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System Architectures > High Performance Controller
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High Performance Controller
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Advantech’s APAX-5570/5571/6571 series offers several high performance controllers with Atom and Celeron M grade CPUs. These controllers benefit from the high throughput, openness, flexibility and connectivity brought by PC-based architectures. Various peripheral interfaces such as LAN, USB, DVI, audio, RS-232, RS-422/485, etc, are provided. These high performance PAC controllers are suitable for many complex control applications.
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The Benefits of High Performance PAC
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- Easy to leverage the existing windows applications without additional software efforts
- Integrates video, I/O processing, and audio in one system
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Delivers fast computation, high throughput, powerful functionality and rich connectivity like an industrial PC.
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Target Market: Measurement and Control Equipment
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- Market Characteristics and Requests
For the measurement and control equipment market, it is necessary to have high-performance data processing functionality. The key features for measurement and control equipment include high-speed scan rates to access I/O data, data logging functions, graphic display solutions, excellent data analysis abilities, and reporting capabilities.
Taking a steel manufacturing line as an example, steel presses need high-speed scan rates to get steel depth as well as control the hydraulic cylinder. Data logging functions must offer data for product quality tracking and control. Sometimes, 3D graphic displays are needed and higher CPU grades necessary to handle more complex mathematic calculations.
Another major market requirement includes SCADA application software (Wonderware InTouch, GE iFIX, Citect, etc.) to process I/Os directly at the field site, not traditionally installed in operation stations connected to PLC at the control room.
- Why APAX is suitable for this market?
Advantech APAX-5570XPE and APAX-5571XPE are designed for high performance applications. APAX-5570XPE is equipped with an Intel Celeron M 1 GHz processor, while APAX-5571XPE is equipped with Celeron M 1.5 GHz processor. APAX-5000 series’ processor can communicate with I/O modules through local bus with proprietary protocol which can ensure I/O access time deterministic and less than 1 ms.
The operating system of APAX-5570XPE and APAX-5571XPE is Windows XP Embedded. It is fully compatible with Windows XP. Customers can easily install application programs to execute at the field site.
For more complicated applications, flexible application software such as NI LabVIEW and iFix might be used. These control and measurement programs can be installed on APAX-5570XPE and APAX-5571XPE, executing raw data analysis, processing and management to record valuable data for top level plant managers to easily control production line information.
- How APAX is suitable for this market??
APAX-5570XPE and APAX-5571XPE are PC-based controllers with real-time local and remote I/O. To access I/O data, APAX provides Windows VC/C++ and.NET libraries for programming. HMI/SCADA software such as iFIX or InTouch can directly access I/O data by Modbus/TCP protocol. Users can simply install their application software on the APAX-5570XPE and APAX-5571XPE and configure related auto-run procedure. Then APAX will execute the program automatically when it boots.
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