Hi everyone.
I'm thinking about developing a project of a cable harness tester to be used in the company where I work at.
We build a wide variety of products focused on the transportation market (locomotives) and as expected, there are tons of cable harnesses with several different plugs and receptacles.
There's this company called Cami Research that sells a cable tester where you can switch its input and output modules depending on the connectors needed for the job. I was thinking about developing something similar but WAY less complex than the product that they offer.
I've looked on the interwebs for something similar, IEEE library, didn't find much that would guide me properly.
These are the main questions that I have at the moment:
-What would be the best platform when it comes to I/O to use on this project considering that some of our connectors (DIN 41612 series) have 96 pins on each end? Microcontroller, CPLD or FPGA?
-Like on the CAMI research "modular connector boards", I suppose that whenever someone plugs a different module that contains different connectors the software recognizes that, switching the layout displayed on the screen. Does that mean that every different modules needs its own firmware ?
Maybe this project is a bit too much for my current knowledge.
Thanks.