Performance Motion Devices announced advancements of the Magellan family and its accompanying Pro-Motion and C-Motion software tools to give designers a way to quickly incorporate motion control functionality into their demanding machine designs. Magellan provides designers with 1, 2, 3, and 4-axis chip set versions that can control DC brush, brushless DC, microstepping, and pulse & direction motors. Magellan Motion Control Processors are complete motion controllers requiring only an external amplifier to be functional. They are driven by a host using either an 8 or 16-bit parallel bus, CANBus 2.0B, or an asynchronous serial port.
User selectable profiling modes include S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring and electronic gearing. Servo loop compensation utilizes a full 32-bit position error, PID with velocity and acceleration feedforward, integration limit, and dual bi-quad filters for sophisticated motion control of complex loads.
Motion Control Development Software
Pro-Motion is a Microsoft Windows-based prototyping tool, to rapidly set up, tune, and test motion control systems that use the Magellan Motion Control Processor. Pro-Motion optimizes motion system applications by facilitating the setting and viewing of all parameters and the exercising of all features of a motion design. It includes a step-by-step axis wizard that allows designers to quickly and easily tune control loops. C-Motion development software is the motion control programming library for Magellan that provides a convenient set of callable C/C++ programming routines which contain all the code required to communicate with and control Magellan within an application. C-Motion enables your application specific C/C++ coding to be easily combined with C-Motion source code libraries.
All set-up and development software is included free with Magellan.Two versions of Magellan are available. The multi-motor MC58000 series controls DC brush, brushless DC, microstepping and the MC55000 series controls pulse & direction motors. Magellan Motion Processors come in a single-IC single axis version, or in a two-IC multi-axis version. The IC’s are packaged in a 144-pin TQFP, and a 100-pin TQFP.
These devices operate at 3.3 V and prices start at $33.00 in OEM quantities.
