Cable-Tree Architectures

AMI Semiconductor, Inc. tworks are more flexible, easier to install, operate, maintain, and are simpler to reconfigure than traditional cable-tree architectures. An AS-i network carries data and power over two bus wires in a single distinctively yellow cable that connects a large number of slave units to a master programmable logic computer or simple industrial computer (m Controller). It can be used to create a network between almost any kind of sensor, actuator, master controller application, power control unit, accessory, and input/output (I/O) module used in a demanding industrial process control environment.

Using a mixed-signal design, EEPROM is integrated into the A²SI integrated circuit (IC), creating a high degree of flexibility and reprogrammability to meet the changing needs of modern production environments with little additional capital investment. The A²SI also contains an integrated watchdog that improves system integrity and reliability, and a feature that enables protection of factory- and product-dependent information (firmware).

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