[Halld-online] [Fwd: Re: Communicating with many SMBus devices]

[Elliott Wolin]

FYI:

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Subject: 	Re: Communicating with many SMBus devices
Date: 	Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:02:51 -0700
From: 	Eric Norum <wenorum at lbl.gov>
To: 	Elliott Wolin <wolin at jlab.org>
References: 	<4D9F32D6.4070808 at jlab.org>



How about something like this?  I've not used it, but it sounds like it might work and has decent multi-OS support.

	http://www.nanorivertech.com/?gclid=COP_yqSojagCFRFOgwodD2KDDQ

You'd need to put a box around it of course.


On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Elliott Wolin wrote:

> We have to read out about 700 channels on SMBus (mostly temperatures on front-end DAQ preamp boards).  Does anyone have experience doing something like this?  Does anyone know of a commercial gateway from e.g. Ethernet to SMBus?  All I see on the web are chips that can talk to SMBus, implying we have to build something.  We of course prefer not to.
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> 				Sincerely,
> 					Elliott
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Eric Norum
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				Sincerely,
					Elliott
 

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 Those raised in a morally relative or neutral environment will hold
		    no truths to be self-evident.
				   

Elliott Wolin
Staff Physicist, Jefferson Lab
12000 Jefferson Ave
Suite 8 MS 12A1
Newport News, VA 23606
757-269-7365

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