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  • Page 1 60-550/551 User Manual LXI High Density EMR Matrix pickeringtest.com Issue 7.5 September 2023...
  • Page 2 © COPYRIGHT (2023) PICKERING INTERFACES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, translated or stored in any form, or by any means without the written permission of Pickering Interfaces. Technical details contained within this publication are subject to change without notice.
  • Page 3 Pickering Interfaces strives to fulfil all relevant environmental laws and regulations and reduce wastes and releases to the environment. Pickering Interfaces aims to design and operate products in a way that protects the environment and the health and safety of its employees, customers and the public. Pickering Interfaces endeavours to develop and manufacture products that can be produced, distributed, used and recycled, or disposed of, in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.

  • Page 4: Product Safety

    If this product is heavy reference should be made to the safety instructions for provisions of lifting and moving. STATIC SENSITIVE To indicate that static sensitive devices are present and handling precautions should be followed. REED RELAY MODULE 40-110/115/120/125 LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page (IV) Page (IV)

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    LAN Reset .................6.2 Section 7 Maintenance Information ............7.1 Switching System Test Tools ..........7.1 Relay Look-Up Tables ............7.1 Products without BIRST ..........7.2 60-550/551 Parts List .............7.10 Appendix A Fitting Rack Mounting Flanges ..........A.1 LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page (V)
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  • Page 7: Warnings And Cautions

    I/O signals that may be present. Blanking panels are available to order from Pickering. If the product is not used in this manner for example by using an extender card then additional care must be taken to avoid contact with exposed signals.
  • Page 8 AND USERS SHOULD CONNECT TO THE FRONT PANEL CONNECTORS WITH CONNECTORS OR CABLE ASSEMBLIES THAT ENSURE OPERATORS WILL NOT INADVERTENTLY COME IN CONTACT WITH HIGH VOLTAGES. LXI HIGH VOLTAGE 2-POLE MATRIX 60-310 Page viii LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page (VIII)
  • Page 9 60W Max Power It is programmable via the LAN interface using Pickering Interfaces’ The 60-550 is a high density single pole 512x8 matrix suitable for generic switch driver. Industry standard (W3C) web browsers can be signal routing in large ATE systems. It is easily expanded to produce...
  • Page 10 LXI High Density 512x8 EMR Matrix – 60-550/551 Matrix Expansion The 60-550/551 may be expanded to larger matrix sizes by using cabling to daisy-chain the Y signals. The illustrations below show four 60-550-008 512x8 matrices interconnected as a 2048x8 matrix using specially constructed cables.
  • Page 11 LXI High Density 512x8 EMR Matrix – 60-550/551 Relay Type LAN Interface Compliant to LXI Standard 1.4, the 60-550/551 has a 1000Base-T The 60-550/551 is fitted with high quality electro-mechanical Ethernet Interface via a standard RJ-45 connector mounted on the relays.
  • Page 12 Please contact your local sales office to discuss. Soft Front Panel for the 60-550 Matrix - can be executed as a Java applet from the device’s LXI homepage and allows graphical control of the matrix pickeringtest.com...
  • Page 13 We provide a full range of supporting cable and connector solutions for all our switching products—20 connector families with 1200+ products. We offer everything from simple mating connectors to complex cables assemblies and terminal blocks. All assemblies are manufactured by Pickering and are guaranteed to mechanically and electrically mate to our modules. Connectors & Backshells...
  • Page 14 Signal Routing Software Our signal routing software, Switch Path Manager, automatically selects and energizes switch paths through Pickering switching systems. Signal routing is performed by simply defining test system endpoints to be connected together, greatly accelerating Test System software development.

  • Page 15: Technical Description

    Base Board/Daughter Board combination. Each Base Board or Daughter Board is populated with a 64x8 matrix and, in its smallest matrix size, the 60-550 is fitted with only a left Base Board (designated “A”) with one Daughter Board mounted on top. A 256x8 matrix has a left and a right “A”...

  • Page 16: Matrix Architecture

    The following diagrams show the architecture of the 60-550 and 60-551 matrices in more detail than the basic diagram on Page 1-1. The 60-550 consists of up to eight 64x8 sub-matrices linked by two analog buses - see Figure 2-2.
  • Page 17 64 x 4 MARIX CARD 2 X129 X192 Isolation Switches 64 x 4 MARIX CARD 3 X449 X512 Isolation Switches 64 x 4 MARIX CARD 8 Figure 2-3. Architecture Diagram for the 512x4 Matrix (60-551-008) LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 2.3...
  • Page 18 SECTION 2 - TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 2.4...

  • Page 19: Installation

    HARDWARE INSTALLATION The 60-550/551 may be mounted on a desk top or fitted into a standard 19 inch rack (rack mounting flanges are supplied with the device and can be fitted to either side of the front panel). When fitting into a rack it is important...

  • Page 20: Setting The Ip Address

    Once you have the required information, the IP configuration window is used to manually set the IP address. This is shown in Figure 3-4. The current IP address setting of the 60-550/551 is indicated on an LCD display on the rear panel of the chassis. Figure 3-3. Display for IP Address on Rear Panel Incorrect setting will result in a loss of communication and may also be indicated by a red LAN LED on the front panel.

  • Page 21: Soft Front Panel Operation

    SOFT FRONT PANEL OPERATION The 60-550/551 High Density Matrix can be programmed using the Soft Front Panel. This can be run as a Java Applet from the device’s LXI home page. You must have the Java Runtime environment loaded from Sun Microsystems to use this facility.
  • Page 22 SECTION 3 - INSTALLATION pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 3.4...

  • Page 23: Programming Guide

    SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE PROGRAMMING OPTIONS FOR PICKERING INTERFACES LXI UNITS For information on the installation and use of drivers and the programming of Pickering’s products in various software environments, please refer to the Software User Manual. This is available as a download from: https://www.pickeringtest.com/support/software-drivers-and-downloads...

  • Page 24: Programming The 60-550/551

    PROGRAMMING THE 60-550/551 The 60-550 is a matrix which has a maximum size of 512 connections on its X axis and 8 on its Y axis. Smaller versions are also available. The x dimension is built using a set of 64 wide sub-matrix sections, each connected to one of two y-buses using a set of isolation relays, 16 per sub-matrix.

  • Page 25: Sub-Unit Allocations

    A isolation switches, and one for all the Analog Bus B isolation switches. The following table shows the sub-unit allocations for each version of the 60-550 and 60-551 High Density Matrix. Figure 4-2 diagrammatically shows the arrangement of the sub-units of the 512x8 version (60-550-028) comprising 8 sub-matrices. All other versions operate in the same way but have fewer sub-matrices fitted.
  • Page 26 64 x 8 MARIX CARD 2 Sub-Unit 2 - ya Isolation Switches X449 X512 Sub-Unit 3 - yb Isolation Switches 64 x 8 MARIX CARD 8 Figure 4-2. 60-550-028 High Density 512x8 Matrix - Sub-Unit Allocations LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.4...

  • Page 27: Direct Io Driver

    The Direct I/O driver is in reality composed of a suite of separate libraries which interact to provide full control of a Pickering LXI device. In the case of a switch card the communications library picmlx, and the switching library piplx, are needed.

  • Page 28: Ivi Driver

    Sub-Matrix 7, X connections xA449..xA512 Sub-Matrix 8, X connections yA1..yA8 All Sub-Matrices, Y connections TABLE 4-3 - Analog Backplane A Isolation Switches, IVI Driver Naming - 60-550 IVI Channel Name Function X Connection Range comB1, chB1 Sub-Matrix 1, connects Y1 to backplane “ya1”...
  • Page 29 SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering TABLE 4-4 - Analog Backplane B Isolation Switches, IVI Driver Naming - 60-550 IVI Channel Name Function X Connection Range comC1, chC1 Sub-Matrix 1, connects Y1 to backplane “yb1” X1 to X64 comC8, chC8 Sub-Matrix 1, connects Y8 to backplane “yb8”...
  • Page 30 X385 to X448 comC28, chC28 Sub-Matrix 7, connects Y4 to backplane “yb4” comC29, chC29 Sub-Matrix 8, connects Y1 to backplane “yb1” X449 to X512 comC32, chC32 Sub-Matrix 8, connects Y4 to backplane “yb4” LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.8...
  • Page 31 The following code snippet demonstrates the minimum steps required to operate a switch on a Pickering LXI unit. Firstly a device session is opened on the card located at bus 0, device 5 inside the LXI unit located at 192.168.1.100.
  • Page 32 Y bus to Analog Bus A or B without having any visibility of the isolation relays. Tables 4-8 and 4-9 give an overview of the channel names for 60-550 and 60-551 respectively and an IVI program example is shown on the following page.
  • Page 33 The following code snippet demonstrates the minimum steps required to operate a switch on a Pickering LXI unit. Firstly a device session is opened on the card located at bus 0, device 5 inside the LXI unit located at 192.168.1.100.
  • Page 34 Soft Front Panel The 60-550/551 High Density Matrix can be programmed using the supplied Soft Front Panel. This can be run as a Java Applet from the devices LXI home page. An example of this is shown in Figure 4-3. For a description of the controls, refer to “Soft Front Panel Operation”...

  • Page 35: Command Line Control

    LXI instrument from the Windows utility PILMon and provides identical functionality. Enabling the Command Line Control Utility Pickering LXI devices do not provide an SSH server in the normal configuration state, the service must be explicitly enabled.
  • Page 36 SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering Step 2 - Enable the SSH server Select the ‘Instrument Control’ page from the main menu. Navigate to section ‘SSH Server Control’. Click on toggle button to enable SSH server. LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.14...
  • Page 37 LAN Reset button located at the rear of the device in the appropriate manner, refer to Section 7 of this manual for details of this process. Disabling security will stop the SSH service. LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.15...
  • Page 38 First start up the SSH client and enter the IP address of the LXI device. The user will be prompted for a login name and password. The username for instrument control is ‘sshuser’, the password is that defined by the user when setting security. LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.16...
  • Page 39 Before attempting to control a card it is important to understand the switch architecture of that card and to know how to address the required switch. Each Pickering switch card is represented as a set of one or more sub-units, each sub-unit containing one or more switches.
  • Page 40 See following examples: UW 0xFFFF will energise first 16 relays (bits: 1 .. 16) UW 0xFFFF0000 will energise 16 relays (bits: 17 .. 32) UW 0xFFFFFFFF00000000 will energise 32 relays (bits: 33 .. 64) LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.18...
  • Page 41 It is important to realise the difference between Read and View operations. READ is used to read back data from an input, VIEW to read back the current state of an output. LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.19...
  • Page 42 # Lets close the relay on 4th column and 3rd row pilmon>xc 4 3 # Now let’s select 2nd subunit (SWITCH(24)) pilmon>usl 1 2 # Lets close the 1st bit pilmon>sc 1 # Lets close the 25th bit pilmon>sc 25 Error occured: 5 (Bit number out of range for target card.) # Ahh. We are working with SWITCH(24) so we could not operate with 25th bit. # Let’s clear the subunit pilmon>uc # Let’s clear all switches on all subunits of selected card pilmon>cc LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.20...

  • Page 43: Using The Soft Front Panel

    SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering Using The Soft Front Panel LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.21...
  • Page 44 SECTION 4 - PROGRAMMING GUIDE pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 4.22...

  • Page 45: Connections

    X321 to X384 & Y1B to Y8B X1 to 64 X257 to X320 & Y1A to Y8A Figure 5-1. Front Panel Connector Layout for the 60-550 LXI High Density EMR Matrix (512x8 version) LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 5.1...
  • Page 46 Ethernet Port LAN Reset Service Port (for Pickering diagnostics only) IP Address Display Mains Inlet Fuses Power Switch Figure 5-2. Rear Panel Connector Layout for the 60-550/551 LXI High Density EMR Matrix LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 5.2...
  • Page 47 SECTION 5 - CONNECTOR INFORMATION pickering The following diagrams show the connector pinout information for a fully populated 60-550 High Density Matrix with a size of 512x8. The variants with smaller matrix sizes have pin numbering in the same sequence as shown in the following diagrams up to the maximum X or Y count specified.
  • Page 48 Y7B (NC) Y8B (NC) FP_GND Figure 5.4 - X and YB Connections for 60-550: Lower Left Middle Male 78-pin D-type “X65-X128, Y1B-Y8B” NOTE: This is also applicable to the 60-551 connector “X65-X128, Y1B-Y4B”, the differences in pin assignments are shown in brackets.
  • Page 49 X178 X179 X180 X181 X182 X183 X184 X185 X186 X187 X188 X189 X190 X191 X192 FP_GND Figure 5.5 - X Connections for 60-550 & 60-551: Lower Right Middle Male 78-pin D-type “X129-X192” LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 5.5...
  • Page 50 X242 X243 X244 X245 X246 X247 X248 X249 X250 X251 X252 X253 X254 X255 X256 FP_GND Figure 5.6 - X Connections for 60-550 & 60-551: Lower Right End Male 78-pin D-type “X193-X256” LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 5.6...
  • Page 51 X306 X307 X308 X309 X310 X311 X312 X313 X314 X315 X316 X317 X318 X319 X320 FP_GND Figure 5.7 - X Connections for 60-550 & 60-551: Upper Left End Male 78-pin D-type “X257-X320” LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 5.7...
  • Page 52 X370 X371 X372 X373 X374 X375 X376 X377 X378 X379 X380 X381 X382 X383 X384 FP_GND Figure 5.8 - X Connections for 60-550 & 60-551: Upper Left Middle Male 78-pin D-type “X321-X384” LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 5.8...
  • Page 53 X434 X435 X436 X437 X438 X439 X440 X441 X442 X443 X444 X445 X446 X447 X448 FP_GND Figure 5.9 - X Connections for 60-550 & 60-551: Upper Right Middle Male 78-pin D-type “X385-X448” LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 5.9...
  • Page 54 X498 X499 X500 X501 X502 X503 X504 X505 X506 X507 X508 X509 X510 X511 X512 FP_GND Figure 5.10 - X Connections for 60-550 & 60-551: Upper Right End Male 78-pin D-type “X449-X512” LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 5.10...

  • Page 55: Trouble Shooting

    Refer to the Warnings and Cautions at the front of this manual INSTALLATION PROBLEMS The Plug & Play functionality of Pickering switching products generally ensures trouble-free installation. If you do experience any installation problems you should first ensure that all cables are properly connected.

  • Page 56: Lan Reset

    Q All of my device’s lights are on, why don’t I see a green Ready light, even after a few minutes? Your device has a fault, contact your local sales office. Please contact your local Pickering Interfaces sales office for any further support or email: Lxisupport@pickeringtest.com You can also visit our website for product updates, help and downloadable materials at: http://www.pickeringtest.com...

  • Page 57: Maintenance Information

    USING BIRST ™ (BUILT-IN RELAY SELF TEST) The Pickering Interfaces BIRST (Built-In Relay Self Test) Tool provides a simple means of testing selected Pickering Interfaces switching products, including this model. The tool can be used to find relay faults or to provide confirmation that a product is operating correctly, either as part of the regular system calibration or because a system fault is suspected and the switch system needs to be eliminated from the fault finding procedure.

  • Page 58: Products Without Birst

    Products without BIRST For users who have qualified the 60-550/551 products without the BIRST feature the corresponding relay tables are the same as for the BIRST versions. Should you require any additional information related to them not contained in this manual please contact the factory.
  • Page 59 RL29 RL73 RL30 RL74 RL31 RL75 RL32 RL76 RL33 RL77 RL34 RL78 RL35 RL79 RL36 RL80 RL37 RL81 RL38 RL82 RL39 RL83 RL40 RL84 RL41 RL85 RL42 RL86 RL43 RL87 RL44 RL88 LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.3...
  • Page 60 RL117 RL161 RL118 RL162 RL119 RL163 RL120 RL164 RL121 RL165 RL122 RL166 RL123 RL167 RL124 RL168 RL125 RL169 RL126 RL170 RL127 RL171 RL128 RL172 RL129 RL173 RL130 RL174 RL131 RL175 RL132 RL176 LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.4...
  • Page 61 RL205 RL249 RL206 RL250 RL207 RL251 RL208 RL252 RL209 RL253 RL210 RL254 RL211 RL255 RL212 RL256 RL213 RL257 RL214 RL258 RL215 RL259 RL216 RL260 RL217 RL261 RL218 RL262 RL219 RL263 RL220 RL264 LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.5...
  • Page 62 RL293 RL337 RL294 RL338 RL295 RL339 RL296 RL340 RL297 RL341 RL298 RL342 RL299 RL343 RL300 RL344 RL301 RL345 RL302 RL346 RL303 RL347 RL304 RL348 RL305 RL349 RL306 RL350 RL307 RL351 RL308 RL352 LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.6...
  • Page 63 RL381 RL425 RL382 RL426 RL383 RL427 RL384 RL428 RL385 RL429 RL386 RL430 RL387 RL431 RL388 RL432 RL389 RL433 RL390 RL434 RL391 RL435 RL392 RL436 RL393 RL437 RL394 RL438 RL395 RL439 RL396 RL440 LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.7...
  • Page 64 RL518 ISOLATION RL475 RL519 ISOLATION RL476 RL520 ISOLATION RL477 RL521 ISOLATION RL478 RL522 ISOLATION RL479 RL523 ISOLATION RL480 RL524 ISOLATION RL481 RL525 ISOLATION RL482 RL526 ISOLATION RL483 RL527 ISOLATION RL484 RL528 ISOLATION LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.8...
  • Page 65 SECTION 7 - MAINTENANCE INFORMATION pickering Figure 7-1. PCB layout for one 64x8 Matrix Board with relay positions highlighted LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.9...
  • Page 66 60-550/551 CHASSIS PARTS LIST The 60-550 LXI High Density Matrix chassis contains two main Base boards and, depending upon the specific variant, up to two further Base boards and four Matrix Daughter boards. As well as the matrix boards, the chassis houses a Power Supply, Power Distribution Board, Bridge Board and a Microcontroller assembly.
  • Page 67 SECTION 7 - MAINTENANCE INFORMATION pickering Table 7-2. 60-550/551 LXI High Density Matrix Chassis Parts List for a fully loaded matrix (items highlighted in yellow are fitted to the 60-550 only and items highlighted in blue are fitted to 60-551 only)
  • Page 68 MATRIX BASE BOARD “A” LOWER RIGHT- 64x8 Figure 7-3. 60-550 LXI High Density Matrix: Chassis Layout for a fully loaded 512x8 matrix (60-551 is the same but with the matrix boards populated as 64x4 and a maximum size of 512x4) LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.12...
  • Page 69 (60-551-028) MATRIX BASE BOARD “A” (PCB 1) MATRIX BASE BOARD “A” (PCB 3) Figure 7-4. 60-550 & 60-551 LXI High Density Matrix: Base Board / Daughter Board Combinations as viewed from front of chassis LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551...
  • Page 70 Switch Drivers and Relay Matrix The signal switching for the 60-550 is carried out by two Matrix Base Boards and up to two Matrix Daughter Boards and a further two Base Boards arranged as two stacks of four. The front panel 78-pin male D-type signal connectors are mounted on the Matrix Base Boards, the number of signal connectors is dependant upon the version, a fully populated 60-550 has eight.
  • Page 71 For a fully populated 60-550, a further Matrix Daughter Board is mounted above each of the Base Boards “B” giving a maximum matrix size of 512x8. This creates a left and right stack, each four boards high, with signals being transferred with inter-board connectors.
  • Page 72 60-550 CHASSIS Mains Power Input Figure 7-5. Internal Wiring For the 60-550 fully loaded 512x8 LXI High Density Matrix (60-551 is the same but with a different build of matrix board populated as 64x4 giving a maximum size of 512x4) LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page 7.16...

  • Page 73: Fitting Rack Mounting Flanges

    APPENDIX A - FITTING RACK MOUNTING FLANGES Pickering’s LXI devices are supplied with mounting flanges to enable fitting into a standard 19 inch rack. The following procedure describes the attachment of the flanges to the unit’s side extrusions, a No.1 cross head screwdriver will be required.
  • Page 74 APPENDIX A - FITTING RACK MOUNTING FLANGES pickering THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK LXI HIGH DENSITY EMR MATRIX 60-550/551 Page A.2...

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