APMB2 - AEWA Print Manager Board
APMB2 is the second generation of Print Manager Boards from AEWA. It is the core hardware of the AEWA Printing System and can drive up to 8 printhead boards. It connects to the printhead boards via optical fiber cables which makes the data transfer immune to electromagnetic interference.
Features
- Different host interfaces:
- APMB2-GBE: APMB2 with 1-Gigabit Ethernet and 2Gb RAM.
- APMB2-USB: APMB2 with USB 3.0 and 4Gb or 8Gb RAM.
- High speed Operation:
- 1-Gigabit Ethernet: 110 MBytes/sec.
- USB 3.0: 400 MBytes/sec.
- Optical interface to printheads: 600 MBits/sec.
- Encoder: 80 MBits/sec.
- RS422 Interface: 10 MBits/sec.
- Can drive up to 8 printhead boards.
- Up to 500 meter distance from printhead boads through optical fiber cables.
- Easy daisy chaning. Up to 16 APMB2 boards van be connected together to drive more than 8 printhead boards.
- Supports rotary spiral, rotary step, flatbed and single pass band printing modes.
- High speed encoder signal multiplication and division logic which enables any printing resolution.
- Software programmable internal virtual encoder and print start signal.
- Full featured printhead control (drive voltage, temperature, waveform, grayscale, etc.).
- Firmware update over host interface.
- 12x optically isolated inputs
- 4x optically isolated outputs
- 8x Relays, 1A@24V
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Single 24V input voltage with galvanic isolation.
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Reverse polarity, over voltage, over current and surge current protection.
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SHA-1 Encryption for firmware copy protection.
