What’s new?

The ibaFOB-4i-X and respectively the ibaFOB-2io-X and ibaFOB-2i-X card represent the

new generation of iba’s fiber optic PC boards. These boards extend the existing board

family and will replace the previous ibaFOB-cards in long-term. The new boards are

100% compatible on the fiber optical bus side while in the PC the interface and dual port

ram layout differ between the old and new boards.

The new cards features are:

 Full Plug&Play functionality.

 Three different data transmission rates per optical link:

3.3 Mbit/s, 5 Mbit/s and 32 Mbit/s

The 2 MBit data transfer to the old ibaPADU-16. – 32 devices is not supported.

(All ibaPADU-16 and -32 with serial number 999 and below use 2 Mbit data

transfer.)

 Three modes of operation on each fiber optic link:

 F-mode, for data acquisition and output up to 1 kHz (1 ms cycle) with 3.3 Mbit/s

 M-mode, asynchronous mode, for data acquisition up to 25 kHz (40 μs cycle)

with 5 Mbit/s

 X-mode, for data acquisition up to 20 kHz (50 μs cycle) with 32 Mbit/s

In X-mode considerably more signals can be transmitted in the same time, up to

512 Signals / ms.

 Enhanced card diagnostics and card information in ibaPDA-V6

 PCI-X compatible

The card can be operated in PCI-X slots, though the PCI-X mode (64 bit ac

cess) is not supported.