Nanometrics RM-4, User Manual

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Page 4: ...r interface v 1 07 E 22 Feb 2000 Emil Farkas Updates for the TDMA feature F 05 Jul 2000 Nick Ackerley Update to Config Flash Size serial port loading order and baud rates G 18 Oct 2000 Robert Catalfamo Edit Spread Spectrum Radio Transceivers H 05 Jan 2001 Glenn Greig Update to data bundles configuration options in user interface I 02 Feb 2001 Jing Chen Updates to GUI Hardware Approval ____________...

Page 5: ... 31 Basic troubleshooting 31 Hardware technical description 31 6 Servicing 29 Environment 29 Files 17 Manual 17 5 RM 4 User Interface 16 RM 4 Timeserver Option 15 Selecting a Power Source 15 Calculating the Power Consumption of the RM 4 15 Setting Up the GPS Antenna 14 Using External State of Health Inputs 13 Configuring Serial Ports 13 Configuring the Ethernet Port 12 Using the User Interface App...

Page 6: ...1 Figure 4 Typical Internet Timeserver Setup 10 Figure 3 Typical Remote Site Setup 9 Figure 2 RM 4 Rear Panel 8 Figure 1 RM 4 Front Panel List of Tables 43 Table 14 Log Message Packet Format 42 Table 13 Access Control Configuration 42 Table 12 GPS Configuration 42 Table 11 Internet Configuration 41 Table 10 Serial Port Configuration 41 Table 9 Telemetry Packet Reader Configuration 41 Table 8 HRD M...

Page 7: ...clude evidence as it allows us to submit your problem to the most knowledgeable person for reply by e mail support nanometrics ca by fax To RM 4 support at fax 613 592 5929 by phone Please ask for RM 4 support at 613 592 6776 Nanometrics Inc 250 Herzberg Road Kanata Ontario Canada K2K 2A1 WARNING This is a Class A product In a domestic environment this product may cause radio interference in which...

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Page 9: ...ve purchased and lists certain settings and defaults which may vary between models and serial numbers Chapter 4 User Guide describes how to use the RM 4 in field experiments Chapter 5 Reference Manual presents the full capability of the RM 4 This includes detailed instructions for using supporting software Chapter 6 Servicing describes how to troubleshoot and maintain the RM 4 Appendices These lis...

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Page 11: ...6 Power Supply Cord for country specified by customer GPS Option An RM 4 with GPS is shipped with the following additional components 1 GPS Antenna and Mounting Bracket 2 GPS Cable 10m long 12V Input Option The standard power supply and power supply cord are replaced by 1 Battery Power Cable 5 pin DIN cable to terminal lugs 2m long Packaging Return Policy Save the original shipping box for the RM ...

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Page 13: ...requests from up to four NAQS acquisition processes located at different IP addresses State of Health Failed CRC checks missing sequence numbers overrun errors and frame errors are reported along with state of health SOH information including input voltage and temperature This allows engineers to troubleshoot distinguishing errors that occur in the serial communications links from errors that occu...

Page 14: ...me depends on the size of the smallest buffer on the HRD The central NAQS acquisition computer in the network will rerequest missing data as soon as power to the RM 4 is restored Packaging Enclosure The RM 4 is packaged in a steel and aluminum box measuring 7 25 wide by 9 5 long by 1 5 high The top cover and front and rear panels are computer beige the bottom is bare aluminum The front and rear pa...

Page 15: ...nections include Ethernet GPS Power and Serial Ports 1 to 8 as shown in the figure below Figure 2 RM 4 Rear Panel Connector Pinouts Cables should not normally need to be assembled by the user However the pinouts of all connectors are given in Appendix B The Ethernet and Serial Port connectors are standard RJ 45 type The pinouts have been chosen such that the LAN may be plugged in to any of the ser...

Page 16: ...s or satellite transceivers Up to seven streams of data can be multiplexed by a single RM 4 The figure below shows a typical setup with one HRD H R D RM 4 Configuration Connector 5V Power Supply G P S Antenna Assembly RM 4 Male Serial Adapter Sensor H R D Cable Sensor Cable G P S Cable LAN Cable 10 16V D C 110 220V A C Figure 3 Typical Remote Site Setup RM 4 Manual 10 4 User Guide ...

Page 17: ...dio the master is needed at the RM 4 site which receives the digitiser data In point to multipoint mode several radios slaves each associated with a digitiser can be multiplexed into one data stream and delivered to the RM 4 site containing the master radio In addition the spread spectrum radio transceivers can be configured as radio repeaters to increase the flexibility of the data acquisition ne...

Page 18: ...ble assembly typically consists of a cable with a female DB 9 data connector a DB 9 male to RJ 45 adapter and a standard LAN cable 5 If the RM 4 is to be used as an Internet timeserver connect the GPS antenna to the GPS cable and plug the cable into the coaxial GPS connector on the rear panel of the RM 4 Position the antenna in a location with an unobstructed view of the sky 6 Connect the power su...

Page 19: ...gitiser 10 C S 1 08 25 17 B 16 B where C number of channels being digitised S sample rate of digitiser B number of bundles per packet Note that the final terms are usually near unity so they can be neglected for a first approximation The factor of 1 08 represents a typical compression ratio for data from a sensor at a quiet site it is the average number of bytes needed to represent one sample Duri...

Page 20: ... 2 0 MW These inputs accept voltages in the range 20 V Overvoltage protection is provided however care should still be used to minimize transients on these lines To provide the best noise performance of the RM 4 analog circuits the return for the external SOH signals should be connected to chassis ground or left open if another DC path to ground already exists Setting up configuration parameters E...

Page 21: ...ula P 1 15 W 1 1 W GPS On time GPS Duty Cycle Period For example an RM 4 with GPS which has duty cycling disabled typically consumes 2 25 W If GPS duty cycling is enabled with a maximum on time of five minutes and a period of 30 minutes the average power consumption will be less than 1 3 W Selecting a Power Source The RM 4 can be powered from a number of different sources The type of power source ...

Page 22: ... the time via TCP IP When asked for the time the timeserver returns a TCP IP message with the current UTC time accurate to 1 second The RM 4 timeserver can obtain time from two sources GPS or connected HRDs When the time source is configured to HRD the RM 4 will listen to the connected HRD data streams Every 10 minutes an HRD outputs a timestamp message at the start of the second The RM 4 listens ...

Page 23: ...pporting files on an RM 4 a client can use the user interface to examine the file system on the RM 4 and then transfer the new version of a file to the RM 4 Usage and Options The RM 4 user interface consists of eight function buttons and three groups of tabbed pages for editing system configuration monitoring system operation and managing the RM 4 file system The buttons are for the following func...

Page 24: ... With tech status a client can edit both tech and user editable items in the configuration pages and access all the system operation pages A tech level client can examine the system files and transfer a file to the RM 4 Figure 5 Logging on to the RM 4 Type in the appropriate login name and password and click the Log on button in this dialog box to send the information to the server If the name and...

Page 25: ... of two background colors is inclusive for the color below it There are three ways to set the background colors for the purpose of this explanation a b c and d indicate values from maximum through to minimum Ÿ Green middle where a b c d defines that a value is normal only within a certain range The operation is in a warning state if the value is between a and b or between c and d It is fatal if th...

Page 26: ...and the conversion between the counts and the reported value are defined in the system configuration Channel 1 current reading of channel 1 Channel 2 current reading of channel 2 Channel 3 current reading of channel 3 Data port 1 4 Data port 5 8 The data port pages see Figure 7 display the statistics for the data transmission through the RM 4 serial ports The state of health information reported f...

Page 27: ...st GPS query east west in degrees Elevation current elevation in meters of the RM 4 obtained from the last GPS query On time duration in seconds when GPS is on during its previous duty cycle Off time duration in seconds when GPS is off during its previous duty cycle Lock time time in seconds GPS took to get locked during its previous duty cycle Time difference time correction in micro seconds made...

Page 28: ...age time the time at which the update message was generated PRN the PRN number of the satellite used in the channel Status channel activity e g unlocked search or track Elevation altitude of the satellite It varies from 0 to 90 with 0 parallel to the surface Azimuth azimuth of the satellite It varies from 0 to 360 counterclockwise Signal level the strength of the signal expressed as a signal to no...

Page 29: ... the front the system configuration pages see Figure 10 The ability of a client to change a particular part of the configuration depends on his her access level either factory tech or user System Hardware The System Hardware page contains the configurable items of the RM 4 system and hardware System RM 4 serial number The serial number of the RM 4 Factory access Config port baud rate Baud rate byt...

Page 30: ...anges from 1 to 120 Default value is 60 Tech access External State of Health Configuration Calibration Value in units volt used to convert volt reading to the value of the observed item Value cannot be 0 Default value is 1 Tech access Offset Value added to the calibrated output reading It can be any floating point value Default value is 0 0 Tech access Label Name or content of the channel output L...

Page 31: ...value of ReTx port for the default data port defines the port through which the RM 4 sends the retransmit requests for an unknown digitiser that is connected to a different RM 4 The value may vary from 0 to 7 where 0 means rejecting any retransmit request for an unknown digitiser Baud rate Baud rate of the serial port connecting the RM 4 and a digitiser Select one of the values in the given list D...

Page 32: ...h access Subnet mask Network mask used to define the RM 4 subnet For example 255 255 255 0 Values range from 0 to 255 Default value is 255 255 255 0 Tech access Destination Internet configuration A destination station is a remote computer to which the RM 4 server sends the time series data and SOH information through an Internet connection The RM 4 also listens for any request from the remote comp...

Page 33: ... new information The user is also prompted if he she wants to see the text display of the configuration Submit new configuration After editing the configuration click the Submit Config button to send the new configuration to the server The user is prompted whether he she wants to see the text display of the configuration If all of the configuration settings are acceptable the server stores the con...

Page 34: ...files are stored in various partitions of an RM 4 Partitions in which the program is used in operation are not available for file uploading Figure 14 System Files Application The System Files page contains five buttons to select the following file management functions Request request the system file information from the RM 4 Load file load a file from the local computer Send file send to the RM 4 ...

Page 35: ...he Test code function asks the RM 4 to test the other program code which is not currently running The user interface prompts the user to confirm the code to be tested If confirmed the RM 4 tests the code The user will see a message that the RM 4 is rebooting If successful the operator should send Set as default command to set the tested code as the default program Set as default The Set as default...

Page 36: ...sion 4 05 or higher which supports Java language version 1 2 To check if the Internet browser is set to run the RM 4 user interface test it by accessing Java support for RM 4 under FAQ at the Nanometrics web site www nanometrics ca As an applet RM 4 user interface requests permission to access the user s local file system Granting the access is only necessary when a file is to be transferred from ...

Page 37: ...C68160 Ethernet controller Serial Communications A quad universal asynchronous receiver transmitter UART is used to provide four additional serial communications channels These channels along with three SCCs and one SMC of the PowerPC comprise the eight external serial ports on the RM 4 All of these ports are equipped with RS 232 transceivers and EMI suppression using ferrite beads Surge protectio...

Page 38: ...e has blown follow the following procedure exactly This procedure should only be done in an anti static environment Make sure you and the board are electrically grounded and then remove the screws from the rear panel of the RM 4 Take off the rear panel and slide the PCB out of the bottom tray of the enclosure Using a digital multimeter check the resistance of the fuse This fuse will be located at ...

Page 39: ...5V power or whether it is configured for 12V operation Note that in either case 12V power should never be applied to the 5V input pin Please refer to the connector pinout in the appendices If you are still unsure which power supply to use use the following procedure to identify the internal configuration This procedure should only be done in an anti static environment Ensure that you and the board...

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Page 41: ...Clock 24 576 MHz Ethernet Controller MC68160 Ethernet Controller Clock 20 MHz Static Memory 2 Mbyte Flash Memory 4 Mbyte User Interface Single Tricolour LED flashing green amber red off Configuration web browser via Ethernet External Connectors Power female 5 pin DIN shielded Ethernet RJ 45 shielded Serial Ports 8 port RJ 45 shielded GPS SMA bulkhead jack Serial Ports Number of Serial Ports seven ...

Page 42: ...H 3 External SOH Range 20 46V External SOH Resolution 40 0 mV Surge Protection bi directional transorbs clamp voltages to 36 V Standard External Power Supply Power 15W Output 5V 5 Output Connector male 5 pin DIN Input 90 260V AC at 47 63 Hz Input Connector male IEC 320 Emissions Approvals CE LVD EMC FCC Cord Length 2m RM 4 Manual 36 Appendix A Specifications ...

Page 43: ... below Figure 15 Female 5 Pin DIN Connector 12V input 5 N C 4 5V input 3 power return 2 chassis ground 1 Signal Pin Table 1 Power Connector Pinout Ethernet This connector is a standard shielded 8 pin modular jack RJ 45 Figure 16 8 pin Modular Jack Connector RM 4 Manual 37 Appendix B Connectors ...

Page 44: ...he same as for that of the Ethernet connector with the pinouts as given below RI 8 N C 7 N C 6 GND 5 RX 4 TX 3 CTS 2 RTS 1 Signal Pin Table 3 Port 1 Connector Pinout N C 8 N C 7 N C 6 GND 5 RX 4 TX 3 CTS 2 RTS 1 Signal Pin Table 4 Ports 2 3 5 and 6 Connector Pinout RM 4 Manual 38 Appendix B Connectors N C 8 N C 7 RX 6 N C 5 N C 4 RX 3 TX 2 TX 1 Signal Pin ...

Page 45: ...1 8 SOH_GND 7 SOH_EXT2 6 GND 5 RX 4 TX 3 SOH_EXT3 2 RESERVED 1 Signal Pin Table 6 Configuration Port Port 8 Connector Pinout GPS Antenna The GPS antenna connector is a standard SMA bulkhead jack which is connected internally via a short coaxial cable to the GPS engine RM 4 Manual 39 Appendix B Connectors ...

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Page 47: ...efault Value Write Access Parameter Label Table 7 Hardware Configuration HRD Message Processor 1 to 7 7 Never Number of HRD Ports 1 to 7 1 Never First HRD Port Valid Range Default Value Write Access Parameter Label Table 8 HRD Message Processor Configuration Telemetry Packet Reader Y N N Technician TDMA Enabled 0 7 0 Technician Retransmission port Y N N Technician Scrambling Enabled 1 to 999 60 Te...

Page 48: ...000 Technician Data Rerequest IP Port any 199 71 138 129 Technician RM 4 IP Address Valid Range Default Value Write Access Parameter Label Table 11 Internet Configuration GPS 1 to 120 60 Technician Duty Cycle Period minutes 1 to 120 5 Technician Duty Cycle On Time minutes Y N N Technician Duty Cycling Enabled Valid Range Default Value Write Access Parameter Label Table 12 GPS Configuration Access ...

Page 49: ...g During its operation an RM 4 stores the log messages in its internal ringbuffer memory while sending them to the central acquisition computer as part of its state of health data An operator can use the RM 4 user interface to view the last 100 lines of the log messages These messages are eventually stored at the central acquisition computer along with the NAQS log messages in the NAQS log file Pa...

Page 50: ...tch any of the user name and password pairs configured in the RM 4 Reset the logon window type in the correct user name and password and try to login again RequestSubmitConfig Updated config from remote request The RM 4 configuration was updated with the new configuration received from the RM 4 user interface File successfully uploaded The RM 4 successfully received and accepted the file sent by t...

Page 51: ...n the flash memory and is using the default configuration in its code Reconfigure the RM 4 using the RM 4 user interface since the default configuration does not contain any information specific to the existing network Set the RM 4 to its correct IP address first and then configure the other components in its configuration Once tested the new configuration should be stored permanently with a Commi...

Page 52: ...bly serialiseTheConfig is not successful The RM 4 could not retrieve the log messages for the request log command sent by the RM 4 user interface Restart the RM 4 RequestSOH Probably serialiseTheConfig is not successful The RM 4 could not retrieve the SOH information for the request SOH command sent by the RM 4 user interface Repeat the Request SOH command If the problem persists reboot the RM 4 S...

Page 53: ...be generated Restart the RM 4 Debug CommandPacketDispatcher Datagram socket error Datagram socket did not receive the data successfully Received bad NAQS command The format of the received command packet from NAQS is bad Received valid NAQS command The format of the received command packet from NAQS is good RequestConfig Probably serialiseTheConfig is not successful The RM 4 could not serialize th...

Page 54: ...ied partition Check if the code from the specified partition is running File file name has been uploaded RM 4 accepted the file with the name specified in the message RM4 Checking for dead threads The RM 4 is performing a check on the various processes It will restart the ones that are not responding RM 4 Manual 48 Appendix D Instrument Log Messages ...

Page 55: ...ables are included 11824 RM 4 Configuration Port Test Cable 11825 RM 4 Serial Port RJ 45 to DB 9 Female Adapter 11831 RM 4 Serial Port RJ 45 to DB 9 Male Adapter 11844 RM 4 Serial Port Loopback Test Plug 12288 RM 4 Serial Port RJ 45 to DB 9 Male Adapter Wiring for Radio Transmitter key line wired high Appendix E External Cable Drawings RM 4 Manual 49 ...

Page 56: ...e 2 pair 22 AWG WIR0033 W1 3000 8723 Belden wire 2 pair 22 AWG WIR0033 P3 1 108 0252 001 Johnson plug dual banana CON0016 for P1 2 2 17D 09HV Amphenol shroud CON0014 P2 1 DE09 S AMP 9 pin D sub female CON0011 P1 1 DE09 P AMP 9 pin D sub male CON0010 Cct Ref Qty Part No Mfg Description Bin Table 1 Parts List Fig 1 Cable Assembly SOH_GND 3 8723 22 black W2 P3 6 P1 SOH_EXT3 3 8723 22 red W2 P3 7 P1 S...

Page 57: ...1 Obtain a female DB 9 modular adapter kit CON0613 2 Assemble the adapter according to the wiring list Table 1 given below Note that all manufacturers may not use the same color coding for the wires 3 Label the adapter with the drawing number and revision and the title RM 4 Female Serial Adapter CTS 8 blue PWR_CTRL RTS 1 RTS 7 orange SOH_EXT3 CTS 2 RX 2 black TX TX 3 TX 3 red RX RX 4 GND 5 green G...

Page 58: ...pter kit CON0614 2 Assemble the adapter according to the wiring list Table 1 given below Note that all manufacturers may not use the same color coding for the wires 3 Label the adapter with the drawing number and revision and the title RM 4 Male Serial Adapter CTS 7 blue PWR_CTRL RTS 1 RTS 8 orange SOH_EXT3 CTS 2 RX 3 black TX TX 3 TX 2 red RX RX 4 GND 5 green GND GND 5 DTR 6 yellow SOH_EXT2 N C 6...

Page 59: ...onnect ends of wires as directed in Table 2 referring to Fig 2 4 Place shrink wrap over each set of bare wires as well as over the entire stub of cable W1 2 1585A Belden wire 4 pair 24 AWG UTP LAN WIR0115 P1 1 PHP 8P8C 5 PDI connector modular plug 8 pin CON0478 Cct Ref Qty Part No Mfg Description Bin Table 1 Parts List Fig 1 Cable Assembly RTS RI 2 cm 1585A 24 W1 8 P1 1 P1 RTS CTS 2 cm 1585A 24 W1...

Page 60: ...4 2 Assemble the adapter according to the wiring list Table 1 given below Note that all manufacturers may not use the same color coding for the wires 3 Label the adapter with the drawing number and revision and the title RM 4 to Tx 4 Cover unused terminals with heatshrink tubing fold wires into housing Key 9 blue PWR_CTRL RTS 1 orange SOH_EXT3 CTS 2 RX 3 black TX TX 3 red RX RX 4 GND 5 green GND G...