication interfaces. For this purpose, the
versatile real-time operating system EUROS (www.euros-embedded.com) has been
ported to DCIC9907™.
The two 10/100 MBit Ethernet MAC ports have hardware extensions which support
real time protocols via Ethernet. Because there are few affordable solutions
available in the market today with such functionality, the new DCIC9907™
is ideally suited to time-critical, cost-conscious control applications.
Features incorporated in DCIC9907™ are the direct result of feedback
from key industrial users; for instance, DCIC9907™’s includes 16 hardware
interrupts controlled via the internal VIC (Vector Interrupt Controller) with a
total of 32 interrupts available (16 Software + 16 Hardware). An additional
unique feature is a complex-motion control block integrated into DCIC9907™.
This control block has all the built-in features necessary to control and
supervise any kind of electronic motor directly from the IC.
For example, it is possible to
control 3 PWM channels in parallel.
DCIC9907™
can be clocked up to 128
MHz and provides sufficient performance even for very demanding control
applications. With 109 I/O pins,
DCIC9907™
represents a highly flexible
System on Chip (SoC).
The 128 MHz DCIC9907™
was designed to keep power
dissipation as low as possible - so no need for heat sinks or even fans! This
means that the form factor of customer products can be reduced to a minimum,
system costs are decreased and MTBF (Mean Time between Failure) is increased
because critical heat on silicon will not be reached.
Made in Germany by DualCore, DCIC9907™ will be available, in an industrial temperature range 305-pin BGA package, at under $US20 in volume from Saelig Co. Inc.
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