Converter board common gateware

This webpage contains documentation (and links thereto) for gateware common to pulse converter and repeater systems.

Features:

• Configurable pulse generator (fixed-width or pass-through).
• Selectable pulse width. Short or Long values defined via generics.
• Burst mode operation (can be disabled) where support for a repetition frequency varies over time. See description of conv-ttl-blo gateware v4.0
• I2C slave according to protocol defined together with ELMA
• Converter board registers for status readout and select control function
• 1-wire thermometer information (unique chip ID and temperature register) available directly from 3 memory registers
• Pulse LED drive
• Bicolor LED drive

Documentation

• Converter board common gateware specification
• Board IDs

Example projects

• CONV-TTL-RS485 gateware
• CONV-TTL-BLO gateware, starting from gateware v3.0

Theodor-Adrian Stana, Denia Bouhired, April 3th, 2017