TPMC460 Series

TPMC460 Series 4, 8 or 16 Port High-Speed RS232/422 Serial Interfaces

4, 8, or 16 channel high performance serial interfaces with several combinations of RS232 and/or RS422 interfaces.

The PMC modules come with different types of front panel connectors. The TPMC460 PMC modules have 16 channels with an HD68 connector, the TPMC461's have 8 ports and HD50, the TPMC462's have 4 ports and HD50, and the TPMC463's have 4 ports with RJ45 connectors. All modules also offer P14 I/O.

All RS232 channels support RxD, TxD, RTS, and CTS. The TPMC463 offers additional the DTR, CD, and DSR/RI signals. Two channels of the TPMC461 and one channel of the TPMC462 have all signal lines for full modem support.

All RS422 channels support RxD+/- and TxD+/-. Two channels of the TPMC461-11 and all channels of the TPMC463's offer also the RTS+/- and CTS+/- signal lines. One channel of the TPMC462-10x/-12x offers full modem support (TxD, RxD, CTS, RTS, DSR, DTR, CD, RI and GND) for RS232. One channel of the TPMC462-11x supports RxD+/-, TxD+/-, RTS+/-, CTS+/- and GND for RS422.

Each channel has 64 byte transmit and receive FIFOs. The FIFO trigger thresholds, and the baud rates are individually programmable: up to 921.6 kbps for RS232 channels, and 5.5296 Mbps for RS422 channels. All channels generate interrupts on PCI interrupt INTA. For fast interrupt source detection the UART provides a special global interrupt source register. All channels use transceivers with 15 KV ESD protection.

A wide range of drivers is available: Linux, Integrity, QNX, VxWorks and Windows. All drivers - except the Windows drivers - are supplied as C source code.

The TPMC460 modules are also available with conduction cooling as TPMC371/372, and as TCP46X modules in 3U CompactPCI form factor.