What is the difference between an industrial computer and a usual PC?

Computer industrial control machine, with the usual PC what is the difference

Industrial control machine (Industrial Personal Computer-IPC) is a reinforced enhanced personal computer, which can be used as an industrial controller to operate reliably in industrial environments. As early as the early 80's, the United States AD company launched a similar IPC MAC-150 industrial control machine, followed by the United States IBM officially launched the industrial personal computer IBM7532. due to the IPC's reliable performance, rich software, low price, and in the industrial control machine in the emergence of the later, the application of the increasingly wide range. At present, IPC has been widely used in communications, industrial control site, road and bridge tolls, medical, environmental protection and all aspects of people's lives.

IPC technical characteristics:

1, in line with the "EIA" standard steel industrial chassis, enhance the ability to resist electromagnetic interference.

2. Adopting bus structure and modular design technology, the CPU and each functional module use the plug-in board structure with soft locking lever, which improves shock and vibration resistance.

3. The chassis is equipped with dual fans, positive pressure convection exhaust, and a dust filter to prevent dust.

4. Equipped with highly reliable industrial power supply and over-voltage and over-current protection.

5. The power supply and keyboard are equipped with electronic lock switches to prevent illegal opening, closing and illegal keyboard input.

6, with self-diagnostic function.

7. I/O templates are available on request.

8, with a "watchdog" timer, in case of failure, without human intervention and automatic reset.

9, openness, good compatibility, absorbing all the functions of the PC, can directly run a variety of PC application software.

10, can be configured with real-time operating system, easy to multi-task scheduling and running.

11, can be used passive motherboard (backplane), easy to upgrade the system.

IPC main structure:

1, all-steel chassis

IPC's all-steel chassis is designed according to the standard, anti-shock, anti-vibration, anti-electromagnetic interference, and can be mounted on the PC-bus-compatible passive motherboard.

2, passive backplane

Passive backplane slots by the ISA and PCI bus multiple slots, ISA or PCI slot number and location according to the need to have a certain choice, the board for the four-layer structure, the middle two layers were the ground layer and the power supply layer, the structure of the board can be weakened by the logic signals on the board of the mutual interference and reduce the power impedance. The bottom board can be plugged with various boards, including CPU card, display card, control card, I/O card, etc. The board can also be used as an interface for the CPU, display card, control card and I/O card.

3. The industrial power supply

is an AT switching power supply with an average trouble-free operation time of 250,000 hours.

4, CPU card

IPC's CPU card has a variety of, according to the size of the card can be divided into long card and half-length card, according to the processor can be divided into 386, 486, 586, PII, PIII motherboards, the user can be based on their own needs arbitrary selection. Its main features are: operating temperature 0-600C; equipped with a "watchdog" timer; low power consumption, the maximum 5V/2.5A.

5, other accessories:

IPC's other accessories are basically compatible with the PC, mainly CPU, memory, graphics cards, hard disk, floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, optical drive, monitor and so on. , mouse, optical drive, monitor and so on.