RU2719427C1 - Sensor matching device with electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: computer equipment.

SUBSTANCE: technical result is achieved by a device for matching integrated circuits and electronic equipment, including: a control and data processing module; electronic module, which provides mounting of one or more types of housings/landing connectors of integrated circuits/sensors; electronic module, providing interface of control and data processing module with electronic equipment, wherein the data processing and control module board and the printed circuit board of the one or more electronic modules enable the data manipulation means and the discrete electronic components and/or the integrated circuits to implement the hardware and software configuration of the analogue, digital and feed circuits of the integrated circuits/sensors and/or connectors, interfaced with peripheral electronic equipment using integrated circuits/sensors as its functional part, or uses output data of integrated circuits/sensors for its operation, and conjugation of analogue, digital and supply circuits to power supply and data processing units of control and data processing module.

EFFECT: technical result consists in improvement of speed of matching of integrated circuit/sensor with measuring system.

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Description

The device relates to systems for matching integrated circuits with electronic equipment that uses integrated circuits as its functional part or uses the output of integrated circuits for its operation.

An example of a field that demonstrates the relevance of a patented device of a problem is the design of measuring instruments and complexes, which are based on various electronic sensors. Integrated circuits are part of electronic sensors as discrete electronic components, or the entire sensor is made in the housing of the integrated circuit. The development of measuring instruments and systems can take from several months to several years, while updating the model range of integrated circuits / sensors occurs much more often. Replacing the model of the integrated circuit / sensor in the measuring complex leads to a change in the electrical and wiring diagram associated with the sensor, as well as updating the technical documentation of the entire device using the integrated circuit / sensor as its functional part or using the output of the integrated circuit / sensor for its functioning . Using a patentable device capable of real-time coordination of an integrated circuit / sensor with a measuring complex will be the solution to this problem.

A known version of the industrial controller (RF patent on PM No. 149610, publ. 2014.02.18.), In which the expansion of its functionality when working with peripheral devices is achieved by introducing into the device circuit of the industrial controller a thermometer, a barometer and an accelerometer in the form of separate additional microcircuits, and RS-485 interfaces, which are used for remote connection of sensors and actuators, as well as supplying the circuit with two connectors, forming two internal intermodule buses, which are used to connect mods leu expansion input-output signals of managed objects, wherein the contacts of each of the two jacks form a separate internal inter-module bus, which comprises a circuit I2C interface, an interrupt request and the supply and expansion modules implemented using LSI extensions I2C interface. Ethernet and / or CAN interfaces are used to connect to the host computer.

In the given version of the industrial controller, no means are provided that provide hardware-software configuration of analog, digital and power circuits, connecting control and data processing tools with control devices / expansion modules / actuators / sensors. This drawback limits the use of devices with peripheral devices whose interfaces are different from RS-485, I2C, Ethernet, CAN.

As a prototype, the system and method for providing a dynamic modular data processing device (RF patent for the invention No. 2386163: publ. 2003.10.22) was selected which has a printed circuit board with a processor, which is a component of a three-board configuration of an electrical circuit board, removably placed inside non-peripheral housing. This device has a replaceable connection panel connected to a non-peripheral case, which provides increased flexibility and support for peripheral devices and applications. Moreover, the architecture of the modular data processing device is designed to provide operational flexibility through selective communication with one or more dynamic modular data processing devices in a system where all dynamic modular data processing devices are interconnected at the system bus level.

In the prototype, the possibility of interfacing with peripheral devices is limited by the configuration of a specific model of the replaceable connecting panel and is not achievable by hardware-software configuration of inter-module circuits and their connection to tunable analog, digital and power supply units of the control and data processing module. The design of the device also does not provide tools that provide hardware-software control of analog, digital and power circuits between the control and data processing module and the replaceable connecting panel.

The technical result relates to the ability of a patented device to perform hardware and software configuration of analog, digital and power circuits of integrated circuits and / or connectors for interfacing with electronic equipment that uses integrated circuits as its functional part or uses the output of integrated circuits for its operation, and interfacing of analog, digital and power circuits to power supply and data processing units of the control and data processing module, which increases bkost IC matching process with the peripheral in relation to them electronic equipment. This ability is achieved due to the fact that the board of the control and data processing module includes programmable power supplies and programmable analogue and digital data processing units connected via a relay system with quick-disconnect connections to boards - expansion modules, on which discrete electronic components and / or integrated circuits, it is possible to perform hardware configuration of the electrical circuits of the patented device with peripheral with respect to the patent CB device integrated circuits and / or connectors designed to mate with electronic equipment employing integrated circuits as its functional part or output integrated circuits for its operation.

The patented system for matching integrated circuits / sensors with electronic equipment consists of three modules: a control and data processing module board containing a power supply, a data processing unit, data manipulation means; boards of electronic module No. 1 for matching the patented device with integrated circuits / electronic sensors; circuit board of electronic module No. 2 for matching the patented device with electronic equipment peripheral to the patented device, which uses the integrated circuit / electronic sensor as its functional part or the output of the integrated circuit / electronic sensor for its operation.

The power supply unit of the control and data processing module includes one or more stabilized voltage sources intended for powering the patented device, as well as one or more tunable stabilized voltage sources that provide power to various peripheral devices connected to the control and data processing module via electronic module 1 board or electronic module board number 2.

The data processing unit of the control and data processing module includes one or more electronic control means capable, by changing the executable microprogram, of receiving, recording, processing and transmitting data coming from electronic modules No. 1 and No. 2 via various protocols and digital data exchange interfaces. To record executable firmware and / or to record other data, for example, primary data from a sensor, if the microcircuit is an electronic sensor, one or more memory microcircuits (memory) are installed on the control and data processing module. To increase flexibility in working with peripheral devices, the signals of which are of an analog nature with one or more electronic control means, ADCs and DACs are connected. To increase flexibility in working with peripheral devices whose signals are transmitted via interfaces, the implementation of which is impossible by software on one or more electronic control devices, interface converters are connected to one or more electronic control tools. To increase flexibility in working with peripheral devices, the digital signals of which have logical voltage levels different from the logical voltage levels of electronic controls with one or more electronic controls, a multi-channel tunable buffer for converting logical voltage levels is connected.

The control and data processing module is interfaced with electronic modules No. 1 and / or No. 2 using quick disconnect connections. The data manipulation tool is designed to correctly interface the processor module with electronic modules No. 1 and / or No. 2. Correct pairing of the processor module with electronic modules No. 1 and / or No. 2 means such pairing that ensures coordination of the supply and signal electrical circuits of the control and data processing module with electronic modules No. 1 and / or No. 2, as a result of which the required functioning is realized hardware and software components of the patented device in conjunction with peripheral to the patented device integrated circuits and / or connectors designed to interface electronic equipment utilizing for its functioning integrated circuits as its functional part or output integrated circuits data. The data manipulation tool includes: mechanical / electronic / electromechanical / electro-optical / electromagnetic relays, switches, multiplexers, demultiplexers.

Electronic module No. 1 is a printed circuit board designed to accommodate integrated circuits / sensors together with the necessary external auxiliary electrical circuits and interfacing integrated circuits / sensors together with the necessary external auxiliary electric circuits to the control and data processing module. Electronic module No. 1 contains contact pads for mounting chips / sensors, contact pads for mounting panels / connectors / sockets / other input / output devices, including electronic ones, for correct pairing of chips / sensors via wired, fiber optic or wireless channels, additional contact pads for mounting discrete electronic components and / or integrated circuits that implement hardware configuration of analog, digital and power supply circuits s circuits and input / output devices, quick connections for correct pairing electronic module №1 data processing and control module.

Electronic module No. 2 is a printed circuit board designed to interface electronic equipment that uses integrated circuits / sensors as its functional part or uses the output from integrated circuits / sensors for its operation, with a control and data processing module. Electronic module No. 2 contains contact pads intended for mounting panels / connectors / sockets / other input / output devices including electronic ones, for correct pairing with electronic equipment via a wired, fiber optic or wireless channel, additional contact pads for mounting discrete electronic components and / or integrated circuits that implement hardware configuration of analog, digital and supply circuits of integrated circuits and input / output devices, quick disconnect nye compounds providing correctly pairing electronic module №2 data processing and control module.

A functional diagram of a patented device is shown in FIG. 1. The principle of operation of the patented device discloses an example of interfacing an integrated circuit with electronic equipment via a wired digital interface.

Electronic equipment is interfaced with the patented device by means of a connector, the counterpart of which is mounted on one of the many pads for mounting panels / sockets (21) of electronic module No. 2 (2). An integrated circuit that needs to be coordinated with electronic equipment is mounted on one of the many pads for mounting integrated circuits (11) of electronic module No. 1 (1). For the installation of integrated circuits made in non-standardized or rarely found cases, the patented device provides for the possibility of their installation by means of adapter panels / sockets mounted on one of the many pads for mounting panels / sockets (14).

The conductive drawing of the electronic module No. 1 (1) electrically connects the terminals of the integrated circuit to the pads for configuring the circuits (12) and to the data manipulation tool (31) via quick-disconnect connections (13, 32) connecting the electronic module No. 1 to the control and processing module data (3). The conductive drawing of the electronic module No. 2 electrically connects the terminals of the connector of the electronic equipment to the contact pads (22) and the data manipulation means (31) through quick disconnect connections (23, 33) connecting the electronic module No. 2 to the control and data processing module. The data manipulation tool is configured by an electronic control tool (39) located in the data processing unit (30), and in accordance with a predefined instruction stored in the memory of the memory device (37), it traces the chains received from quick-connect connections (32, 33) to a custom electronic DAC / ADC control tool (34), to specific interface converter chips (35), to a logical level conversion buffer tunable by an electronic control tool (36), to a custom electronic electronic means of control of the power supply (38), or sets the high-impedance state at its output. Contact pads (12, 22) provide the ability to configure the circuits supplied to quick disconnect connections (32, 33) by installing discrete electronic components, expanding the capabilities of the data manipulation system and ensuring the implementation of the technical result of the patented device.

Thus, the procedure for matching the integrated circuit with electronic equipment via a digital wire interface includes:

- installation of the integrated circuit on the electronic module No. 1;

- hardware configuration of auxiliary electric circuits of the integrated circuit by mounting electronic components on electronic module No. 1;

- software configuration of the data manipulation system, ensuring the correct pairing of the control and data processing module with electronic modules No. 1 and No. 2;

- mounting on the electronic module No. 2 of the counterpart to the connector for interfacing the patented device with electronic equipment;

- hardware configuration of auxiliary electrical circuits of the connector that interconnects electronic equipment with the patented device, by mounting electronic components on electronic module No. 2.

The example of use described above fully illustrates the essence of the proposed invention, but does not limit the scope of the patented device or any part thereof.

The modular architecture of the patented device and design features that provide hardware-software configuration of power and signal circuits and their interface with power supply and data processing units allow you to quickly change the electrical and wiring diagram associated with an integrated circuit / sensor and / or electronic equipment using an integrated circuit / electronic sensor as its functional part or using the integrated circuit / electronic sensor output for its functioning . A patented device for matching sensors with electronic equipment reduces the design process for devices and systems that use integrated circuits / sensors as their functional part or use the output from integrated circuits / sensors for their operation, allowing them to quickly master their serial production and commissioning. The advantages of the device become apparent when it is necessary to quickly replace damaged integrated circuits / sensors or / and obsolete models of integrated circuits / electronic sensors in complex measuring complexes.

An example implementation, showing the appearance of the patented device, not limiting the patented device or any part thereof, is shown in FIG. 2a, FIG. 2b, FIG. 2c.

The architecture of the patented device does not limit its use as a system for matching integrated circuits with electronic equipment, which is built into finished electronic systems. The patented device can also be used as a standalone device:

- a system for recording and processing primary data and / or a testing system for integrated circuits, using a control and data processing module with electronic module No. 1;

- a data processing device in various electronic measuring complexes, using a control and data processing module with electronic module No. 2.

Claims (7)

1. A device for matching integrated circuits and electronic equipment, which includes integrated circuits / sensors as its functional part or uses the output of integrated circuits / sensors for its operation, having a modular architecture that includes at least one data management and processing module including a power supply unit, data manipulation means, a data processing unit on which at least one electronic control means is located, at least one is stored its device, at least one buffer for converting logical voltage levels, at least one microcircuit - an interface converter, at least one DAC and ADC, as well as at least one electronic module that interfaces with the control and data processing module via a quick disconnect connection, which is a printed circuit board with a conductive pattern that provides the installation of one or more types of housings / landing connectors of integrated circuits / sensors and at least one electronic module that mates with the module control and processing of data through a quick coupler, which provides the connection of the control and data processing module with electronic equipment, characterized in that the control and processing module circuit board and the printed circuit board of one or more electronic modules allow through data manipulation means and discrete electronic components and / or integral circuits carry out hardware and software configuration of analog, digital and supply circuits of integrated circuits / sensors and / or connectors, interfacing with peripheral electronic equipment that uses integrated circuits / sensors as its functional part, or uses the output of integrated circuits / sensors for its operation, and interfacing analog, digital and power circuits to power and data processing units of the control and data processing module. 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that in the control and data processing module the electronic control means is one or more microcontrollers, and / or one or more programmable logic integrated circuits (FPGAs), and / or one or more processors. 3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the integrated circuit is an electronic sensor and / or a landing connector for switching the terminals of the electronic sensor. 4. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that it includes a system of mechanical / electronic / electromechanical / electro-optical / electromagnetic relays as part of the control and data processing module and / or one or more electronic modules. 5. The device according to claim 4, characterized in that it includes one or more interface converter chips, tunable logic level conversion buffers, a multi-channel tunable stabilized voltage source, ADC, as part of a control and data processing module and / or one or more electronic modules DACs, the operation of which is configured by executing instructions by an electronic means of control of a control and data processing module. 6. The device according to claim 5, characterized in that it includes one or more sensors in the control and data processing module or at least in one electronic module, the data from which are used in the mathematical algorithms of the device with one or more electronic management tool of the control module and data processing. 7. The device according to claim 6, characterized in that it includes a connector for outputting visual / audio information into the control and data processing module or at least into one electronic module.

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