Our epc10x family are general purpose fully CMOS integrated circuits for multi beam light curtain applications with integrated communication interface.
epc 101 works as light pulse transmitter while epc100 is designed as receiver/transceiver. Just add illumination LED's and photo diodes and complete your industrial light curtain with up to 1024 nodes.
epc100 Light Pulse Receiver / Bus Transciever Features
- Light pulse receiver, amplifier, signal conditioning and signal processing
- Only an external photodiode necessary
- High sensitivity input for photodiode current signals: typ. 60nA
- Scan periods down to 30us
- Programmable receiver parameter settings for sensitivity, pulse detection, …
- SPI interface up to 10Mbit/s for communication with micro-controllers
epc101 Light Pulse Transmitter Features
- Universal light pulse transmitter and LED controller with pulse generator
- Only external LED driver and LED necessary
- Scan periods down to 30us
- Programmable transmitter parameter settings for pulse length, LED
epc10x Family Features
- 2 wire power-line communication interface
- Up to 1024 nodes, 2Mbit/s
- Individually addressable
- Non-volatile memory for application specific parametrization / programming
- Standby mode low power consumption
