The PMC-5565PIORC* is the PMC-based product in GE Intelligent Platforms’ Reflective Memory Real-Time Fiber Optic Network product family.

Two or more PMC-5565PIORCs, as well as other products in this family, can be integrated into a network using standard fiber optic cables.

Each board in the network is referred to as a “node”.

Reflective memory allows computers, workstations, PLCs and other embedded controllers with different architectures and different operating systems to share data in real time.

The 5565 Series Reflective Memory (referred to as RFM-5565 in this manual) is fast, flexible, and easy to operate.

Data is transferred via write memory (SDRAM) that appears to exist globally on all boards on the network.

The on-board circuitry automatically performs data transfers to all other nodes with little or no host processor involvement.

Features

Features include

– High-speed, easy-to-use fiber optic network (serial 2.12 GBaud)

– 33 MHz 64-bit/32-bit compliant PCI bus, 3.3 V or 5.0 V logic levels

– 66 MHz 64-bit/32-bit compliant PCI bus, 3.3 V logic level

– Host processor does not participate in network operation

– Optional redundant operation modes

– Up to 256 nodes

– Up to 256 nodes up to 300 m to multimode fiber, up to 10 km to singlemode fiber

– Dynamic packet sizes from 4 to 64 bytes of data per packet

– Fiber-optic network transfer rates of 43 MByte/s to 170 MByte/s

– 128/256 MB bytes of SDRAM reflective memory, with optional parity checking

– Independent direct memory access (DMA) channels

– Four general-purpose network interrupts; each interrupt has 32 bits of data

– Configurable endian translation for multiple CPU architectures on the same network

– Selectable PCI PIO window sizes from 2 MB bytes to 64 MB bytes to full installed memory size

– Supported Operating Systems Supports Windows® 2000. Windows XP, Linux®, and VxWorks® operating systems.

– RoHS compliant