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Customer Spotlight - Custom Serial Isolation Board

From Sealevel Systems, Inc.
 

 
A customer designing a new hazardous area computer system required all external connections to the host to be isolated in order to meet certification requirements. The single board computer used in the system provided the USB, RS-232, and RS-422 functionality needed by the customer, but these ports were not isolated. In a very short time frame, Sealevel designed a custom board that isolated these signals and routed them to the connectors mounted in the system enclosure via ribbon cables. A custom PCB was developed that inputs the non-isolated signals via header connectors. The signals pass through the appropriate isolation circuits on the board to output header connectors. The board is designed to fit mechanically into the space available in the customer's enclosure, and the isolated signals are brought out to USB and DB9 connectors on the enclosure's I/O panel via ribbon cables.
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