SBC BL4S200 Series

The BL4S200 series of single-board computers deliver the features and wireless connectivity to support networking for industrial control applications. In addition to the Ethernet and Fast Ethernet versions, the BL4S200 offers a choice of Wi-Fi and ZigBee enabled wireless networking options. The BL4S200 provides reliable hardware that has been certified by the FCC and other international agencies.

Features

• Uses Rabbit® 4000 and Rabbit 5000 Microprocessors
• Choice of Wi-Fi, ZigBee enabled, or Ethernet connectivity
• Friction lock connectors
• RabbitNet Compatible
• 40 digital I/O
• Up to 5 serial ports
• Battery-backed real-time clock
• Watchdog supervisor
• 8 analog input channels and 2 analog output channels

Design Advantages

• Deploy known-good hardware for Wi-Fi connectivity
• Develop an intelligent ZigBee enabled device in a mesh network
• Use Dynamic C integrated development environment to minimize time and risk in your embedded design
• Advanced input capabilities including event counting, event capture, and quadrature decoders to ease development for robust industrial applications
• Use RabbitNet protocol to connect expansion devices

The Rabbit RIO® Advantage

The BL4S200 series uses our Rabbit RIO chip to add a powerful I/O subsystem. The on-board Rabbit RIO devices add software configurable counter/timer blocks that can perform a variety of useful I/O capability, including event capture/counting, quadrature decoding, PWM and PPM generation, and edge or level based interrupts. This subsystem capability delivered by the Rabbit RIO device frees the microprocessor for control, data processing and communications tasks. Each BL4S200 board has 24 counter/timer blocks available in the I/O subsystem.

Applications

• Wireless industrial control
• Vision systems
• Automatic meter reading
• Encrypted connectivity
• Data logging

Why SBCs are important

Many customers take advantage of Rabbit single board computers to use reliable hardware and get to market quickly, with the option to design a custom product in the future. Other customers use Rabbit single board computers in order to leverage our easy-to-use technology and off-load a portion of the design, allowing design teams to focus on where they can truly add value to the market.

Development and Evaluation Tools

The BL4S200 Tool Kit contains the essential hardware to develop an embedded application on a BL4S200 single-board computer and debug right on the target hardware.

The tool kit includes:

• Dynamic C CD-ROM, with complete product documentation on disk
• Printed getting started manual and Rabbit 4000/5000 Posters
• Demonstration Board with pushbutton switches and LED’s to demonstrate the I/O and TCP/IP capabilities of the BL4S200
• USB programming cable, used to connect the BLS4200 to your PC USB port
• Universal AC adapter, 12 V DC, 1 A (includes Canada/Japan/U.S., Australia/N.Z., U.K., and European style plugs)

Develop and debug programs using our industry-proven Dynamic C® integrated development environment (version 10.42 or later). Dynamic C includes the popular µC/OS-II real-time operating system, point-to-point protocol (PPP), FAT file system, RabbitWeb, and other select libraries. Connect the BL4S200 board to the PC using a USB cable and then debug using break points, watch expressions and other features oriented toward real-time embedded systems programming. An extensive library of drivers and sample programs is provided, including a royalty-free TCP/IP stack for network and Internet communications. Full source code is provided for most library routines.