Tulip I/O Gateway Technical Specifications

Tulip I/O Gateway Technical Specifications

Here are all the technical details of the Tulip I/O Gateway.

Voltage supply, Current Consumption, and Conditioning

• Nominal supply: 24V (Vin_min: 12V Vin_max: 30V)
• Nominal supply current: 250mA (depends on number of USB devices connected)
• Nominal power consumption: 6W
• Undervoltage Lockout: 11.5V
• Overvoltage Lockout: 30.5V

Features

• Reverse polarity protection
• Overcurrent protection
• Miswire and reverse current protection
• Surge protection

Usage

• Use either a Tulip provided Factory Kit power supply or a regulated 24V input

Grounding and Earth Connections

• Chassis (including the DIN mount) and 24V Return are internally connected
• Optionally, pin 2 of the supplied 3-terminal power connector can be referenced to earth
• Input banks A and B on the Gateway feature an additional grounding pin reference to the 24V return for convenience

Recommendations

• In production, DIN rail should be held at earth potential.
• Optionally, pin 2 of the supplied 3-terminal power connector can be referenced to earth.

User I/O

• Two user buttons A and B can be used for device resets
• Hold Buttons A and B for 5 seconds to perform a factory reset
• Hold Button A for 5 seconds to enable the Tulip Access Point
• Hold Button B for 5 seconds after a plug cycle to auto-enable Tulip remote support
• One reset button (resets CPU)
• Heartbeat/Alert LED for device diagnostics

Temperature Range (Operating / Storage)

• 0 - 75 ℃

Humidity

• 5% - 80% rel hum. non-condensing

Processor

• TI Sitara ARM Cortex (AM3358)
• 512M DDR3 Memory
• 4GB eMMC storage

OS/Software

• Tulip OS (Yocto-Linux based)
• Nominal I/O Gateway to Factory Bandwidth: 10Hz
• Nominal I/O Gateway Bandwidth: 240Hz
• Tulip-managed OTA Updates (Requires port 9000 to be open to traffic)
• Contact Tulip to discuss integration of additional Kernel drivers or run-time device drivers.

Tulip OS Device Driver Support

• To see a list of supported devices in Tulip visit www.tulip.co

Digital Input

• 16 Digital PNP/NPN configurable inputs (Nominal configuration: PNP)
• Pins 1-8 in bank A
• Pins 9-16 in bank B
• Wide input range (1.8V - 36V)
• Digital input ground is connected to device 24V return
• IC: MCP23017

Digital Output

• 8 500mA 24V output drivers
• Individual channel over-temperature and over-current protection
• Drives relays and other inductive loads safely
• IC: VN808

Analog to Digital

• 4 Linearly isolated 0-10V inputs (Vadc-in_min = 0V, Vadc-in_max = 24V)
• 10-bit effective resolution
• Bandwidth (nominal): 240Hz
• IC: ADS1015
• Contact Tulip to discuss 4-20mA ADC input or differential ADC configurations.

RS-232 Port

• 1 RS-232 port using RX and TX lines
• IC: ADM3251
• Support for additional physical interfaces (RS-485, RS-422) is possible; contact Tulip

Ethernet

• Wired 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Port

I/O Recommendations

• In production environments requiring sensor/interface isolation, use a relay or other form of isolation to isolate the sensor and the input stage. Consult Tulip for additional information.

USB

• 6 USB 2.0 (High speed 480 Mbit/s) ports
• 500mA current sourcing per port

Mechanical

• 220mm x 160mm x 51mm (8.6 in x 6.5 in x 2 in)
• Weight: 2.2Kg (4.9 lbs)
• Aluminum (Anodized)
• Mounting: User serviceable 35mm DIN mount (can be mounted vertically or horizontally)