P5 (MEN MIKRO)

The P5 is based on the PC-MIP ANSI mezzanine standard. It can be used as an I/O extension in any type of bus system, i.e. CPCI, PXI, VME or on any type of stand-alone SBC. Appropriate PC-MIP carrier cards in 3U, 6U and other formats are available from MEN or other manufacturers. The P5 PC-MIP is based on the i82527 CAN controller and an MC68331 microcontroller. It is an ideal solution for intelligent remote I/O applications using a very popular fieldbus standard. The physical layer is an isolated ISO high-speed interface with up to 1Mbit/s data transfer rate. The host can load and update the local firmware in RAM. Communication is also done via shared SRAM and is supported by window and pointer access mechanism. Interrupts are available in both directions from the PC-MIP to the host and from the host to the PC-MIP. CANopen firmware consists of the Vector Informatik protocol stack, which runs locally and thus reduces the load on the host. The corresponding driver software comes from MEN. It is based on MDIS (MEN Driver Interface System), which makes the P5 ready for use under Windows, Linux and RTOS environments. MEN also provides comprehensive Intelligent CAN Layer 2 software, based on MDIS.