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Page 1 OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL OBSIDIAN® V23-1...
Page 2: Table Of Contents
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 1. Table of contents 1. Table of contents 2. About this document 2.1. Legend 2.2. Online versions 2.2.1. OBSIDIAN® Technical Reference Manual 2.2.2. IOLITE® Technical Reference Manual 2.2.3. DewesoftX® User Manual 3. Getting started 3.1. Software installation 3.2.
Page 3 9. Safety instructions 9.1. Safety symbols in the manual 9.2. General Safety Instructions 9.2.1. Environmental Considerations 9.2.2. Product End-of-Life Handling 9.2.3. System and Components Recycling 9.2.4. General safety and hazard warnings for all Dewesoft systems 10. Documentation version history OBSIDIAN® V23-1 3/54...
Page 4: About This Document
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 2. About this document This is the Technical Reference Manual for OBSIDIAN® Systems. OBSIDIAN® embedded data acquisition system based on a low-power ARM processor with Linux-based open architecture. OBSIDIAN® can act like a standalone data logger, real-time control system, and signal conditioning frontend, all at the same time.
Page 5: Online Versions
2.2. Online versions 2.2.1. OBSIDIAN® Technical Reference Manual The most recent version of this manual can be downloaded from our homepage: https://dewesoft.com/download/manuals In the Hardware Manuals section click the download link for the OBSIDIAN® technical reference manual. 2.2.2. IOLITE® Technical Reference Manual The most recent version of this manual can be downloaded from our homepage: https://dewesoft.com/download/manuals...
Page 6: Getting Started
DewesoftX® installed, please check if a newer version is already available. You can either check for this on the Dewesoft website under the “Support -> Dewesoft Downloads” section or directly in the software under the “Options -> Check for updates”. In both cases, the full changelog is included. Check for updates 3.2.
Page 7: Connecting Obsidian® Device In Standalone Mode
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Standalone mode - when used as a standalone device, the software on the embedded Linux system is controlling the OBSIDIAN device therefore an additional PC for data acquisition/storing is not required. The PC with DewesoftX software is only needed for the device conﬁguration. To start the conﬁguration, the device needs to be connected to the PC over a GLAN connector.
Page 8: Ethernet Configuration On The Pc
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 3.3.1. Ethernet conﬁguration on the PC In order to access the OBSIDIAN® over as a GLAN, you have to set a static address on your PC. The static address should be part of the same subnet as the address of the device. You need to set up the following settings on your PC’s network card: deﬁne the IP address (e.g.
Page 9 OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL DewesoftX® settings Press the + button under the Devices menu to reach the conﬁguration window, where you can select which device or device plugin you want to add to your system. Adding new network devices in HW settings All the network devices will be listed under the “Detected devices”...
Page 10 OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL To add the device simply click on the wanted device in “Detected devices” list. If you want to add multiple devices at once enable the “Add multiple” option ﬁrst. Adding OBSIDIAN® device in HW-setup Hint If the OBSIDIAN® device is still not detected, please check Windows ﬁrewall settings. If your ﬁrewall is turned on and you didn’t add DewesoftX to exceptions during its installation, create a new “Inbound Rule”...
Page 11: Synchronization Of The Connected System
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL OBSIDIAN-R8 device in HW settings 3.3.2.2. Synchronization of the connected system When the device is already added in DewesoftX software you need to go to “Local system” settings and under “Synchronization” you can adjust the synchronization conﬁguration for the connected system. When running as a standalone device, no additional synchronization is needed and the settings can be left on “Automatic”.
Page 12: Channel Setup Obsidian
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL OBSIDIAN-R8 informations 3.3.3. Channel Setup OBSIDIAN® Once you switch to channel setup you can see all the channels of the connected devices. For more detailed information and a signal preview, you can enter the channel setup by clicking on the Setup button in the DS-Grid.
Page 13: Simple Measurement
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Channel setup with all the listed channels 3.4. Simple measurement This chapter describes measurement basics, how to conﬁgure OBSIDIAN®, and gives some details on the measurement setup. 3.4.1. Help - Manual Note that this document is just a quick start guide. For detailed information about DewesoftX® consult the Manual.
Page 14: Analog Channel Setup
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Help - Manual When DewesoftX® has started up, you will be in Measure mode and see the Setup ﬁles list or you can create a New setup ❶. Click on Ch. setup (on the right of Setup ﬁles) to switch to the Channel setup mode ❷.
Page 15: Sample Rate
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL All the channels that are selected to “Used” in the Analog-in module, can be later used in any of the RT-modules. 3.4.3. Sample rate As mentioned before, the maximum sample rate on the OBSIDIAN® device is 20kHz, but it differs per the IOLITE DAQ module.
Page 16: Real-Time Module
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 3.4.4. Real-time module The Real-time module gives you an overview of all connected OBSIDIAN® devices and their RT conﬁguration. When multiple devices are connected, each device's settings will appear in a separate tab. There are three sections where you can see the device's current status, upload or download device conﬁguration and start/stop the RT mode on the device.
Page 17: Logger Rt Module
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Real-time module Hint RT-mode refers to either start storing internally on the device or starting the signal output from the device over AO RT out, XCP out, or CAN RT out. 3.4.5. Logger RT module If you want to store data directly on the device, or on any external drives connected to the device, ﬁrst you need to enable the Logger mode and properly deﬁne storing settings and the number of channels you want to store.
Page 18: Measurement Mode
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Logger RT module setup 3.4.6. Measurement mode For starting the measurement - starting recording on the device or starting the signal conditioning over CAN, AO, XCP protocol, we need to enable the so-called “RT mode” - this can be done through the Real-time module or through the RT not running RT status button OBSIDIAN®...
Page 19: Analyze Mode
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Real-Time module settings Once the device is in RT-mode the conﬁguration of the device is locked, meaning that you can not change any parameters. 3.4.7. Analyze mode When you store the data internally (on the device), you need to ﬁrst import the data from the SD-Card to the DewesoftX software on your computer.
Page 20: Analyze Mode In Dewesoftx
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL RT Data Logger importer menu In the settings you will see a list of channels with some additional properties. You can also select which channel you want to import in DewesoftX. The newly created *.dxd ﬁle will have the same name as the binary ﬁle that you are importing.
Page 21: Output Rt Modules
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Analyze mode The Review mode is much like the measurement mode. You will see the same measurement displays, the channel-selector list, and the properties of the currently selected widget. Differences are: ❶ you have additional tool-buttons ❷...
Page 22: Output Data Over The Ao Channel
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL CAN RT output module settings 3.4.8.2. Output data over the AO channel The “Analog output” module is designed for outputting the measured values through the optional analog outputs if the OBSIDIAN is conﬁgured with the needed hardware. Here you can enable the output functionality and deﬁne which input channel should be output on which analog output channel.
Page 23: Output Data Over Xcp Protocol
Switching between internal and external availability of modules Once the device is set properly you can connect your OBSIDIAN® device with a 8-pin LEMO connector to the PC. The device will be recognized automatically and will be listed under the Dewesoft Devices in HW settings.
Page 24: How To Connect Obsidian® Device In External Master Mode
● the section Drivers. Copy the ﬁle into the Firmwares folder of your DewesoftX® installation (e.g. ● D:\DewesoftX\System\Firmwares). Connect the Dewesoft instrument to the PC and run DewesoftX®. ● Go to settings under the Update tab: ● OBSIDIAN® V23-1 24/54...
Page 25 OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Firmware update settings If the ﬁrmware package isn’t selected, select it by pressing the button and ﬁnd the folder with the ● ﬁrmware ﬁle in it. Select the device you want to upgrade and start the ﬁrmware upgrade by pressing the “Upgrade” ●...
Page 26: Licensing
TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 3.7. Licensing IOLITE or any other Dewesoft device already comes with an embedded DewesoftX® license. You can check the license details with all the available options in the Licensing tab ❶ by pressing the three-dotted buttons ❻. However, if the user decides to upgrade the license with an additional extension, DewesoftX®...
Page 27: System Overview
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 4. System Overview OBSIDIAN® Data logger and embedded data acquisition system Voltage Strain / Stress Quarter Bridge Half Bridge Full Bridge Thermocouple Current Resistance Ethernet EtherCAT OPC-UA CAN out XCP out CAN bus Data logger IP40 -10 °C to +50 °C OBSIDIAN®...
Page 28: Main Features
-10℃ to 50℃, certain conﬁgurations can operate in the range from 40℃ to +85℃ temperature.. EXTERNAL MASTER MODE: Instead of being used internally by Dewesoft RT, the primary ● EtherCAT® bus can be switched to external mode, allowing OBSIDIAN® to be used like a regular IOLITE system for full speed buffered data acquisition to a computer running DewesoftX DAQ software.
Page 29: System Specifications
ESD protection 8 kV Internals CPU type Operating system Linux Software Dewesoft RT Internal storage 32 GB MMC Expandable storage SD card up to 2 TB, USB-C Type external storage Power Power supply Dual redundant 9 - 48 V DC Power consumption 5.8 W @ 24 V (without modules)
Page 30: Enclosure Overview
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 4.3. Enclosure Overview OBSIDIAN® is currently only available in standalone aluminum chassis that provides provides 8 slots for IOLITE input and output slices to be installed. 4.3.1. OBSIDIAN-R8: Boxed Chassis 4.3.1.1. OBSIDIAN-R8: Boxed Chassis: Renders OBSIDIAN-R8 Front panel OBSIDIAN®...
Page 31 OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL OBSIDIAN-R8 Backpanel OBSIDIAN® V23-1 31/54...
Page 32: Obsidian-R8: Boxed Chassis: Dimensions
The OBSIDIAN® chassis also enables dual EtherCAT bus. There are two 8-pin LEMO 1B connectors on the back panel of OBSIDIAN® used for data transfer and synchronization on the primary bus (BUS 1) for buffered data. The OUT connector on BUS 1 also enables power supply for external Dewesoft EtherCAT devices.
Page 33: Obsidian-R8: Boxed Chassis: Power In: Pinout
Next to the PWR IN connector is a GND socket for grounding the OBSIDIAN-R8. Synchronization with Dewesoft USB data acquisition devices or connection to clock master is on OBSIDIAN-R8 enabled by connecting a synchronization cable to two SYNC inputs (4-pin LEMO 00).
Page 34: Obsidian-R8: Boxed Chassis: Sync: Pinout
The sync connectors are required when you want to synchronize the data from OBSIDIAN® with Dewesoft USB devices for the same measurement. The signal that is transferred over sync cable makes sure that the measurement data of OBSIDIAN® and Dewesoft USB devices are perfectly synchronized to each other.
Page 35: Obsidian-R8: Boxed Chassis: Bus 1: In: Pinout
Mating connector (for the cable): FGJ.1T.308.CLL.1433 4.3.1.3.4. OBSIDIAN-R8: Boxed Chassis: BUS 1: OUT: Pinout The OUT connector of the primary EtherCAT bus (BUS 1) is a 8-pin LEMO 1B female connector. OUT connector enables power supply for external Dewesoft EtherCAT devices. Name Description...
Page 36: Obsidian-R8: Boxed Chassis: Glan
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Important Pins 5 and 6 of the EtherCAT IN 8-pin LEMO connector are not connected. You can not power multiple R8r systems with the EtherCAT line and should always provide a separate power supply and connect it to the Power in connector of each of the systems. However, you can power other devices with EtherCAT OUT! 4.3.1.3.5.
Page 37: Obsidian-R8: Boxed Chassis: Can1/Can2
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 4.3.1.3.7. OBSIDIAN-R8: Boxed Chassis: CAN1/CAN2 A CAN bus connector, with two CAN channels Name Description i5V OUT Isolated 5V output (max. 150 CAN1 LOW CAN Low for First Bus IGND Isolated Digital Ground CAN2 LOW CAN Low for Second Bus CAN2 HIGH CAN High for Second Bus IGND...
Page 38: Module Overview
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Name Description TX_P Transmission + TX_N Transmission - RX_P Reception + RX_N Reception - EtherCAT connector: pin-out (RJ-45 female) 5. Module overview OBSIDIAN® device is compatible with the following IOLITE single slices. For more detailed information regarding the modules please refer to IOLITE technical manual.
Page 39 OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Thermocouple DSI-TH¹ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ Current 20 mA (internal shunt), DSI-5A, ±20 mA, ±2 mA ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ DSIi-10A, DSIi-20A Potentiometer ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ LVDT DSI-LVDT ✗ ✗...
Page 40: Connection Examples
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL LVDT ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ Charge ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ TEDS ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ Isolation voltage 1000 V 1000 V 1000 V 1000 V 1000 V 1000 V 1000 V...
Page 41: Obsidian-R8 And Krypton Devices
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL multiple OBSIDIAN® devices and for the conﬁguration no additional synchronization is needed. Connection example: twp OBSIDIAN-R8 devices 6.3. OBSIDIAN-R8 and Krypton devices To complete the system with additional channels the user can simply connect KRYPTON devices directly to the EtherCAT OUT port (8-pin LEMO connector) on the back of the OBSIDIAN®...
Page 42: Obsidian-R8 And Gps Module (Ds-Gps-Sync-10Hz)
With the OBSIDIAN-R8 unit the GPS module is not integrated inside the device, but the user can connect external GPS module directly to the USB-C port on the back of the device. To have a complete Dewesoft solution you can add DS-GPS-SYNC-10Hz which you can ﬁnd in Dewesoft conﬁgurator. Connection example: OBSIDIAN-R8 and external GPS module Once the GPS is connected to the device additional GPS channels can be stored internally.
Page 43: Obsidian-R8 And Sirius Device
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL Additional GPS channels inside DewesoftX If you use third party GPS receiver you need to adjust the following NMEA settings RMC (Time, date, position, course and speed data) ● GGA (Time, position and ﬁx type data) ●...
Page 44: Obsidian-R8 Connected With Ds-Wifi4
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 6.6. OBSIDIAN-R8 connected with DS-WIFI4 For remote connection you can also use the mobile outdoor Wi-ﬁ communication set DS-WIFI4 Connection example: OBSIDIAN-R8 connected to the PC over DS-WIFI4 OBSIDIAN® V23-1 44/54...
Page 45: Accessories
7.1. Scope of supply for OBSIDIAN-R8 system When an OBSIDIAN-R8 device is ordered you get the following scope of supply with the device: Ethernet cable Dewesoft Bag USB-key with the latest DewesoftX version 7.2. Expandable storage: External disk or SD card You can extend the 32GB internal storage that is already available on the OBSIDIAN®...
Page 46: D9F-2D9M-Xm-Can-Dual
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 7.3. D9f-2D9m-Xm-CAN-DUAL The Y CAN-dual cable is used for splitting the two CAN ports that are available on the DSUB-9 CAN connector on the back of the OBSIDIAN® device. Pin-out of the female DSUB-9 connector that is connected to the OBSIDIAN® device. Name Description 5V power supply...
Page 47: Dewesoftm
OBSIDIAN® device. You can download the DewesoftM mobile app from the Google play store. Important The DewesoftM mobile application is a beta version. Please inform any of the found bugs to the support@dewesoft.com Connection to the OBSIDIAN® device OBSIDIAN® V23-1 47/54...
Page 48: Warranty Information
8.2. Support Dewesoft has a team of people ready to assist you if you have any questions or any technical difﬁculties regarding the system. For any support please contact your local distributor ﬁrst or Dewesoft directly.
Page 49: Printing History
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Page 50: Safety Instructions
Failure to comply with these precautions or with speciﬁc warnings elsewhere in this manual violates safety standards of design, manufacture, and intended use of the product. Dewesoft d.o.o. assumes no liability for the customer’s failure to comply with these requirements.
Page 51: General Safety And Hazard Warnings For All Dewesoft Systems
REMOVE POWER and do not use the product until the safe operation can be veriﬁed by service-trained personnel. If necessary, return the product to Dewesoft sales and service ofﬁce for service and repair to ensure that safety features are maintained.
Page 52 OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL noises. The system does not work anymore. The system has been exposed to long storage in adverse environments. The system has been exposed to heavy shipment strain. Warranty void if damages caused by disregarding this manual. For consequential damages, NO ●...
Page 53 OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL IEC 61326-1 applies to this part of IEC 61326 but is limited to systems and equipment for industrial applications intended to perform safety functions as deﬁned in IEC 61508 with SIL 1-3. The electromagnetic environments encompassed by this product family standard are industrial, both indoor and outdoor, as described for industrial locations in IEC 61000-6-2 or deﬁned in 3.7 of IEC 61326-1.
Page 54: Documentation Version History
OBSIDIAN® TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL 10. Documentation version history Version Date Notes 2023-1 27.6.2023 First version OBSIDIAN® V23-1 54/54...

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