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News Release from: Superior Solutions | Subject: PMC-54300
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 18 June 2004
PCI card controls four-axis motion
The PMC-54300 is a quad-axis motion and machine control card, based on a plug-and-play PCIbus format.
The PMC-54300 is a quad-axis motion and machine control card, based on a plug-and-play PCIbus format Accompanied by free easy-to-use powerful software, the card can easily be incorporated into any machine control task with no special user skills
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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All motor command and motion feedback lines are optically isolated, assuring reliable performance in extremely harsh working environments.
The PMC-54300 four current inputs and four voltage inputs as well as four analogue output lines.
These analogue I/O lines are of 8bit resolution, providing a complete machine control solution.
The onboard encoder/counter inputs provide reliable position feedback and may be used as a user definable counter.
This ensures precision and enables auto-positioning corrections.
The PMC-54300 is equipped with 48 discrete I/O lines for general use.
These lines can easily operate 24 relays and a standard optoisolated input board, to control an intelligent machine or it can be used at TTL level with an output of up to 24mA per channel.
An additional eight optoisolated I/O lines are available when operating up to four motor axes system.
A high level of flexibility provided by the controller's free software package, makes system integration a brief task.
The software provides ability to execute user-defined scripts, execute high-performance motion control tasks such as linear and circular interpolation control all I/O, import HPGL files and much more.
The software package includes controller drivers, Win9x/NT/2000/XP DLLs, a complete machine control application with graphical scripting capabilities and more.
This ensures a significantly short time to market for system developers, as well as simple and immediate operation by the end-user, sparing the need for any additional software development.
The software provides support for HPGL files, created by various vector drawing applications.
This feature allows users to draw complex outlines and filling using their favourite CAD software and then convert it into a motion script without writing any code.
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