System Overview - ST EVALCOMMBOARD Manual

System overview

1 System overview
The ST Industrial Communication Board is a general purpose board developed around the
following principles:
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Provide a reliable communication channel between a controlling PC and Industrial
reference design boards
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Provide flexibility, one board to control all Industrial reference designs
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Run dedicated firmware (FW) available for all reference designs
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Interact with dedicated software (SW) implementing reference design Graphical User
Interface (GUI)
This enables ST Industrial customers to control and test all products using the same
controlling platform.
The ST Industrial Communication Board is based on a ST72F651AR6 USB microcontroller,
providing as main interface to controlling Personal Computer a standard 12 Mbs USB,
available on all modern PCs. This provides very easy interconnections to globally available
laboratory equipment. An RS232 interface is present too, and can be used as spare
communication port.
Specific interfaces to reference design boards are present to provide flexibility towards
different applications.
A 10-bit Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) and high gain, high bandwidth amplifiers are
present on board.
Jumpers, switches and LEDs give further adaptability and visualization tools.
A full range of dedicated FW, GUIs and reference design boards are available for every ST
Industrial product, fully compatible with the ST Industrial Communication Board.
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