TR-BLUE
TR-Blue is a low power and highly capable OEM data acquisition and signal processing system, specifically designed for long term and autonomous deployments. TR-Blue is modular, it consists of an extremely flexible processing engine with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) and a tightly integrated ARM Cortex M4 processor for signal processing with expansion connectors capable of interfacing to almost any analog sensing system.
Turbulent Research provides analog signal conditioning and digitization expansion boards that mate directly with TR-Blue for applications in underwater acoustics.
TR-Blue has been optimized for low power consumption while still giving users access to serious processing horsepower and the flexibility to interface to just about any sensing system. Traditionally, researchers and scientists have had to use off the shelf single board computers or development kits to develop their new and innovative instruments, sacrificing optimized power consumption and system flexibility. TR-Blue is a platform designed to meet the real needs of these users without compromise.
Product Applications
- Underwater Acoustics and Signal Processing
- Sonar
- Custom Data Acquisition
- Long Term Deployments
- Low Power Instruments Requiring Real Time Analytics
- Multi-Sensor Ocean Observation
Specifications
Power |
Supports Seamless Power Multiplexing for Internal/External Power (10-25 V) |
USB Power: 5 V DC |
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Average Power Consumption : 100 mW – 1.0 W depending on use |
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Less than 1 mW in Sleep Mode |
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Processors |
ARM Cortex M4 (180 MHz CPU, Floating Point Support) |
Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA |
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Integrated Peripherals |
10/100 Ethernet (PTP supported) |
RS422 (Or 232) ,3x Expansion UARTS |
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Host High Speed USB |
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Device Full Speed USB |
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Bluetooth |
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Real Time Clock |
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3 Axis Accelerometer |
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3 Axis Compass |
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Temperature Sensor |
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Memory |
1 MByte Flash |
256 kByte internal SRAM, 1 Mbyte External SRAM |
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1 Mbit serial EEPROM |
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On Board External Micro SD card slot |
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Expansion |
FPGA And ARM processor pins brought out to two high speed expansion connectors supporting: SPI, I2C, SDIO, GPIO, UART, TIMERS and any custom IO through the FPGA |
Expansion Boards Available For: |
Multichannel analog to digital conversion (16,24 bits) |
Broadband Signal Generation |
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Interfaces to other digital instruments (RS232 or Ethernet) |
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Custom Input/Output |
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GPS |
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Real Time Communications over RF, cellular or Iridium |