This USB based interfaced board has been
designed to connect directly (in piggy-back fashion) to
the PC1 Precision Peltier Controller board. The
interface is based around an FTDI supplied DLP2232M dual
UART interface module that is configured to run a simple
serial peripheral interface (SPI) bus. Since the FTDI
module is a dual channel UART, only one of which is
utilised by the SPI interface, connections to the other
are provided by a series of on board solder pads. This
allows the interface to be used to control the PC1 (or
in alternative direct control applications) while
providing an additional control interface.
Control software is provided as a
standalone LabView executable (the G-code is also
available for system integrators to use within more
complex applications) which can be used to address one
or multiple USB interface/PC1 controller boards.
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