Application Information

The TPMC363 is a conduction cooled single-width 32 bit

PMC with four high speed serial data communication

channels.

The TPMC363 is the successor of the discontinued

TPMC362, providing similar functionality and full connector

and pin-out compatibility.

The serial communication controller is implemented in

FPGA logic, along with the bus master capable PCI

interface, guaranteeing long term availability and having the

option to implement additional functions in the future.

Each channel provides dedicated receive and transmit

FIFOs for high data throughput.

Data transfer on the PCI bus is handled via TPMC363

initiated DMA cycles with minimum host/CPU intervention.

Several serial communication protocols are supported by

each channel, such as asynchronous, isochronous,

synchronous and HDLC mode.

A 14.7456 MHz oscillator provides standard asynchronous

baud rates. An additional 24 MHz oscillator is provided for

other baud rates. A 10 MHz oscillator is used for the

synchronous baud rate of 10 Mbit/s.

Each channel also provides various interrupt sources,

generated on INTA. The interrupt sources can be enabled

or disabled individually.

Multiprotocol transceivers are used for the line interface.

The physical interface is selectable by software, individually

for each channel as EIA-232, EIA-422, EIA-449, EIA-530,

EIA-530A, V.35, V.36 or X.21.

The following signals are provided by the TPMC363 for

each channel at the front and rear-I/O connectors:

Receive Data (RxD +/-), Transmit Data (TxD +/-), Receive

Clock (RxC +/-), Transmit Clock (TxC +/-), Ready-To-Send

(RTS +/-), Clear-To-Send (CTS +/-), Carrier-Detect (CD +/-

) and GND.

The TPMC363 provides rear panel I/O via P14.

Software Support (TDRV009-SW-xx) for different operating

systems is available.