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PCI, GPIO for Windows PC

Take advantage of the standardization of computer architectures to use the PCI bus in your PC to host your GPIO card. Take full advantage of your computer's slots with a TAMS 61622 GPIO Plug & Play interface card.

Plug & Play Flexibility

The GPIO interface plugs into the PC's PCI slot to give you control flexibility with GPIO.

The TAMS 61622 card operates in both 3.3V and 5V PCI.

The PCI standard defines an interface which can work in most PC’s that use 5 Volts, and in Hewlett Packard’s newest workstations which support only the 3.3 Volt standard. The ability of the TAMS interface card to work at either voltage level offers unprecedented re-configuration possibilities and flexibility.

In some applications I/O performance is not an issue, but with instrument control the computer should always be waiting for the instrument and not the other way around.

Now that PCI is supported, the TAMS 61622 as bus master can deliver through the PCI bus all the speed that is needed in instruments control.

The TAMS 61622 is configured with software rather than by setting switches on the GPIO hardware interface. This allows cards to be reconfigured without the bother of opening the computer.

GPIO is a parallel interface that is flexible and allows a variety of custom connections.

The TAMS 61622 provides for 16 bit data exchange and extra status and control lines, a choice of handshake methods, several data-latching options, and selectable data width and polarity.

Enhanced Mode

The TAMS 60622 is based on HP’s original definition of the 98622 GPIO standard. The TAMS card meets all the original specifications, and can operate with the original code, but in addition it added the full functionality of the HP E2074/5 enhanced mode to give bi-directional data and auxiliary status and control lines.

Features like bi-directional polling, configurable PCTL delay, etc. So you can use the TAMS card with any application that was developed for HP’s cards.

Software Compatibility

Whether you are using HP-VEE, BASIC or programming in ‘C’ with the SICL library your code will now run at full performance without modification. And thanks to HP’s software architecture once the TAMS driver is loaded, which is done once at installation, the TAMS card can be used in any application without requiring more computer overhead or any changes to the code.

For years TAMS has been working with HP and this is one more product to give you flexibility, save money and reduce your cost of testing. TAMS has built a reputation in supporting Hewlett Packard test systems. In addition to TAMS networking software TAMS offers a range of I/O products that compliment or improve Hewlett Packard’s product offerings.

GPIO Cable

The HP98622 and E2074/5 GPIO Interfaces use cable part number 5061-4209. This part number has been replaced by 5061-4210.  This cable is pin compatible with the TAMS 61622 card.