TIP116

The TIP116 IndustryPack® compatible module is primarily designed for motion control applications, but it is also applicable as general purpose counter.

The TIP116 offers four channel quadrature / general purpose counter. Each channel consists of a 32bit programmable counter, a 32bit preload register, a 32bit compare register and a 32bit output latch. The 32bit counter can be programmed for quadrature, up-/down or direction count. In quadrature count mode the counter is programmable for single, double and quadruple analysis of the encoder signals. Two special count modes are available, a cycling 'Divide-by-N' mode and a 'Single-Cycle' mode.

Additionally four control modes are available via the control input. The control input can be programmed to load, latch or reset the counter or it can be used as a gate for the counter clock.

The level of the three input signals per channel can be RS422 or TTL. The input signals pass a digital filter for noise suppression before they are fed into the counter.

The TIP116 also provides one RS422 general purpose I/O. It can be configured as a programmable 1, 2, 4 or 8 MHz clock output, as trigger input to simultaneous latch all channels or as general purpose input/output.

A 16bit down-counter with preload register acts as an interval timer and allows timing intervals of up to 65ms. It can be used as reference timer for closed loop applications.