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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: NEE Controls | Subject: AMC controllers
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 February 2003
Controller to upgrade to 64bit RISC
processing
The most efficient motion control system on the market is about to be turbocharged, according to NEE Controls.
The most efficient motion control system on the market is about to be turbocharged, according to NEE Controls, which is currently designing a new engine card that will be plug and play compatible with its existing card The company is moving from 32bit RISC architecture to 64bit RISC which includes high-performance DSP functionality and floating point coprocessor
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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NEE reckons the benefits to its customers are immense as it will give its already high performance systems a typical 20-fold increase in computational performance.
This means that irrespective of the number of axes or geometry, the limiting components preventing users from machining parts faster will be the drive chain.
Unlike competing systems, the NEE specification, for example servo and trajectory update, does not incrementally reduce as users add more axes or the number of commands being processed per second decreases.
By talking to its customers and distributors NEE Controls has identified a number of improvements that it reckons will delight its customers, including: increasing the available job storage space from 150Kbyte standard to 4Mbyte and as an option to a massive 10Gbyte; providing an option for data to be stored to a hard drive; use of a plug-in storage medium to allow upgrades and job data to be changed easily; and providing a maintenance-free method of storing nonvolatile job and configuration data, thereby removing the need for battery backup.
From its launch in mid 2003, all AMC controllers from NEE will be fitted with the new engine board as standard.
Existing AMC users will be able to turbocharge their existing systems by simply upgrading to the new engine card.
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