GE VMIPCI-5565-110000 PCI Fiber Optic Reflective Memory Card

VMIPCI-5565-110000 is a high-speed fiber-optic reflective memory node card developed by GE VMIC (Abaco Systems), designed for standard PCI industrial computer slots. It builds a hardware-based real-time shared memory ring network via optical fiber, enabling deterministic low-latency data synchronization across distributed control nodes. Writing data to the on-board memory will be automatically mirrored to all other network nodes by FPGA hardware without CPU protocol overhead, meeting strict hard real-time control demands.

This model is equipped with 128MB on-board shared memory and SC fiber interface, supporting multi-mode fiber up to 500m and single-mode fiber up to 20km inter-node transmission distance. Industrial-grade PCB with EMC filtering adapts to harsh electromagnetic environments in simulation and power control systems. It is widely used as critical spare hardware for semi-physical simulation, flight simulators and nuclear power distributed control racks.

Main Specifications

• Brand: GE VMIC (Abaco Systems); Model: VMIPCI-5565-110000; Bus Standard: PCI 2.3 64-bit/66MHz
• Onboard Memory: 128MB shared reflective memory; Serial fiber rate: 2.12Gbaud
• Throughput: Max 174MB/s (64-byte packet); Inter-node latency ≈400ns deterministic delay
• Fiber Interface: SC connector; Multi-mode max 500m, Single-mode max 20,000m
• Network Scale: Support up to 256 nodes in one ring network; hardware interrupt trigger function
• Supported OS: VxWorks, Linux, Windows, Solaris; complete RFM2g API development library
• Operating Temp: -40℃ ~ +85℃ industrial wide temperature, CE & FCC certified
• Mechanical: Standard full-height PCI bracket, single-slot installation inside industrial IPC
• Matching Hardware: VMIVME-5565 VME reflective memory card, PCIE-5565, fiber optic bypass switches

Core Functions

• Hardware mirror shared memory network: data written to local RAM is instantly synchronized to all ring nodes via fiber without TCP/IP stack overhead.
• Hardware interrupt notification: configurable interrupt signals to CPU when specified memory address data changes for fast real-time response.
• Long-distance anti-interference transmission: optical fiber completely isolates electromagnetic noise from high-power equipment, stable in power plant and metallurgical workshops.
• Cross-bus interconnection: seamlessly interwork with VME, PMC, PCIe version 5565 series cards to build mixed-bus distributed real-time control systems.
• Built-in ring bypass circuit: automatically bypass faulty node to keep the whole network running when single card fails, improving system redundancy.
• Standard PCI plug-and-play design; unified memory mapping logic allows direct replacement without modifying real-time control program codes.

Application Scenarios

• Real-time synchronization spare card for aerospace flight simulators, vehicle semi-physical simulation test benches.
• Distributed control network spare parts for thermal power, hydropower and nuclear power plant DCS real-time monitoring racks.
• Maintenance backup inventory for industrial motion synchronous control, multi-axis robot coordinated simulation systems.
• Matching real-time communication node cooperating with VME-5565 rack cards and industrial real-time IPCs.

• Replacement spare components for aging simulation platforms with high network delay and data synchronization deviation faults.

• Global aftermarket spare stock for aerospace, energy and industrial simulation equipment maintenance workshops.