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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Ormec Systems Corp | Subject: ServoWire SM
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 13 June 2005
FireWire servos gain graphical
development
Ormec has set up strategic marketing relationship with National Instruments aimed at using the new NI SoftMotion Controller with Ormec's IEEE1394-based ServoWire SM drives.
Ormec has set up strategic marketing relationship with National Instruments aimed at using the new NI SoftMotion Controller with Ormec's IEEE1394-based ServoWire SM drives Engineers now can use the National Instruments LabView graphical development environment to create powerful distributed motion applications with the new NI SoftMotion Controller for Ormec IEEE1394-based intelligent drives
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 14 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The NI SoftMotion Controller is a soft motion interface between NI-Motion driver software and distributed intelligent drives.
Users now can program IEEE1394-based ServoWire SM drives from Ormec with the easy-to-use NI-Motion API in LabView.
A distributed motion architecture offers many advantages over centralised motion, including simplified cabling with lower setup and maintenance costs.
The NI SoftMotion Controller for IEEE1394 is compatible with any Ormec ServoWire SM drive.
Users can daisychain up to 15 drives together and connect them to the real-time host.
The real-time isochronous mode of the IEEE1394 bus transfers data between the drives and the host.
ServoWire SM drives are designed to offer high performance motion control using all-digital servodrives connected via an open standard FireWire network.
Three series of drives (230, 460 and LP) offer solutions with power from 200 to 24,000W and continuous current output from 2.4 to 60A RMS per phase.
ServoWire drives operate on DC, 115, 230 or 460V AC input power, provide both output short circuit and overvoltage protection and are certified to UL and CE standards.
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