C2C-Link Interconnections
The C2C-Link is a hardware communication medium allowing a single C2C-Link master device to reliably share trigger events with multiple C2C-Link slave devices.
In area-scan applications, the C2C-Link Interconnect:
| □ | allows to share up to 2 triggers: a CIC Cycle Trigger (mandatory) and oneI/O Toolbox event (optional). |
| □ | allows any C2C-Link device to indicate to the C2C-Link master device that it is not able to accept a trigger. |
In line-scan applications, the C2C-Link Interconnect allows to share up to 3 triggers: a CIC Cycle Trigger (mandatory) and two I/O Toolbox events (optional).
The C2C-Link is scalable: it may interconnect devices belonging to the same Coaxlink card, or to different cards in the same PC or to different cards in different PCs.
A C2C-Link interconnection may combine up to three interconnection levels:
| ● | The IntraCard Level interconnects 2 or more C2C-Link devices belonging to the same card using FPGA internal resources. |
| ● | The IntraPC Level interconnects C2C-Link devices across two or more cards of the same PC. It requires one accessory cable such as the
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| ● | The InterPC Level interconnects C2C-Link devices across two or more PCs. It requires one |
C2C-Link configuration example using InterPC, IntraPC and IntraCard levels