Bus Extension System allows remote operation of equipment.
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PCI Bus Extension System uses high-speed serial transmission and PCI bridge to enable PCI boards to be used at up to 12 m from PC. PCI slot expansion units can extend PCI bus using Cat-5 cable and provides fully compatible PCI bus bridge with transmission over 5 Gbps full duplex link. Applications include areas such as semiconductor manufacturing equipment, robotics and motor control, high-speed remote I/O, and CTI.
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CONTEC Introduces New PCI BUS Extension System
CONTEC has developed a new series of PCI BUS Extension Systems. These PC peripherals use the high-speed serial transmission and a PCI bridge, to enable PCI boards to be used at a distance of up to 12m from the PC.
This new series of PCI slot expansion units can extend a PCI bus using Cat-5 cable and provides a fully compatible PCI bus bridge with high-speed serial transmission over a 5Gbps full duplex link (2.5Gbps send/2.5Gbps receive).
This enables PCI boards to be used in a PCI bus expansion chassis located up to 12m from the PC. The PCI boards can be installed in the same way as on the main chassis of the PC and no special device drivers are required. Another important feature is that the power supply of the PCI bus expansion chassis can be turned on or off automatically in conjunction with the PC power with no additional cabling other than the Cat-5 cable. Uses for the new expansion units are not just limited to the obvious cases where cabling issues meant that the cable length (1m) provided by the previous bus expansion method (PCI to PCI bridge) was inadequate. Instead, the ability to use the wide range of available PCI cards at locations separate from the PC represents a new platform structure whereby the PC ("brain") used to operate a piece of equipment can be separate from the equipment itself. This has applications in many areas such as semiconductor manufacturing equipment, robotics and motor control, high-speed remote I/O, and CTI.
The expansion adapter also comes in two types: the "EAD(LPCI)SF" for both standard PCI and low-profile PCI slots, and the "EAD(CB)SF" for PC card (CardBus) slots.
