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Coming soon - MonCon485

Expected to be available from February 2010

A robust and flexible monitoring and control system using the industry standard RS485 serial interface and implementing our own simple communications protocol or ModBus RTU or ModBus ASCII. Modules are a standard size and can either be plugged into a back plane or can be interconnected using ribbon cable. The following boards are nearing completion -

• Backplanes: 4, 6, 8 and 10 position.

• Basic ADC/DAC board: 12 channel 12 bit ADC and 4 channel 12 bit DAC.

• Relay board: 8 SPST relays

• Microstepping stepper controller/driver board

• 32 channel digital I/O board: 24 channels can directly drive LEDs

• Peripheral board: 2x USB host (for memory stick, printer, CDC etc) 16 bit parallel I/O, 8 bit full parallel display I/O for LED and LCD display modules, 2x PS/2 (for keyboard, mouse etc).

• Interface board: Top end PIC18 + USB slave for connection to a PC + Ethernet interface. Ethernet stack firmware included for implementing web server, FTP, etc. Battery backed RTC. Also 32M flash, 128K SPI EEPROM and 64K SPI RAM.

• Power supply board: Power system from a single mains adapter, provides 5V logic supply and additional supplies for analogue boards.

Contact moncon485@compactcontrol.co.uk for more details.

Coming soon - USB-CANBus dongle

Expected to be available from February 2010.

A small (63x25x13mm) USB dongle that implements a fully electrically isolated CANBus interface capable of operating at 1M baud (1M NBR) with a simple text based command protocol. Ideal for any CANBus application especially automotive applications.

Contact usbcan@compactcontrol.co.uk for more details.

Coming soon - USB-RS485 dongle

Expected to be available from February 2010.

A small (63x25x13mm) USB to RS485 adapter. The USB and RS485 are fully electrically isolated and the dongle is supplied with drivers that enable it to be seen as a standard serial port.

Contact usbrs485@compactcontrol.co.uk for more details.

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New

Software

All our downloads are free. Please try them and let us know what you think.

New 

Bootloader version for P0701 USB PIC

Microcontroller Module

Due to popular demand our P0701 USB PIC Microcontroller Module now has a new bootloader version and is now compatible with compilers from SourceBoost technologies. We also have a new programmers toolkit that includes support for both the Microchip C18 compiler and the SourceBoost BoostC compiler, we will soon be supporting the BoostBasic compiler from SourceBoost technologies. Our programmers toolkit has also been improved with new libraries providing additional communications functions to support a range of data types including strings.

New

Stepper Controller Firmware version 3.0 for 

P0701 USB PIC Microcontroller Module

A new version of the Stepper driver firmware has been written for the P0701 USB PIC Microcontroller Module. The new firmware uses a much larger stepping rate table to provide much smoother acceleration and deceleration, much better and more accurate speed control. There is no longer a need to calculate the ramp-down point for starting deceleration, the new firmware does this automatically, there are also configuration options for motor direction, find home direction, find home sensor polarity and limit switch operation. A much improved PC based demo program running under windows 98/2000/XP is also included. The download also includes all source code for the firmware and the demo program. Visit our Downloads-Support Software page to see more information on this.

USB PIC download utility

The USB PIC download utility is a PC based program for downloading your applications to a P0701 USB PIC module or to any module in a MonCon system. The utility also includes basic communications functions allowing you to send commands and data to the modules and receive replies and data back from the modules. The utility also includes logging to a log file of both sent and received messages for debugging etc. Visit our Downloads-Support Software page for more information.

Data logger

This is all you require to use the P0701 USB PIC Microcontroller Module as a multi-channel analogue data logger. An application program for the P0701 and a PC based program combine to provide a fully functional data logger capable of logging from 1 to 11 channels at rates from 0.1 to 25.5 seconds. Data is displayed on a chart as it is read and also logged in a csv file. The log data can easily be imported into spreadsheets, charting and analysis software. Visit our Downloads-Support Software page to download a copy.

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