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NV9642 User’s Guide Change History Rev. Date Description Approved 24 Nov 09 16114 Initial release D. Cox 6.0.8 05 Nov 10 17286 Updated to conform to SE . Virtual level expand, D. Cox contract buttons added. 20 Nov 14 19357 Reformatted.
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NV9642 User’s Guide General Warnings A warning indicates a possible hazard to personnel which may cause injury or death. Observe the following general warnings when using or working on this equipment: • Heed all warnings on the unit and in the operating instructions. •...
Preface Terms, Conventions and Abbreviations Use the ‘First Page’ , ‘Previous Page’ , and ‘Next Page’ , and ‘Last Page’ buttons to go to the first, previous, next, or last page within a PDF file. Note To display the navigation buttons, right-click the Tool Bar area, and check ‘Navigation’ . •...
Introduction Panel Organization We use the term “button page” or “page” to mean the set of 34 button functions at any partic- ular level in the tree. Configurers will use ‘Navigate’ buttons to create new button pages (subtrees). During operation, NV9642 users will press a ‘Navigate’...
NV9642 User’s Guide Panels that use multi-destination mode will probably require ‘Page Up’ and ‘Page Down’ buttons. Alphanumeric Display The 4×22 alphanumeric display provides real-time feedback for the operators as they press buttons to execute takes and other operations. The panel functions in two modes: X-Y or multi- destination and the display changes according to the mode: XY Dest XY Dest...
Introduction Panel Organization In MD mode, the status column represents the sources routed to each of the destinations in the ‘Level/Dest’ column. Again, these are the current sources. In X-Y mode, the display uses its top row to show the selected destination. Therefore, in X-Y mode, the display scrolls 3 lines at a time.
NV9642 User’s Guide Modes of Operation The panel operates in either X-Y mode or multi-destination (MD) mode. A single button (XY/MD) can toggle between the modes. A third mode — called “single-bus, ” “single-destination, ” or “button-per-source” mode — can be emulated in either X-Y mode or MD mode. The primary modes of operation are: •...
Introduction Other NV9642 Functions Other NV9642 Functions The NV9642 can be configured to perform the following additional functions: • Previous source, free source, “quick” source, and source/destination buttons. • Return to a pre-defined (or default) state. • Hold breakaway levels. •...
Installation Installation Installation Follow these steps to install a NV9642 control panel: 1 Mount, and secure, the panel in the rack. The NV9642 is designed to mount in a 19” rack. Rack-mounting is not a requirement. Place the panel in position in your rack. Attach the panel to the rack frame, using screws appropriate for your rack.
NV9642 User’s Guide Initialization Before your system controller can communicate with an NV9642, you must give the NV9642 a panel ID. Follow these steps for each NV9642 you are installing: 1 Power up the NV9642. Do not connect its Ethernet cable. (Disconnect it if it is connected.) After a few seconds, the alphanumeric display will show ‘Acquire IP Address’...
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Installation Testing tion exists for that panel and the buttons appropriate for that configuration should light in the colors appropriate for the top-level button page of that configuration. If you continue to see “No Server, ” “Acquiring IP Address, ” or “Locating Network” on button 2, you have a problem.
Configuration Chapter 4 provides configuration instructions for the NV9642. Topics Summary ................13 Adding a Panel to an NV9000 Configuration .
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Configuration Adding a Panel to an NV9000 Configuration After launching NV9000-SE Utilities, choose ‘Control Panels’ from the Configuration pane in the navigation area. The ‘Control Panels’ configuration page appears: Click ‘Add Control Panel’ at the bottom of the configuration page. The ‘Add Control Panel’ page appears: Choose “NV9642”...
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NV9642 User’s Guide There are 2 other buttons: ‘Suffix’ and ‘Navigate’ . Pressing either of these buttons creates a button page template, not a panel configuration. See Global Navigation on page 39. Return to the ‘Control Panels’ page to view your new entry. To edit an NV9642 configuration, either double-click its list entry or select the entry with a check in the checkbox and then click ‘Edit Selected Control Panels’: You will then see the panel configuration page for the selected NV9642.
NV9642 User’s Guide Regions of the Configuration Page Above the ‘Revert to Saved’ and ‘Save’ buttons (always present) there are 5 main regions: • A graphic representation of the NV9642 panel. On the right are 34 function button images. Click on a button to assign a function to it. In some cases, you can click or double-click certain buttons to execute the button function.
Configuration NV9642 Panel Configuration Page For example, if your NV9000 configuration has levels HD, SD, AES12, AES34, AES56, AES78, timecode, and ‘Ctrl’ defined, and you specify that HD, AES12, AES34 are to appear on lines 1, 2, and 3, that will always happen. Then levels SD, AES56, and AES78 will appear on page 2, and ‘timecode’...
NV9642 User’s Guide Commitment Buttons Two buttons at the bottom of the configuration page are self-explanatory and present on most configuration pages: • Revert to Saved. Press this button if you want to discard any recent changes you have made. •...
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Configuration Panel Options XY Data Automatic If a machine control (i.e., data) level is involved in a route, the sys- Routing Mode tem makes the route on the control level even if the control port is in use on the source or destination device. It breaks the previous control connection and then makes a new control connection for the route in progress.
NV9642 User’s Guide Checkbox Options The checkbox options section is just below the panel options section, enclosed in the same region: A check in the box enables the option. Clearing the checkbox disables the option. By default, all the check box options are clear except ‘Src/Dst Immediate Take’ . That particular option is enabled by default.
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Configuration Panel Options • Enable destination protect. Check ‘Enable Destination Protect’ so that any ‘Destination Protect’ button on the panel will function. • Source master default. Makes a control-level source the controlling device (or master device) by default. Otherwise, the destination is the master by default. (The option is specifically for use with NV9000 series machine control routers.)
NV9642 User’s Guide clear, the button sets up the take and the operator must press a ‘Take’ button to complete the take. Button Definitions There are four classes of button functions: • Dedicated functions, such as ‘Default State’ or ‘Chop’ . •...
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Configuration Button Definitions The controls vary according to the button type. Button Type A pull-down menu where you may select a button type. Button Caption Three text boxes in which you can enter three lines of button text up to 8 characters each.
NV9642 User’s Guide Button Types Note that different subsets of these button types are available when you are defining a global suffix template or a global navigation template. See Global Navigation on page 39. These are the button types available for NV9642 configurations: Type Description Back...
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Configuration Button Definitions Type Description Destination Sets or removes a “lock” on the current destination device. The lock can be Lock removed only by the user that originally set the lock, or by a panel that has “Force Release” enabled. In MD mode, an “L”...
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NV9642 User’s Guide Type Description Name Set The button toggles the panel between its default name set and the “system Toggle name” set. One or the other becomes the active name set. The button definition has no fields to configure. If the default name set is the system name set, the button would be a no-op.
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Configuration Button Definitions Type Description Quick Source A quick source button selects a source and performs an immediate take. When you assign a quick source button, a drop-down menu appears in which you choose a source device. The ‘None’ entry is merely a placeholder. Do not choose ‘None’ . Salvo Executes a salvo.
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NV9642 User’s Guide Type Description Selection Selection buttons have many functions, not the least of which is to give feedback (e.g., source and destination mnemonics) when the operator is performing takes. When the panel is in XY mode, a set of selection buttons presents a set of virtual levels for the selected destination device.
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Configuration Button Definitions Type Description Source Means “source is the master” and makes the source device the master. Other- Master wise, the destination is the master. It applies to machine control routes. The button is a toggle: Press it once to make the source the master (it goes high- tally);...
NV9642 User’s Guide ‘Edit Navigation Button’ Dialog During configuration, when you choose ‘Navigate’ for a selected button, NV9000-SE Utilities displays an ‘Edit Navigate Button’ dialog in which you specify navigation button details: Button text Navigation Choices Automatic Fill Options At the top, this dialog presents 3 lines on which you can enter text for the button caption. In this dialog, The 3 lines you enter here are concatenated to form the name of the page in the button page table and might be the button caption, depending on context.
Configuration Button Definitions • Use “auto fill” to create a new button page. NV9000-SE Utilities (SE) creates at least one new button page, filling the page(s) with button functions according to the fill options you specify. Automatic fill has several suboptions: Source buttons Salvo Source category buttons Destination buttons...
NV9642 User’s Guide • Quick Source Devices Automatic fill using quick source buttons for source devices is the same as for source devices, except that quick source buttons are used. In the case of manual fill, blank quick source buttons are created. •...
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Configuration Button Page List The button page at the top (or root) of the tree is called “Default. ” Initially, the tree has just the default page, until you add other pages. To delete a page or pages from the tree, select the pages in the button page list, right-click the list, and choose one of the deletion commands from the context menu that appears.
NV9642 User’s Guide operation. (The exception is the default page which is always available after reset. It might become unavailable in a configuration that has subpages with no ‘back’ buttons.) Tally (GPIO) Window Below the tree window is the tally section of the configuration page. It has two sections: inputs and outputs.
Configuration Selection Buttons selection button is high-tally, the level is selected. If a selection button is low-tally, the level is not selected. If there are more levels than selection buttons, the operator can scroll through the levels using ‘Page Up’ and ‘Page Down’ buttons. The levels list scrolls module the number of selection buttons.
NV9642 User’s Guide MD Mode — Hold Mode In hold mode, selection buttons are not mutually exclusive. To perform MD takes, the operator selects one or more MD devices. All of them turn on (high-tally). The operator then selects a source (which becomes preset for all the selected devices).
Configuration Single-Destination Mode How to Configure Selection Buttons Follow these steps to assign virtual levels and MD devices to selection buttons. 1 Decide how many selection buttons you want on the button page. We strongly recommend 8 selection buttons. Create those selection buttons by clicking on the buttons and choosing ‘Selection’...
NV9642 User’s Guide Global Navigation NV9000-SE Utilities supports what are known as “global navigation” pages for NV9642 control panels. Global navigation pages are templates — patterns — that may be used and reused in the creation of NV9640 configurations. There are two types of global navigation pages: ‘Suffix’ and ‘Navigate’ . A navigate template may define a single button page or an entire subtree of pages.
Configuration Global Navigation Referencing a Suffix Template Suffix pages can be accessed through ‘Category’ buttons. When you create a ‘Category’ button, the button type region displays a checkbox option: ‘Use global suffix page to select devices’: Suffix Suffix checkbox template selection When you check the option, an addition ‘Suffix Page’...
NV9642 User’s Guide Referencing a Navigate Template Navigate pages can be accessed through ‘Global Navigate’ buttons. When you create a ‘Global Navigate’ button, the button definition has a ‘Navigation Btn’ field: Choose a navigate template in that field. The global navigation page and any of its subpages appears in the panel configuration’s button page list: Global navigation page(s) ...
Configuration Global Navigation numeral or a suffix on the button page. When the operator presses a numeral or a suffix, the numeral or suffix is appended to the mnemonic of the device being identified. It is an NV9000-SE Utilities feature that certain numerals become disabled if there is no device index in the category that contains that numeral.
Operation Summary At any particular time, some of the buttons are enabled or disabled. Some are high-tally; some are low-tally; and some might be off (undefined). The buttons have different colors, the choices of which depend on the configurer’s intentions. ...
NV9642 User’s Guide Button Legends There are many different button function types (about 31) and the legend that appears on any button varies with the type and depends on the configurer’s intentions. Button legends have 3 lines of 8 characters. One or more lines of a button legend can be blank. Buttons are also color-coded.
NV9642 User’s Guide In this example, the displays shows that two sources, CAM--4 and CAM--5, were preset to 2 desti- nations, VTR--2 and VTR--3, respectively: The preset sources are not visible on the display, but are visible on the selection buttons when the MD CAM1 CAM1 VTR1...
Operation Operating Concepts A source can be routed to a destination if it has the same set of levels, i.e., it belongs to the same named level set. A source can be routed to a destination in a different level set if the NV9000 configuration has the appropriate level mapping.
NV9642 User’s Guide Multi-Destination Mode In multi-destination mode, hold mode allows you to select more than one MD destination at a time. In addition, MD selections are retained after a take. Category Selection In the NV9000 system, devices are assigned to categories, where the devices within the catego- ries are either numbered or identified by alphanumeric suffixes.
Operation Operating Concepts page. ” See Global Navigation on page 39. A device list, if it is long, spans more than one but- ton page. At present, there are 35 button types, not including “undefined” which is not a true button type: Back Hold Source is Master...
NV9642 User’s Guide The button text is normally the category name, but the configurer can give it any text. Category names tend to be short. It is a common convention that buttons for source categories and devices are green and buttons for destination categories and devices are amber.
Operation Operating Concepts Destination This button selects a destination. A destination button can occur on any page, but destination buttons often appear in destina- tion lists. Destination lists can occur either (1) in automatically configured, but static, pages or (2) as a result of pressing a destination category button, in which case, the destinations buttons are generated dynamically.
NV9642 User’s Guide The ‘Destination Protect’ button text is normally “Dest Protect” and when a selected MD desti- nation is protected, the button legend becomes “Dest Unprotect. ” MD Mode In MD mode, a protected destination has a “P” next to it when it appears in the display. When you select a protected MD destination with a button, the ‘Destination Protect’...
Operation Operating Concepts is still on when you press ‘Take’ , the selected destinations remain selected and the display reflects the selected destinations. The buttons for the selected destinations remain high-tally. Without hold enabled, the panel has no destinations selected after an MD take and the buttons for the selected destinations go low-tally.
NV9642 User’s Guide Name Set Toggle An ‘Name Set Toggle’ button toggles the panel between its default name set and the “system name” set. Whichever name set you select becomes the “active” name set. ‘Name Set Toggle’ buttons are disabled while a category selection is in progress. ...
Operation Operating Concepts Panel Lock A panel lock button prevents changes to the panel settings, especially router crosspoints. When the panel is locked, the button array becomes blank except for the ‘Panel Lock’ button which becomes high-tally red. The button is a toggle: press the ‘Panel Lock’ button to lock the panel. Press it again to unlock the panel.
NV9642 User’s Guide Save Preset This button is a toggle: it enables or disables “save preset” mode. When this function is enabled (and the button is high tally), whatever is on preset is retained on preset after a take. When the function is disabled (its button is low tally), whatever is on preset is discarded after a take.
Operation Operating Concepts If the configurer has turned on the option, you may redefine any MD destination. To do so is simple: (1) select an MD destination on a selection button, (2) choose a destination that is not on a selection button. You might have to navigate or scroll through a destination list to choose one. Source A source button selects a source.
NV9642 User’s Guide Undefined An undefined button cannot be used and appears dark (unlit) on the panel. The term “unde- fined button” has meaning primarily to the configurer and not the operator. Virtual Level Expander In X-Y mode, this button causes the alphanumeric display to show virtual levels at the lowest level of grouping (with the most detail).
Operation Operating Concepts Destination lockNo one can route to the destination. Destination protectNo one but the owner can route to the destination. ReleaseTo remove a lock or protect. Some control panels can lock or protect both sources and destinations. However, The NV9642 provides locks and protects for destinations only.
NV9642 User’s Guide Name Sets NV9000-SE Utilities allows configurers to define multiple name sets. Each name set contains aliases (alternate names) for any and all devices in the NV9000 system. The aliases can appear in the displays of your panel. Further, your panel can have a ‘Name Set Toggle’...
Operation Operating Concepts Implicit in the ‘Broadcast’ button is the “source is master” mode. It is not necessary to press ‘Source is Master’ repeatedly. The reason you must press ‘Source is Master’ the first time is that “broadcast mode” is not yet active. Removing Broadcast Routes To cancel a route, route the source to another destination normally.
NV9642 User’s Guide If neither of the control ports for the source or destination are in use, the take occurs naturally without any further action required. Note that the ports will become “in use” after the take you are performing. Follow these steps to take the data level as a breakaway: 1 Select a destination.
Operation Menu Mode The menu has 4 menu choices and an exit button: SOFTWARE SOFTWARE VERSIONS VERSIONS USER USER PANEL PANEL CONTROL CONTROL EXIT EXIT Press ‘Exit’ when you want to leave the menu and return to the previous button page. Software Versions Press the ‘Software Versions’...
NV9642 User’s Guide If the ‘Panel ID’ button is high-tally, you may change the panel ID. Normally, only your system administrator would do that. Press ‘Exit’ on the right to return to the menu. LCD Control Press the ‘LCD Control’ button to view and change LCD brightness. When you do, the current LCD button state appears on the 14 top left buttons: LCD HI LCD HI...
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Operation Setup Mode In addition, the display shows the panel ID: ACQUIRE IP ADDRESS ACQUIRE IP ADDRESS NV9642 NV9642 PANEL ID: 23 PANEL ID: 23 In this illustration, the panel ID was already set to 23. The “Acquire IP Address” is a status message during initialization.
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NV9642 User’s Guide Each time you press the button, the panel illuminates all its LCD buttons in a single color, changing the color each time you press the button. Keep pressing the button until all 7 col- ors (high and low tally) have been displayed and ‘Button Number’ appears on the display. Press any button.
GPIO GPIO Configuration Concepts When the input transitions off or transitions on, the NV9642 notifies the router control system, which carries out the task defined for the input (if a task has been configured). During contact closure, a current of 1.2mA flows. A maximum of 48VDC can be applied to the tally input for less than 5 seconds without failure.
NV9642 User’s Guide Click on a button under ‘Outputs’ to configure one of the 4 tally outputs. Click on a button under ‘Inputs’ to configure one of the 8 tally inputs. There are no actual GPIO buttons on the NV9642 control panel. Configuring Outputs Clicking an output button (one of 4) displays a “Relay Rule”...
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GPIO Configuring Outputs The relay will turn on when the entire expression is true. That is, when the switch occurs and either of the inputs (3 or 8) transitions from off to on. (To allow a relay to switch when an input transitions from on to off, precede the input term by “NOT.
NV9642 User’s Guide Configuring Inputs Clicking an input button (one of 8) displays the GPI input dialog: An event is signalled when a transition occurs on the input from on to off or from off to on. You can configure the NV9642 to recognize either occurrence on any of the 8 inputs, and specify one of 4 behaviors for each event or both: 1 Execute a salvo.
Technical Details Chapter 7 provides electrical and mechanical specifications for the NV9642. Topics Power Specifications ..............75 NV9642 Specifications .
Technical Details NV9642 Specifications 2.39 [60.7] 5.24 [133.0] Indicator LED 1.62 [41.0] AC Input DC Output Fig. 7-1: The power output has Molex 4-pin plug. See Power Cord Retention on page 82. NV9642 Specifications NV9642 Physical Specifications Specification Detail Dimensions Height: 1.72 in (43.7 mm), fits EIA 2 RU (1.75 in or 44.5 mm), Width: 19.0 in (482.6 mm).
NV9642 User’s Guide Environmental Specifications NV9642 Environmental Specifications Specification Detail Operating temperature 0–40 °C, ambient. Relative humidity 0 to 90%, non-condensing. Cooling No fan required. Defaults Initial Panel State Multi-destination mode or X-Y mode, selectable. Destination: the configured default. Buttons: high-tally is maximum brightness; low-tally is low brightness. Configuration Page The initial button page for a new NV9642 configuration is empty.
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Technical Details Drawings Fig. 7-2: Front and Top Views of the NV9642...
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NV9642 User’s Guide Fig. 7-3: Rear and Top Views of the NV9642...
Misc. Topics Power Cord Retention Power Cord Retention Use the supplied retention strap to keep the AC power cord firmly connected to the power supply. Follow these steps to use the strap: 1 Firmly insert the AC power cord into the power supply. Examine the last figure in this section to see how the strap should be applied.
NV9642 User’s Guide Ordering Information These are the NV9642 components: PS0001 12V power supply, 4-pin Molex connector, with cord, and cord retention strap. NV9642 NV9000 control panel. 34 button, 1RU, XY/MD, hierarchical. WC0053 Optional breakout cable for the tally interface...
Glossary AES/EBU (Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcasting Union). AES and EBU are standards organizations. Breakaway A condition where a destination has multiple sources on different levels. Category A category represents a set of devices. (The concept of categories exists to make it easier to select devices at a control panel.) A category can contain sources, destinations, or devices that are both sources and destinations.
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Glossary A device can be both a source and destination. An example of such a device is a VTR. System The system administrator is the person responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining a administrator router control system. Tally (1) High or low button illumination. (2) Tally interface to be defined.
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