THIS CARD IS OBSOLETE AND HAS BEEN
REPLACED BY THE PCL-836
Introduction
Applications
Features
Specifications
Ordering Information
The PCL-830 is a general purpose counter/timer and digital I/O card for PC/AT compatible computers. It provides ten 16-bit up/down counter channels and frequency dividers for its on-board 4 MHz crystal time base. It also includes 16 digital outputs and 16 digital inputs. Two AMD 9513 chips provide a variety of powerful counter/timer function modes to match your industrial and laboratory applications.
Applications
- Event counting
- Industrial automation (flowmeter and wattmeter monitoring)
- Programmable frequency synthesis
- Frequency counter
- Pulse-width and period measurement
- Time-delay generation
- Frequency-shift keying
- F/V conversion and pulse accumulation
Features
- Periodic interrupt generation
- 10 independent 16-bit up/down counters
- Binary or BCD counting
- Programmable frequency output
- Complex duty-cycle output
- Two alarm comparators (on counters #1/#2 and #6/#7)
- Single-shot or continuous output
- Programmable count/gate source selection
- Programmable input and output polarity
- Programmable gate functions
- 16-bit TTL input and 16-bit TTL output ports
- Selectable interrupt input channel
- Up to 6.8 MHz input frequency
- Time-of-day option
Specifications
Counter
- Description: Ten independent 16-bit counters
- Input level: TTL-compatible
- Output level: TTL-compatible
Low: 0.4 V max @ 3.2 mA sink
High: 2.4 V min @ 0.2 mA source
- Input frequency: 6.8 MHz max
- Input pulse width: >70 nsec
- Connector: Two 20-pin flat-cable connectors
- Time base: 1.00 MHz Frequency stability: /-100 PPM
Digital I/O
- Channels: 16 TTL-compatible outputs (16 bits)
- Driving capacity:
Sink 8.0 mA @ 0.5 V (low)
Source 0.4 mA @ 2.4 V (high)
General
- Dimensions: 7" x 4.2" (179 mm x 107 mm)
- Power consumption: 5 V @ 600 mA typical
Ordering Information
- PCL-830
10-channel Counter/Timer Card (20 pin)
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