WinCon Control Software

We supply a QIC microcontroller board that can be used for embedded mechatronic systems. For wireless embedded applications with Pentium class processors, consider our Wireless Ethernet Embedded Controller.

WEECS
QIC

WEECS - Wireless Ethernet Embedded Control System

This system incorporates the following:

Processor board: MSMP5SEV
Processor: SmartCore T3 - 650 Mhz Pentium III CPU
Memory: 256 Mb RAM
File System: 40 GB 2.5” Hard Drive
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2 with Ardence RTX 7.0 real-time extension
Control System Software: WinCon (Client)
Data Acquisition: PC/104 MultiQ (Quanser Consulting Inc)
8 A/D's (19.2us per channel)
8 D/A's (5us per channel)
8 Digital outputs (TTL compatible, 2us)
8 Digital inputs (TTL compatible, 2us)
8 Encoder channels (7 us per read, 4MHz input rate in quadrature mode)
2 Clock sources
On board interrupt generation capability
Power supply: Powers CPU and accessories from 12 to 24VDC power source.
+5VDC @ 5A (available on PC/104 stack connector)
+12VDC @100mA, -12VDC @ 100mA, -5VDC @ 100mA (3W total)
Wireless LAN Support: Linksys “Instant Wireless” series of 802.11b compatible cards. Two cards provided, plus the PC Card-PCI card adapter.
Battery: 16 VDC, approximately 6 hour run time
PC Card support: Second slot for secondary Type II PC Card
Accessories: Full support for keyboard, video, mouse, LAN, USB, printer, and 2 serial ports
Terminal board included for connection to experiments

Installed Software (on WEECS)

Windows XP Professional SP2
Ardence RTX 7.0
WinCon 5.1 Client

Use this system to remotely control your hardware by running the WinCon Client on it. Communicate to it via the WinCon Server that is installed on another PC equipped with a wireless Ethernet card.

Downloads:

	EECS/WEECS - Product Information Sheet
	User Manual

QIC Embedded Controller

Designed for mechatronic systems, The QIC board can be embedded into a variety of applications including state machines, safety circuits, integrated controllers, servo systems, mobile robots and more. Based on the 16F877PIC Micro by Microchip Technologies, it brings state of the art micro-controllers to your fingertips.

The mother board has 8 A/D, 2 PWM, a serial port and a host of digital IO as well a parallel slave bus. It is designed to easily integrate into a breadboard for prototyping or to incorporate into a final product with minimal effort. The daughter board allows for two quadrature encoder measurements, offers two high current drives and incorporates signal conditioning to connect to most of the experiments we make. Use it for your next robotics competition or as the fundamental unit for student projects.

Software includes a serial programmer, a serial bootstrap loader, realtime control software templates and examples for realtime control with serial communications to a PC for online tuning and data collection. A Java applet that runs on the PC and communicates with the QIC is also supplied.

Downloads:

QIC Presentation