PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300
80 MB/s High-Speed 32-CH Digital I/O Cards
CompactPCI
Introduction
ADLINK's PCI/PCIe-7300A and cPCI-7300 are ultra-highspeed digital I/O card consisting of 32 digital input/output channels. High
performance designs and state-of-the-art technology make these cards ideal for a wide range of applications, such as high-speed data
transfer, digital pattern generation and digital pattern capture applications, and logic analyzer applications. Trigger signals are available
to start the data acquisition of pattern generation.
PCI-7300A
PCIe-7300A
cPCI-7300
■ Maximum Data Acquisition Rate
For sustained data transfer directly from or to host memory, the maximum data acquisition rate can be 80 MB/s. The maximum data
transfer rates between external device and onboard FIFO can be up to 80 MB/s for DO and 160 MB/s for DI. 80MB/s is achieved by
32-bit data width multiplied by an internal 20 MHz clock. 160 MB/s is achieved by 32-bit data width with an external 40 MHz clock
for digital input channels only. The PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 can reach 160 MB/s throughput only when the acquired data length
is less than FIFO size (16 k samples).
■ Bus Mastering DMA
The PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 performs high-speed data transfers between onboard FIFO and host memory using bus mastering
DMA and scatter gather. When the PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 becomes the bus master, it takes control of the PCI/PCIe/cPCI bus,
transfers data at burst speed, and then releases the bus. The host memory can be utilized as much as possible to store data when the
data acquisition throughput is less than the sustained PCI bus bandwidth.
■ Scatter Gather Support
For bus master devices, the hardware has the special-design built-in support for transferring data to and from non-contiguous ranges
of physical memory. The PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 contains multiple pairs of address and length registers, each one describing
a single contiguous buffer segment. This allows the PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 to perform I/O using buffers that are scattered
throughout DMA address space. These multiple address and count registers are often referred to as a scatter/gather list, and you can
also think of these bus masters as having their own built-in mapping registers. With scatter gather support, the data transfer size is no
longer a limitation, and moreover, ring buffer is easily achieved with the link list of the scattered memory.
■ I/O Port Configurations
Features
The PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 is initially configured as two ports: PORT A and PORT B. Each port controls 16 digital I/O lines.
The I/O ports can be configured as either input or output. According to outside device environment, the PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 can
be configured to meet all high-speed digital I/O data transferring. PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 can support many different digital I/O
operation modes:
ꢀ x1ꢀlaneꢀPCIꢀExpress® Interface (PCIe-7300A)
Supports a 32-bit 5 V PCI bus (PCI-7300A)
ꢀ 3UꢀEurocardꢀformꢀfactor,ꢀCompactPCIꢀcompliant
(PICMG 2.0 R2.1) (cPCI-7300)
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Internal clock: The digital input and output operations are handled by internal clock and data is transferred by busmastering DMA.
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32-CH 5 V/TTL digital inputs/outputs
ꢀ 20ꢀMHzꢀ(80ꢀMB/s)ꢀmaximumꢀtransferꢀrate
8, 16, or 32-bit transfers
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External clock: The digital input and output operations are handled by external In/Out strobe signals (DI_REQ or DO_ACK)
and data is transferred by busmastering DMA.
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ꢀ 4ꢀauxiliaryꢀDIꢀ&ꢀ4ꢀauxiliaryꢀDO
Handshaking: Through REQ and ACK signals, the digital I/O data can have simple handshaking data transfer to guarantee no data loss.
Onboard 64 kB FIFO
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Pattern generation: The PCI/PCIe-7300A, cPCI-7300 reads or writes digital data at a prede termined rate. Users can control the rate
Onboard programmable timer pacer clock
Timed digital input sampling controlled by internal
timerꢀorꢀexternalꢀclock
internally via by onboard counters with 50 ns timing resolution.
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Fragmented
Physical Memory
Scatter Gather
Data FIFO
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Independent trigger signals to start data
acquisition and pattern generation
Scatter-gather DMA
DI
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PCI Bus
Timer
Controller
CPU
Supports handshaking digital I/O transfer mode
Repeated digital pattern generation from FIFO
Active terminators for high-speed and longdistance
data transfer
Retrieves
Data
DO
■ Operating Systems
• Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/2003 Server
• Linux
D31..1 6
Local Bus
REG
REG
Port A (16DIO)
16K Words
FIFO
D15..0
D15..0
REG
REG
REG
REG
■ Recommended Software
• AD-Logger
Active
Terminators
PCI/PCIe
Controller
16K Words
Port B
(16DIO)
16K Words
FIFO
• VB.NET/VC.NET/VB/VC++/BCB/Delphi
• DAQBench
D31..1 6
REG
REG
Active
Terminators
D3..0
D7..4
8254
Timer
REG
REG
AUX DO 3..0
■ Driver Support
AUX DI
3..0
• DAQPilot for LabVIEW™
• PCIS-DASK for Windows
• PCIS-DASK/X for Linux
DITRIG,DIREQ
DIACK
DOTRIG,DOACK
DOREQ
Control
&
REG
Timing
PCI/PCIe Bus
Block Diagram of PCI-7300A
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