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News Release from: DDC United Kingdom | Subject: SB-36410IX
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 10 April 2002
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Data Device Corporation has developed the industry's first synchro/resolver-to-digital PMC interface card that is compatible with both VME and compact PCI hosts.
Data Device Corporation has developed the industry's first synchro/resolver-to-digital PMC interface card that is compatible with both VME and compact PCI hosts The SB-36410IX is an eight-channel COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) motion feedback card that can be parallel-mounted onto a host VME or compact PCI carrier
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The card is built around DDC's field-proven 16bit monolithic RD-19230 convertor.
The SB-36410IX measures synchro and resolver signals with eight, fully independent synchro-to-digital or resolver-to-digital channels.
Each channel is accurate up to 1.3arc-min with resolutions from 10 to 16bit.
The PMC lets designers combine multiple functions on one host card and into a single chassis slot.
The SB-36410IX also offers a number of the same advantages as dedicated VME and cPCI cards, in addition to programmable resolution and bandwidth.
These include an internal reference synthesiser which corrects inaccuracies caused by rotor-to-stator phase shift errors up to 45 degrees; built-in test and self-test simplify confidence checking and troubleshooting; and incremental optical encoder emulation - providing A quad B output and alleviating the need to alter subsystem electronics.
"Right now we're the only ones I know of manufacturing a synchro/resolver PMC interface card compatible with both VME and cPCI hosts", noted Jerry Kessler, Motion Feedback Technologies Product Marketing Manager at DDC.
"The SB-36410IX packs a lot of function into a small area while enabling testers and designers to change platforms quite easily.
Its programmable resolution and bandwidth adds further flexibility in terms of precision and dynamics over a wide range of applications".
Prototype SB-36410IX cards are currently available.
DDC will incorporate platform-specific graphical user interfaces by the time the card is in full production, in the second quarter of 2002.
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