Power for your next design…
The Persistor CF2 from Persistor Instruments is ready to power your remote or portable custom instrumentation. No matter what industry you're in, if you need to acquire and process data in a small, low power, embedded application, CF2 power will get the job done faster, more reliably, and at far lower cost.
Applications Power…
The CF2 and its predecessor, the CF1, successfully perform key roles in such diverse applications as wearable performance athletic monitoring and feedback systems, outdoor long-term field monitoring of power quality, vibration logging and analysis for manufacturing quality control, bridge fatigue prediction studies, and even attempts to protect dolphins and whales by studying the breakaway links in fishnets.
What's been done just hints at the true potential. The CF2's power makes it the ideal choice as the brain and backbone for a wide variety of data acquisition and control applications such as…
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Electromagnetic Field Studies |
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Seismic Detectors/Recorders | ||||
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Automotive Safety Testing | ||||
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Wave/Tide/Current Loggers | ||||
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GPS Navigation Recorders | ||||
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Surveying and Mapping | ||||
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Transportation Loggers | ||||
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Robotics Controllers | ||||
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Intelligent Weaponry | ||||
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Surveillance Systems | ||||
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Bioscience Monitors | ||||
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Atmospheric Loggers | ||||
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Aerospace Recorders |
CPU Power…
With performance on par with Motorola's 68020 or Intel's 80386, the CF2 has more than enough processing power to tackle your most demanding application. Furthermore, you can make design trades between processor power and battery power as you see fit. The CF2 can be adapted to nearly any situation from short run experiments to long-term deeply embedded instrumentation.
Battery Power…
Like many designers these days, you are under pressure to keep your designs small, light and inexpensive, and batteries are a significant factor in all these concerns. The CF2 is up for these challenges offering power modes so low that at one extreme, it can sleep for up to four years running from one lithium coin cell while periodically waking to handle scheduled or unexpected events. The CF2 gives you unprecedented control over power consumption, offering not only dedicated low power modes, but run-time system clock adjustment for on-the-fly power conservation.
Development Power…
With today's time-to-market pressures, you don't need a whiz-bang piece of new hardware offering little or no development support. One of the first things you'll notice when you hold the CF2 is that its I/O and bus connections are all standard size and spacing. This simplifies your early prototypes and virtually guarantees glitch-free manufacturability if you move to volume production.
Less obvious, but even more valuable is the comprehensive suite of modern and powerful software development tools available for the CF2 at amazingly low cost. First, the built-in PicoDOS® operating system makes programming the CF2 much more like writing programs for a desktop computer. Your programmers also get access to a pre-written library of fully documented functions and examples. Finally, the CF2 takes advantage of the amazing Metrowerks CodeWarrior Development to offer inexpensive yet professional Windows95/98/NT based C cross development. You will also enjoy a growing family of mating development and application boards providing ready to run A/D, UART, USB, and additional memory expansion options.
Storage Power…
If number crunching, power conserving, and rapid development features aren't enough, the CF2 goes one step further offering storage capacities in excess of 1GB on board with CompactFlash technology. Known best as "film" for digital cameras, CompactFlash is the perfect storage media for embedded instrumentation. With PicoDOS, the CF2's resident DOS act-alike, file and disk operations look just like their desktop counterparts. Data can be read from CompactFlash for as little as $15 with a PC Card slot adapter or for $49 with a USB card reader.
Affordable Power… Qty1 - $395
An embedded core can feature everything: performance, size, power and ease-of-use, but if it doesn't fit into your price models, these do you no good. The standard CF2 is affordable for everything from one-of-a-kinds to full production, and we can license all or part of the design if your instrument really takes off.
Unlimited Power…
Persistor Instruments Inc. is committed to making the CF2 the best choice for your next project. With our line of RecipeCards™, we provide common application prototypes with board space for your own additions. Persistor CF2 Development Kits immediately convey both the hardware and the software sides of basic data logging and controlling in an "open source" framework to further spur your application creativity. In short, the road ahead from the CF2 is limitless and we challenge you to find out where you can go.
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PERCF21M Single Board Computer | ||||||||
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Motorola 68332 based Single Board Computer | ||||||||
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16MHz operation allows 2.5MIPS | ||||||||
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3.3 Volt operating voltage | ||||||||
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Built in power regulator accepts 3.6 to 20 volt input | ||||||||
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Low Current Capability:
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Built in header accepts any size CompactFlash memory cards | ||||||||
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1MB Flash | ||||||||
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1MB SRAM | ||||||||
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8KB ‘Virtual’ EEPROM | ||||||||
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Real Time Clock allows wake from Suspend Mode | ||||||||
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RS232 Port implemented with variable baud rate | ||||||||
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15 TPU I/O pins offer DIO, FQM, NITC, OC, PTA, PWM, SIOP, UART | ||||||||
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Customizable PicoDOS operating system included | ||||||||
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API drivers for ATA, CS, TPU, PIT, QSPI, SCI included | ||||||||
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Code adjustable system clock for current drain optimization | ||||||||
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PicoDAQ and CommLogger demo programs included | ||||||||
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Accessories available for 16 bit A/D, USB interface, hardware UARTs | ||||||||
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-40C to +85C Full Industrial Temperature Range | ||||||||
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Attractive pricing for both OEMs or one-up experiments | ||||||||
