QNET Mechatronic Interfacing Board
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The QNET Mechatronic Interfacing board is an ideal tool to expose students to basic principles and applications of embedded systems. Designed exclusively for NI ELVIS platform and LabVIEW™ software, students learn how to control the microcontroller at the register level, and interact with sensors and other system components using industry communication standards.
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The QNET Mechatronic Interfacing board consists of a dsPIC33e microcontroller, SPI and I²C devices, such as temperature, proximity and acceleration sensors, memory chips, keypad and touch screen interface devices, and external communication ports for UART and CAN. The internal registers of the PIC can be modified in real time to control the behaviour of the entire system without requiring re-flashing of firmware.
- UART and input capture
- Two position encoders
- Analog input signal generation via potentiometer
- Keypad and touch screen for user interface
- LCD screen and tri-colour LED for display
- Colour sensor, connected to LED via fiber-optic cable
- I²C accelerometer, gyroscope, thermometer, and IR range detector
- SPI RAM and Flash memory chips
- SD card slot with SPI interface
- Fiber-optic serial I/O connected to UART
- Two external CAN bus connectors with SPI CAN controller chips and built-in termination resistance
| SPI RAM capacity | 64 kB |
| Flash capacity | 64 Mb (32 Mb reserved) |
| Encoder resolution | 24 pulses/rev |
| Temperature sensor max. sensitivity | 0.0625 ºC |
| Accelerometer max. scale | ± 8 g |
| Accelerometer granularity | 12 bits |
| LCD colour depth | 18 bits |
| Touch sensor granularity | 16 bits |
| Gyroscope granularity | 32 bits |
| CAN bus termination resistance | 120 Ω |
| CAN transceiver voltage | 5 V |
| Colour sensor max. output frequency | 600 kHz |
- Microcontroller I/O
- Hardware control registers
- Data storage in flash and RAM
- SPI and I²C communication
- CAN busses and inter-device communications
- User I/O, controls and displays
- Hardware integration
The following additional components are required to complete your workstation, and are sold separately:
For LabVIEW
- NI ELVIS II+
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