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News Release from: United Electronic Industries | Subject: UEIPAC automation controller
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 29 August 2007
Automation controllers receive upgrade
The UEIPAC Cube automation controller is a complete, self-contained controller that has flown in F-16, F-18, B-747 and predator aircraft.
United Electronic Industries (UEI) has upgraded its UEIPAC programmable automation controller Both the maximum sample rate and the PAC's ability to process PID loops have been sped up by greater than a factor of eight
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The UEIPAC now allows analogue input sample rates up to 576,000 samples per second and up to eight simultaneous PID loops at greater than 20kHz.
The new functionality greatly increases the PAC's capability in larger, more complex automation applications.
No changes to existing code are required to take advantage of the new performance.
Existing PACs are field upgradeable and there is no charge for the upgrade.
"The UEIPAC has become very popular in a wide variety of industrial, aerospace and automotive applications" according to UEI President Shaun Miller.
"The new higher performance will allow our existing customers to expand the scope of their applications and will open the door to new, higher speed, higher complexity applications from new customers".
The UEIPAC Cube is a complete, self-contained controller and includes an embedded computer running standard Linux OS, two Ethernet ports, a serial port, an SD Card interface, an inter-PAC sync interface and either three or six slots for I/O boards.
The Cubes are very rugged, and have been tested from -40C to +85C, at 5g vibration, 50g shock and up to 21,336m.
The Cubes have flown in F-16, F-18, B-747 and predator aircraft.
They have recently passed a comprehensive radiation test and are slated for use in the international space station.
The UEIPAC 300 allows the installation of up to three I/O boards.
The UEIPAC 600 is slightly larger at 101.6 x 104.14 x 147.32mm and allows the installation of up to six I/O boards (containing up to 150 analogue inputs or 288 DIO).
The I/O boards installed are determined by the user's application.
There are currently over 20 different I/O boards available including analogue input, analogue output, digital I/O, counter/timer, quadrature encoder, serial I/O, CAN bus and ARINC 429 interfaces.
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