GPC® 15R

General Purpose Controllre, Zilog 84C15 with Relays

GPC® 15R English Tech. Manual PDF format.

Ver. 5.20 - Rel. 5 June 2000.

GPC® 15R with plastic mount for connection to Omega rails

The GPC® 15R is a powerful new control module characterized by an optimum price/performance ratio. With its modular design, the unit is ideal for the construction of architectures with distributed logic, affording optimum resources in terms of processing and I/O equipment interface. The GPC® 15R is able to solve many problems of an industrial nature even standing alone, and when necessary, its power can be upgraded and the fields of application expanded utilizing the on-board Abaco® I/O BUS. The module affords a set of connectors with standardized pin arrangements, notably facilitating the installation of the system. There is also a convenient quick release terminal strip for all I/O signals from the field. The GPC® 15R module is secured to an insulating mount with quick-fit connection to standard DIN 46277-1 and 46277-3 Omega Rails. Various power supply solutions are available, including mains. Accordingly, electronic devices and electromechanical control panel can be mounted together in a single panel enclosure, eliminating the typical costs of an extensive board installation.

With powerful software packages available, the user can rapidly and conveniently develop all such programs as may be required for a given application, and using high level programming languages. Programming and exploiting the resources of this module is extremely easy thanks to the help of the stout GDOS Romated Operative System. This latter supports high level languages such as BASIC, PASCAL, C Compilers and so on.; it makes available the memory resources as they should be ROM/RAM-Disk allowing an immediate use of this devices at high level. This module linked to the MCI-64 and FGDOS manages PCMCIA cards of RAM cards and, directly, the on-board Peripherals as serial EEPROM. In addition to that the GPC® 15R allows a direct management of LCD or Fluorescent Displays and matrix keyboard. For an immediate use of this command, KDL-224 boards are available, or if you need a finished object, there is the Operator Panel QTP 16P or QTP 24P. (See the Application Note). This Operator Panel, offered in the open frame version, bears the same aesthetic as QTP 24, but, as the local intelligence is not furnished, it is driven directly by GPC® 15R, allowing a notable cost reduction.

ABC 04 Analog BLOCK Converter 4 A/D	ABC 08 Analog BLOCK Converter 8 A/D
A/D Converter module for Abaco® I/O BUS direct interface to GPC® 15R. 4 A/D lines of 11 bits 5ms. 0÷2.5 Vdc input range or 4÷20 mA. Plastic mount for connection to Omega rails.	A/D Converter module for Abaco® I/O BUS direct interface to GPC® 15R. 8 A/D lines of 10 bits 100µs. 0÷2.5 Vdc input range or 4÷20 mA. Plastic mount for connection to Omega rails.

The FGDOS affords truly notable debug facilities, and allows to program directly on board a FLASH with the user program. The GPC® 15R is equipped with a series of standard Abaco® connectors allowing immediate use of the many BLOCK I/O modules available, or enabling a simple and inexpensive means of connections to equipment interfaces made by the user or by third parties. The various components of the board can also be used with evolved instructions, eliminating the need for direct interface with the hardware. Abaco® I/O BUS connector allows to drive directly ZBR 324, ZBT 324, ZBR 246, ZBT 246, ZBR 168, ZBT 168, ZBR 84, ZBT 84, and through ABB 03, ABB 05 and so on, it is possible to run all peripheral cards available on ABACO® BUS

• 100x245 mm pcb equiped with holder for mounting to standard DIN Omega rails
• 84C15 chip, Z80 compatible, with 20 MHz quartz clock
• 16 or 24 I/O TTL lines, with direction set and control via software from PPI 82C55
• 16 Optoisolator-Coupled Input lines, with LEDs indicators and ability to generate Interrupt, controlled via software by PIO section of Z84C15. The Optocoupled Input lines are already power supplied by the board and they only require a NPN command or a Relay contact
• 8 Output lines wired to 3 A Relays, with LEDs indicators and MOV transient suppressors applied to all the contacts
• 12 software-readable Dip-Switches
• Sundry LEDs indicating status and activity
• Up to 512K FLASH-EPROM or EPROM and 512K RAM. Memory in excess of 64K operated as RAM/ROM Disk by FGDOS, with stand-alone facility for erasing and programming FLASH EPROM
• Back-Up circuitery for RAM through External Lithium battery
• Up to 8K RAM with Lithium backup battery and clock giving time (hours, minutes, seconds) and date (day, month, year), naming day of the week
• Serial EEPROM with capacity from 2 to 64 Kbit
• Two RS 232 serial lines, one switchable to RS 422, RS485 or Current Loop, controlled via software by SIO section of Z84C15
• Double Baud Rate generator programmable via software from 300 to 115.200 Baud
• 4 Timer Counter available to user and controlled via software from CTC section of Z84C15. The 4 counter lines are Optoisolator-Coupled, displayed witch LEDs and with power supply
• Double Watch-Dog fully retriggerable via software
• Dip-Switch for Operating/Debug mode selector
• Power failure circuitry capable of generating /NMI
• Circuitry with Buzzer for generating alarm or audible feedback signals
• External A/D Converter BLOCK witch ABC 04 or ABC 08.
• Built-in Power circuit utilizing mains voltage and capable of supplying both logic and I/O sections, which are Galvanically Insulated
• 26 pins expansion connector for Abaco® I/O BUS
• 1 standard 20 pins Abaco® I/O Connectors
• Wide range of developement software such as: Remote-Symbolic-Debugger, Macro Assembler, GET-80, BASIC Compiler, NoICE, C Compiler, DDS, HTC-80, LISP, NSB8, CBZ-80, PASCAL, GCTR, CMX-RTX, etc. No development system required in order to operate; for example, the FGDOS package and a connection to any PC is sufficient.

Data Sheet GPC® 15R, Rel. 96.8.3

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