Siemens Industrial Pcs - Siemens SINUMERIK 840Di System Overview

3 Hardware
3.1

SIEMENS industrial PCs

The SINUMERIK 840Di consists of a compact
SIEMENS industrial PC with a plug-in board (MCI
Board) as an interface board for the Motion Control
and PLC tasks, which has been developed by
Siemens.
Features
The current PC variant named PCU 50 is offered
in 2 different performance classes and provides
the following features:
•
Mobile Intel Pentium-II processor
at 333 MHz or
Mobile Intel Pentium-III processor
at 500MHz
•
Hard disk (min. 4.8 GB) with dampened suspen-
sion suitable for use in industry
•
128 MB SDRAM (max. 256 MB)
•
1 expansion slot with PCI interface (occupied by
the MCI board)
•
1 shared ISA/PCI expansion slot (max. 175 mm
long)
occupied by the MCI Board Extension option slot variant
-
free, with MCI Board Extension option external variant
-
•
Robust design (continuous operation, high noise immunity)
•
Space-saving installation thanks to compact dimensions (LxWxH):
296x267x100 mm
•
Easy-to-service design
•
Easy to install by means of four screws on the rear side of the operator panel
front
•
Mounting location and position to a large degree variable
•
Comprehensive fire protection (to EN60950)
•
Steel sheet built-in housing with vacuum ventilation (suck-off type)
Interfaces
The following interfaces are provided:
•
Parallel interface LPT1
•
Serial interfaces 1 x V.24, 1 x V.24/TTY
•
PS/2 keyboard interface
•
PS/2 mouse interface
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Fig 3-1 PC PCU 50
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SINUMERIK 840Di System Overview (SYI) - 02.2001 Edition
02.2001