What is EtherNet/IP?
Jun 1st 2024
EtherNet/IP is open-source and is managed and developed by the Open DeviceNet Vendors Association (ODVA), a tax-exempt business league that includes a wide variety of
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What is Modbus?
Jun 1st 2024
Modbus, initially developed in 1979, is one of the oldest, most widely used industrial communications protocols. Traditionally, Modbus was/is implemented using RS-232
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What is Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)?
May 1st 2024
MOSA is a strategy used by the Department of Defense (DoD) to make their systems more competitive and affordable throughout their lifespan. It involves designing syst
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What network speeds can SeaI/O Ethernet (SeaI/O-E) modules handle? In a vacuum, SeaI/O Ethernet Modules (SeaI/O-E) can reach latency and polling speeds of around 30 m
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SeaMAC: ssiEncodingNone vs ssiEncodingNrz
Mar 25th 2024
Aren’t the ssiEncodingNone and ssiEncodingNrz clock encoding methods in SeaMAC the same? They are very similar, but the difference is that “None” t
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Sealevel’s 7203e does have onboard dip switches that would allow you to turn off the 102 Ohm resistor; the 120 Ohm resistor can be changed throug
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There are a wide variety of benefits to utilizing a COM Express architecture for embedded computing devices. By using COM architecture, manufacturers can provide
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What in-house product testing – including simulation, verification, and validation – capabilities does Sealevel have?
Jan 26th 2024
What in-house product testing – including simulation, verification, and validation – capabilities does Sealevel have? Sealevel utilizes a “design for certification” a
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What are the differences between USB 2.0 and USB 3.2?
Oct 20th 2023
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a set of industry-standard specifications for cables, connectors, and protocols for connection, communication, and power supply. The t
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Figure 1. UKCA MarkingThe UKCA marking is the conformity marking used to indicate that a product meets all the applicable requirements to products being placed on the
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Regulating the performance of a Tiger Lake module can act as a safeguard against malfunctions caused by environmental factors such as temperature or power instability
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Raw Mode or Bit-Shift Mode
Oct 11th 2022
Raw mode is actually the simplest form of communication. The card takes every bit of data that’s received from the communication line, groups it into 8 bit bytes
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LabVIEW has a Modbus library and can be used with any device that supports Modbus. For Sealevel products, LabVIEW can be used with our eI/O adapters, SeaDAC digital
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High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) takes Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) one step further.HDLC defines the content of the control byte, allowing the transmitt
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Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC)
Sep 13th 2022
Synchronous Data Link Control, also known as SDLC, is a protocol that can be used for talking between computers or between computer and a remote device.It’s very simp
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FAQ: Blue Iris
Aug 31st 2022
Sealevel’s SeaI/O and eI/O devices are frequently used in conjunction with Blue Iris Video Management Software. Many customers have been able to successfully utilize
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Bisynchronous communications
Aug 30th 2022
Bisynchronous communications have a 16-bit synchronization sequence at the beginning of the message. The rest of the message is formatted using characters like start
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Monosynchronus Communications
Aug 16th 2022
Monosync communications, as the name implies, has one sync character, 1 8-bit scene character.The problem with this is the fact that an 8-bit sequence can very easily
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