Product category:
Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Micromech | Subject: MAXp
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 03 September 2004
Motion controller card handles up to
eight axes
The MAXp is a PCIbus-based controller which has up to eight axes of user definable servo and stepper motion control.
The MAXp is a PCIbus-based controller which has up to eight axes of user definable servo and stepper motion control The MAXp is built around a PowerPC 32bit RISC processor running at 266MHz because this processor delivers exceptional servo control capabilities, quality and application performance on multi-axis requirements
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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All signals, data points, as well as the PID loop update every 122us on all eight axes and each axis of the MAXp controller can be configured as a servo, open loop stepper, or a closed loop stepper.
The MAXp includes backlash compensation, also linear, parabolic, cosine S-curve and custom profiles.
It provides real-time encoder position capture and of course circular interpolation.
There are firmware upgrades and enhancements, the firmware can be upgraded in the field.
Other features include: optoisolated digital I/O via a high-density shielded 120-pin connector; 64Kbyte of shared memory; compatibility with both 3.3 and 5V PCIbus systems; 8Mbyte of system memory; four channels of general-purpose analogue input, with 16bit, 0-10V DC input; and support for quadrature encoder feedback up to 1MHz.
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