The Curtiss Wright Controls Defense Solutions Power and Control Module (PCM) board is a rugged intelligent system monitor board that provides high level control and bridging to a system host via multiple avenues: Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), USB, RS-232 and CANbus. The PCM contains onboard software and logic to autonomously manage a computing enclosure or platform. It can also serve as the chassis management system in a PMBus based chassis management system controlling fan controller boards (FCBs) and intelligent power supplies. The PCM is designed to monitor and control various chassis levels elements, including power supplies, fans, displays, front panel controls and indicators. It can also interactively enable/disable chassis payload power systems, direct external/internal connected devices, and issue controlled system resets with the communication or switch interfaces. With the rich management feature set, combined with FCB’s, the PCM is modular and extensible to adapt to specific system requirements, and is suitable for military and commercial use.

Features:

• Rugged extended temperature power & control module (-40° C to 85° C) for air-cooled and conduction-cooled applications
• Programmable solutions for power supplies, thermal sensors, fans, humidity sensors and general purpose I/O
• User and administrative levels of configuration parameters
• User and administrative levels of password protection
• Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), USB, RS-232, I²C, with provisions for CANbus, redundant RS-232 and SPI
• SNMP (V2/3), DHCP, NTP, Telnet and PMBus protocols
• Wide operating range, -40 º C - +85 º C
• Wide input voltage range, 10VDC - 36VDC per MIL-STD-704E, MIL-STD-1275D; input voltage not isolated from logic ground
• Management of up to 4 Curtiss Wright Controls Defense Solutions fan controller boards
• Designed to meet MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-461F and MIL-STD-704E when incorporated into a chassis enclosure which meets these requirements
• Battleshort override
• External I/O over current protection
• The PCM can manage up to:
  • 16 power supplies
  • 16 independent voltages
  • 16 temperature sensors
  • 16 fans
  • 1 humidity sensor
  • 16 general purpose inputs
  • 16 reset controls
  • 8 general purpose outputs
  • 3 PWM outputs
  • 1 real time clock
  • 20 status indicators
  • 4 control switches