Control and Data Acquisition: Hardware

SIEMENS S7-300 PLC's are dedicated to slow and safe applications like vacuum, temperature, interlock, etc. Digital and analog inputs/outputs can be connected directly or via the Profibus fieldbus to the PLC.

 

Compact PCI crates are dedicated to fast or synchronous control applications and to data acquisitions. Customized with 2 CPCI buses, the 6U crates can host 3U and 6U boards :  INOVA CPU with Pentium-M processor, I/O boards provided by ADLink, National Instruments and, for specific needs, Acquiris boards. External patch pannels have been developed by Soleil allowing to use standard connectors. In addition, the REMBO software is used for remote deployment and management of the OS (Windows or Linux) and software images of the crates.

 

A ready-to-use solution is used for controlling standard motors, i.e. 4-phases bipolar stepper motors, absolute SSI or incremental TTL encoders. It is based on the 8-axis GALIL DMC-2182 controller board, the MIDI-INGENIERIE and PHYTRON (for vacuum motors) power boards. These boards are embedded in SOLEIL crates (ControlBox, DriverBox and VacuumBox) to supply standard packaging and connectors. If needed, the standard solution can be adapted to control non-standard motors like servomotors or piezo ones.