Creative Power Technologies
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Overview

Creative Power has a range of display boards that have been developed with different user interfaces.

A 2 line x 16 character LCD display plus keypad is common to the range, with display LEDs and various communications interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485 and USB.

Creative Power has developed these display boards based around Texas Instruments MSP430 range of micro controllers.

 

Technical Specifications

On-card facilities include:

  • MSP430F169 processor
  • Serial Flash Memory with 1Mbit of non-volatile storage
  • Real time of day clock with supercapacitor back up
  • 3mm LED outputs – Digitally Controlled
  • 1 off Buzzer
  • 4 button keypad
  • 16 character x 2 line LCD display, with controllable LED backlight
  • Power supply to generate all on-card supplies
  • Power supply operation from input 80-200VDC
  • Reverse polarity, fuse failure and DC Voltage present detection (indication independent to MSP)
  • Fuse failure detection for a 3 phase AC signal (indication independent to MSP)

The card range also supports the following peripheral interfaces:

  • JTAG interface
  • Isolated RS-485 serial interface
  • Isolated RS-232 serial interface
  • Isolated USB interface