10-Channel Timer / Counter Card

Replaced by the PCL-836

THIS CARD IS OBSOLETE AND HAS BEEN
REPLACED BY THE PCL-836

Introduction
Applications
Features
Specifications
Ordering Information

Applications

• Event counting
• Industrial automation (flowmeter and wattmeter monitoring)
• Programmable frequency synthesis
• Frequency counter
• Pulse-width and period measurement
• Time-delay generation
• Frequency-shift keying
• F/V conversion and pulse accumulation

Features

• Periodic interrupt generation
• 10 independent 16-bit up/down counters
• Binary or BCD counting
• Programmable frequency output
• Complex duty-cycle output
• Two alarm comparators (on counters #1/#2 and #6/#7)
• Single-shot or continuous output
• Programmable count/gate source selection
• Programmable input and output polarity
• Programmable gate functions
• 16-bit TTL input and 16-bit TTL output ports
• Selectable interrupt input channel
• Up to 6.8 MHz input frequency
• Time-of-day option

Counter

• Description: Ten independent 16-bit counters
• Input level: TTL-compatible
• Output level: TTL-compatible
  Low: 0.4 V max @ 3.2 mA sink
  High: 2.4 V min @ 0.2 mA source
• Input frequency: 6.8 MHz max
• Input pulse width: >70 nsec
• Connector: Two 20-pin flat-cable connectors
• Time base: 1.00 MHz Frequency stability: +/-100 PPM

Digital I/O

• Channels: 16 TTL-compatible outputs (16 bits)
• Driving capacity:
  Sink 8.0 mA @ 0.5 V (low)
  Source 0.4 mA @ 2.4 V (high)

General

• Dimensions: 7" x 4.2" (179 mm x 107 mm)
• Power consumption: +5 V @ 600 mA typical

Ordering Information

PCL-830

10-channel Counter/Timer Card (20 pin)

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