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GENERAL
DESCRIPTION
The MESA 5I25 SuperPort is a low cost, general purpose programmable I/O card
for the PCI bus. The 5I25 is a low profile PCI card and is available with standard or low
profile brackets. The 5I25 uses standard parallel port pinouts and connectors for
compatibilitywithmostparallelportinterfacedmotioncontrol/CNCbreakoutcards,allowing
a motion control performance boost while retaining a reliable real time PCI interface.
The 5I25 is a universal PCI card so will work in 5V and 3.3V systems. The 5I25
provides 34 I/O bits (17 per connector). All I/O bits have bus switches that provide 5V
tolerance and also have the benefit of disconnecting all I/O pins when the host CPU is off,
preventing damage to the 5I25 if power is supplied to I/O pins when the host is powered
down. All I/O pins have pull-up resistors, so have a defined state at power up. Unlike the
parallelportthatthe5I25replaces,eachI/Obithasindividuallyprogrammabledirectionand
function.
A power source option allows the 5I25 to supply 5V power to breakout boards if
desired. This 5V power is protected by a per connector PTC.
Configurations are provided for hardware step generation (to MHz rates), encoder
counting, PWM, digital I/O, analog I/O, and Smart Serial remote I/O.Configurations are
available that are compatible with common breakout cards and multi axis step drives like
the Probotix-RF and the Gecko G540.
There are currently five 5I25 compatible breakout cards available from Mesa, the
7I74 through 7I78.
The7I74isaeightchannelRS-422interfacenormallyusedwithMesa’sSmartSerial
remote I/O expansion cards. The 7I75 is a simple breakout/protection card that gives direct
bidirectional access to all FPGA pins. The 7I76 is a step/dir oriented breakout with 5 axis
of buffered step/dir outputs, one spindle encoder input, one isolated 0-10V analog spindle
speed plus isolated direction and enable outputs, one RS-422 expansion port, 32 isolated
5-32V inputs and 16 isolated 5-32V 300 mA outputs. The 7I77 is a analog servo interface
with 6 encoder inputs, 6 analog +-10V outputs, one RS-422 expansion port, 32 isolated
5-32Vinputs,and16isolated5-32V300mA outputs.The5I25 supportstwobreakoutcards
so for example a 10 Axis step/dir configuration or 12 axis analog servo configuration is
possible with a single 5I25 and two Mesa breakout cards. The 7I78 is a simple 4 axis
bufferedstep/dirinterfacewithisolatedanalogspindlecontrolandspindleencoderinterface
plus one RS-422 port for I/O expansion.