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PMD's New Motion Card Delivers High-Performance, Board Level Motion Control

  • December 03, 2004
  • Performance Motion Devices
  • Performance Motion Devices
  • News
Lincoln, MA - Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD) introduces the NEW Magellan™-PC/104 Motion Controller. Available in 1, 2, 3 and 4-axis versions, this card provides advanced motion control features including trajectory generation, servo loop closure, quadrature signal input, motor output signal generation, performance trace, on-the-fly changes, commutation, and much more. It supports DC brushed, brushless DC, and step motors and can communicate via a 16-bit parallel bus, CANbus or serial port.Designed with PMD’s ultra-high performance Magellan™ Motion Processor, the Magellan-PC/104 allows designers to create cost-effective, advanced motion systems using standard C or C++ programming. Card features include S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring, electronic gearing, and user-generated profile modes. The card accepts input parameters such as position, velocity, acceleration, deceleration and jerk, and generates the corresponding trajectory. Instantaneous on-the-fly changes can be sent by the user, and PLC-style external signal input/output breakpoints can be used to program automatic profile changes.Motor type can be software-selected on a per-axis basis, and include DC brushed, brushless DC, pulse & direction and microstepping output. The Magellan-PC/104 provides servo loop rates of up to 50 µSec/Axis, 5 Mcount/Sec quadrature encoder input rate, on-board trace capability of up to 32 Kwords, and pulse & direction output of up to 5 Mpulses/Sec. Additional features include limit switch input, high speed position capture, dual loop encoder input, 6-step and sinusoidal commutation, PID filter with feedforward and dual bi-quad filters, incremental and parallel encoder input, general purpose digital inputs and outputs, and general purpose analog inputs.Chuck Lewin, President and CEO of PMD, comments "Motion cards have gone through an amazing evolution in the last several years. Today it is possible to buy a cost-effective, high volume motion card that supports multiple host connection modes and multiple motor types, yet still provides incredibly fast servo loop and pulse rate output. The Magellan-PC/104 is a great example of this new generation of high performance yet cost effective motion card."Magellan-PC/104 is available now for US/North American distribution. Prices start at $540.00 in OEM quantities.For more information contact:Performance Motion Devices, Inc.55 Old Bedford RoadLincoln, MA 01773P: 781.674.9860 F: 781.674.9861 www.pmdcorp.com

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