Knowledge Base

The SL100 with Firmware dialect 20 and later supports Xwire. Xwire is an easy to use method of connecting several boards together into a multiprocessor network.

The Xwire connections are on the SPice connector. The board’s Xwire address is set via your program, if it is to be a slave.

Xwire documentation.

The maximum number of data bytes that can be transferred into or out of the SL100 via Xwire is 32.

Electrically the SL100 can drive 10 unit loads and represents one unit load. That means one SL100 board can drive 10 other SL100s or other “unit load” boards.

The master configuration table may contain a maximum of 50 entries. This is more than the hardware limit. Conceivably one slave board might have more than one logical device (address) on it.