SPIO-4精密信号通路控制器板
The SPIO-4 is one of several National Semiconductor digital controller/capture boards that are used by multiple evaluation systems. The objective of these software/hardware evaluation systems is to allow our customers to easily and accurately evaluate National s signal-path devices in a lab setting. At the time of SPIO-4 s release, two different evaluation system software (GUIs) make use of this board: the WaveVision-5 and the Sensor AFE. The board ships with the current version of the WaveVision-5 software.
In addition to the controller/capture board (i.e., the SPIO-4) and the evaluation GUI software (e.g.,WaveVision-5 or Sensor AFE), the third essential element of an evaluation system is the device or signalpath evaluation board that plugs into the controller board. This eval board is generically referred to as the “DUT board”. Each DUT board comes with its own Users Guide which documents its specific features.
Each DUT board also comes with some software that the user must install before using it. In the case of the WaveVision-5 GUI, this software is essentially a device-specific module that adds support for the future device eval boards. In the case of Sensor AFE device family, the eval board comes with a complete, custom Sensor AFE that is specifically paired with that device.
The WaveVision-5 and Sensor AFE GUI software have their own Users
Guide documents that describe how to interact with the GUI.
This User
s Guide describes only the SPIO-4 board. The user is expected to refer to this guide only if necessary. The DUT Users
Guide and the GUI Users
Guide are the primary documents that describehow to work with a National signal-path evaluation board.
SPIO-4系统特性:
Captures or sources multiple signal-path data streams and transfers them to/from the PC based application software through a USB 2.0 connection (USB1.1 compatible).
Supports jumper-less, plug-and-play configuration. The GUI automatically discovers the attached DUT board and loads the appropriate software module for it.
Supports a wide variety of signal-path evaluation board through a standardized connector (GPSI-16/GPSI-32).
Capable of storing up to 8MBytes of signal-path data.
DUT interface can be SPI, I2C or parallel.
Powered either by PC via USB or external supply
Atmel SAM3U microcontroller (ARM Cortex M3 Core)
Available IDE connector for Atmel firmware development environment
USB 2.0 port
USB-powered
Maximum serial clock rate of 80 MHz
Xilinx XC6SLX16 FPGA
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