Application Information

The VIPC616 VMEbus IndustryPack carrier is part of the IndustryPack family of modular I/O components.

As a 6U carier board, the VIPC616  provides mechanical mounting and the electrical interface from the VME

backplane to four single-wide IndustryPacks or up to two double-wide IndustryPacks. The carrier supports

I/O, ID, memory, and interrupt functions.

The popular VIPC616 is a basic version of the enhanced VIPC618. The VIPC618 uses shielded 50-pin

subminiature D connectors as the front panel I/O interface for significant reduction of EMI emissions and

include latches. The VIPC616 features right-angled ribbon cable connectors on its front panel.

In addition to the front panel cabling, most of the I/O signals of the C and D IndustryPacks are also routed

to the VMEbus P2 backplane connector.  This permits more flexible cabling options in many chassis.

IndustryPack I/O is mapped into the VMEbus A16/D16 space.  Both user and supervisor accesses are

supported, as are read-modify-write (“test and set”) operations.  The size of I/O and ID spaces on each IP is

fixed by the IndustryPack Specification. Memory is mapped into either A24 or A32 space. The A32 selection

supports the full 8 Mbytes of memory per IndustryPAck slot.