Functional Features

– High-speed, easy-to-use fiber optic network (serial rate of 2.12 Gbaud)

– Data written to the memory of one node is also written to the memory of all nodes on the network

– Up to 256 nodes

– Connections up to 300 meters to multimode fiber and up to 10 kilometers to single-mode fiber

– Dynamic packet size, 4 to 64 bytes of data

– Transfer rates 47.1MB/sec (4-byte packets) to 174MB/sec (64-byte packets)

– 64MB or 128MB SDRAM Reflective memory

– Two independent DMA channels

– Any node on the network can generate an interrupt in any other node on the network or in all network nodes with a single command

– Error Detection

– Redundant transfer mode for additional error suppression

– No processor overhead

– Processor is not involved in network operation

– PCI 64-bit 66MHz Transport

– Compliant with PCI Revision 2.2

– Includes VMISFT-RFM2g network and shared memory drivers.

Features

Description: The VMIPCI-5565 is the PCI member of the VMIxxx-5565 family of reflective memory (RFM) real-time networking products from GE Fanuc Embedded Systems.

Other members of this family include the VME-compatible board VMIVME-5565 and the PCI mezzanine card (PMC) VMIPMC-5565.

All three products are network compatible and can be integrated into a network in any combination.

This family of products allows computers, workstations, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other embedded controllers with different operating systems or no operating system at all to share data in real time.