SU2-BALLAD

CompactPCI® Serial Quad Port Isolated RS-232 Interface

Proven and reliable, RS-232 stays a popular point-to-point low power communication interface.
The SU2-BALLAD is a peripheral slot card for CompactPCI® Serial systems, equipped with four front panel RS-232 ports. Isolation barrier transceivers are provided for optimum noise and EMC immunity up to 460kbps data rate, as required for industrial use and operation in harsh environments. The SU2-BALLAD is based on an octal PCI Express® to UART bridge. The 950-style UARTs are compatible with all typical asynchronous serial applications and protocols. While four RS-232 ports are available via Micro-D front panel connectors across isolated transceivers conforming to TIA/EIA-232-E specifications, another four UART channels are wired to the CompactPCI® backplane connector P4, for rear I/O usage by means of a suitable RIO module.

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Ordering Information

SU2-0330-BALLAD	Serial Interface with Octal UART (emulating Quad) 3x RS232 isolated via front panel DSub9 w/o handle 1 additional RS232 isolated as redundancy reserve LED function display
SU2-0410-BALLAD	Serial Interface with Octal UART (emulating Quad) 4x RS232 isolated via front panel microDSub LED function display

Specifications

CompactPCI® Serial

PICMG® CompactPCI® Serial standard (CPCI-S.0)
Single size Eurocard 3U 4HP 100x160mm²
Suitable for CompactPCI® Serial peripheral slot (PCI Express® enabled)
CompactPCI® Serial backplane connector P1 for PCI Express®, single lane link
Option CompactPCI® Serial backplane connector P4 for rear I/O

UART

Diodes® (Pericom®) PCI Express® octal UART PI7C9X7958
Eight high performance 950-class UARTs
16C550 software compatible
128-Byte FIFO for each transmitter/receiver
Baud rate up to 15Mbps
XON/XOFF in-band flow control
CTS/RTS out-of-band control
Dedicated DE (driver enable) and RE# (receiver enable) control
Data frame 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 bits
Clock prescaling 4 to 46
Windows® WHQL device driver support

RS-232 Transceivers

Front Panel I/O

4 x Front panel Micro-D 9-pin high density male connectors
RS-232 front ports isolated against each other and board circuitry
Micro-D cable assemblies available, e.g. Micro-D to classic style D-Sub male or female
Inquiry option D-Sub 9-pin front panel connectors (4 ports require 8HP F/P)
Option 2 x D-SUB9 front panel connectors on request (4HP, 2 x micro ribbon flat cable assembly)
Option 3 x D-SUB9 front panel connectors on request (4HP, front handle replaced by screw lock)
Option 4 x D-SUB9 front panel connectors on request (8HP, 4 x micro ribbon flat cable assembly)
Option additional 4 front panel ports RS-232 or RS-485 by means of mezzanine expansion connectors and SUA-RIO or SUB-RIO configured as mezzanine module (8HP F/P)

Option Rear I/O

4 x Rear I/O UART ports (TTL Level), wired to P4 for optional usage with RIO module
Each rear I/O UART port suitable for versatile use with an appropriate transceiver on a RIO module, e.g. RS-232 or RS-232, isolated or non-isolated
Standard rear I/O modules available (SUA-RIO for 4 x RS-232 isolated, SUB-RIO for 4 x RS-485 isolated)
Option all 8 ports available for rear I/O
EKF offers custom specific rear I/O module design

Environmental & Regulatory

Designed & manufactured in Germany
Certified quality management according to ISO 9001
Long term availability
Rugged solution (coating, sealing, underfilling on request)
RoHS compliant
Operation temperature -40°C to +85°C (industrial temperature range)
Storage temperature -40°C to +85°C, max. gradient 5°C/min
Humidity 5% … 95% RH non condensing
Altitude -300m … +3000m
Shock 15g 0.33ms, 6g 6ms
Vibration 1g 5-2000Hz
MTBF 34.6 years
EC Regulations EN55022, EN55024, EN60950-1 (UL60950-1/IEC60950-1)

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SU2-BALLAD

CompactPCI® Serial Quad Port Isolated RS-232 Interface

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