Search Entire Site:
Explore | Login | Register | Contact Us | About Us


REVIEW: Linux mini-cubes comprise self-contained industrial controllers
By Alex Mendelsohn
Source: Industrial Control Designline

Posted: 02/14/2007
Rating: 3 (Good!)

UEIPACTM series Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs)

Canton, MA—United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the UEIPAC series of Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs). The UEIPAC offers a unique combination of compact size, industrial ruggedness and flexibility. The new family is an ideal solution is applications as varied as unmanned vehicle controllers (UAV and ULV), environmental controllers, test stand controllers as well as hardware-in-the-loop simulators.

The UEIPAC Cube is a complete, self contained controller and includes; An embedded computer running standard Linux operating system, two Ethernet ports, a serial port, an SD Card interface, an inter-PAC sync interface and either three or six slots for I/O boards. The Cubes are very rugged, having been tested from -40 deg. C to +85 deg. C, at 5g vibration, 50g shock and up to 70,000 feet.

Using the UEIPAC, applications written on your PC are deployed on the cube and run fully standalone. This allows smaller, faster, more reliable and higher performance systems than possible using an external host computer. It also eliminates the cost of the dedicated host PC and guarantees long term availability of the identical hardware. This is critical when certifying products for military use, through the FDA etc.

The UEIPAC 300 allows the installation of up to 3 I/O boards. The UEIPAC 600 is slightly larger at 4" x 4.1" x 5.8" and allows the installation of up to 6 I/O boards (containing up to 150 analog inputs or 288 DIO). The I/O boards installed are determined by the user's application. There are currently over 20 different I/O boards available including analog input, analog output, digital I/O, counter/Timer, quadrature Encoder, serial I/O, CAN bus and ARINC-429 interfaces.

"The UEIPAC is an excellent solution in a wide variety of industrial and embedded control applications" according to UEI President Shaun Miller, "The combination of small size, industrial ruggedness and wide variety of I/O interfaces is unmatched in the industry. The UEIPAC is based on a standard Linux operating system, ensuring long term viability, high performance, excellent support and straightforward application development."

Pricing UEIPAC 300 $1495 Available now UEIPAC 600 $1795 Available now

For complete details on the UEIPAC series please visit: www.ueidaq.com/PAC


 

How many green LED bulbs are there in the blender display?
  4
  5
  6
  3

Do you know the answer?
Do you want to be rewarded?
Login to Mechatropolis or Become a Citizen.
To add search tags or to rate Articles, please Login to Mechatropolis or Become a Citizen
Search Tags: article  PLC  cmp  PAC  UEI  opensource  Linux  open_source    UEIPAC  PACs  UAV  ULV  
Comments:


 
Community Status
 
Top Citizen: Inaki Z.
723056 Points
Are you smarter?
Login or Register

Invite A Friend
Your
E-Mail:
Friend's
E-Mail:
 

Related Articles
Cellphones could be kinetic-powered...
External Link: http://www.ubergizmo.com/...
Click for more information.
New sensor and MCU technology are key to...
Constructing a robot back in the "good old days" was a difficult, error-prone and time-consuming process. Sens...
Robot Gossip: Let The Games Begin...
External Link: http://robotgossip.blogsp...
Click for more information.
Open Source Wireless Sensor Mote Design ...
External Link: http://squidbee.libelium....
Click for more information.
View all Articles

Editor's Selection
Freescale Samples Flexis Series 8/32-bit...
External Link: http://www.automotivedesi...
Click for more information.
Advances in servo system development ...
The recent trend in has been to reduce cost, size and complexity of servo systems while increasing performance...
Driverless vehicles meeting challenge...
PORTLAND, Ore. — The winners of the last Grand Challenge, an autonomous vehicle race sponsored by the ...
View all Articles

Popular Mechatropolis Articles
Getting in touch with touchscreen tech...
Touchscreen technology is emerging as a killer app all by itself  Thanks to advances in mec...
PCI Express image-acquisition board set ...
Imaging and video have always interested me. As a youth in the early 1960s I tinkered with a surplus ph...
Generate stepper-motor speed profiles in...
A new algorithm for stepper-motor acceleration allows speed profiles to be parameterized and calculate...
Tutorial: Improving the Transient Immuni...
When it comes to protecting their designs from a variety of transient electrical disturbances, developers of m...
View all Articles

ArticlesTag Cloud
  accelerometer     actuator     ADC     aerospace     Atmel     automotive     AVR     CAN     Celoxica     controls     debug     DSP     Echelon     ECU     electronics     ENOVIA     Freescale     HILS     I2C     industrial     keypad     LIN     LONworks     MCU     mechanics     medical     Microcontroller     prototyping     Pyxos     robotics     Semiconductor     sensor     ShortStack     simulation     SPI     switch     Toshiba     XBox     zigbee  


Do you have a question or suggestion?
Send us a message using this form:
Name:
E-Mail:
Subject:
Message:
Verify:This Is CAPTCHA Image (enter code)
 

Which of the following is the coolest Mechatronic device?
 
i-Robot Roomba
Wii Remote Controller
Coffee Maker
Blood Preasure Monitor
 
 

Home | Videos | Articles | AppNotes | Webcasts | Courses | Wiki Teardowns | VirtuaLabs | Challenges
Explore | Login | Register | Contact Us | About Us

Privacy Policy | Your California Privacy Rights | Terms of Service
© 2008 TechInsights, a division of United Business Media Limited. All Rights Reserved.