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Integrated Circuit ProductsMotion Control Processors with All-Motor Capabilities from Performance Motion Devices  Magellan™ motion control chip provides all-motor flexibility, reducing design costs and time-to-market for equipment design engineers Lincoln, MA - Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD) announces advanced capabilities of its Magellan™ programmable motion processor to directly support multiple motor types in single and multiple axis applications. Reduced application design time is achieved using these ultra-high performance ICs to create motion control applications supporting all major motor types including DC brushed, brushless DC, step motors and pulse and direction motors ...More >>Performance Motion Devices' Motion Control IC Increases Performance at High Velocity  Field oriented control is a math-intensive technique that improves efficiency and increases performance for brushless DC motors Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD) announces the MC73110 Motor Control IC with field oriented control (FOC) for brushless DC motors. This compact and intelligent single-axis IC increases motor efficiency, delivers a wide range of usable motor speeds along with numerous monitoring and control features. Only a MOSFET or IGBT three-phase bridge is needed to implement a full-featured drive. The MC73110 is ideal for use in applications such as medical automation, semiconductor equipment, general automation, scientific instrumentation, and other applications with high performance, low-cost brushless motor amplifiers. Field oriented control is a math-intensive technique for commutating motors which provides greater motor efficiency, and higher top-end rotation speed then alternate methods.
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Performance Motion Devices' Motion Control IC Delivers Automatic Motion System Monitoring  Performance Motion Devices, Inc. announces the Magellan™ family of motion control ICs, with automatic machine monitoring capability for recording and reacting to performance and safety-related conditions. These flexible, programmable motion chips offer users the ability to define and initiate motion-related actions such as smooth stop, abrupt stop, or system disable upon occurrence of user-defined conditions. In addition, a hardware trace buffer can be used to collect long-term performance data. Magellan ICs are available for DC brush, brushless DC, microstepping, and step motors. Magellan’s automatic machine monitoring system handles conditions such as motion error, positive and negative limit switches, position breakpoints, commutation monitoring, and others.
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Performance Motion Devices Offers Motion Control ICs with Servo Trace Capability  Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD) announces the Magellan™ Family of Motion Processors with real-time servo trace capture. This advanced trace capability improves servo tuning performance, optimizes motion trajectories, and can be used to capture time sensitive data.Available in 1, 2, 3 and 4 axis versions, these intelligent motion ICs control DC brush, brushless DC, microstepping, and pulse & direction motors. The advanced trace feature allows up to four motion variables to be stored at the same time, and each variable can be either 16 or 32 bits in size. Twenty eight separate parameters can be selected for trace such as position, velocity, acceleration, servo lag, and much more. The capture 'trigger' for Magellan's trace feature is programmable, and can be based on a variety of c... ...More >> |
