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Magellan® Motion Control Processor

By Design World Staff | September 11, 2008

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Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA ‚— Performance Motion Devices, Inc. has continued to develop the features of the Magellan‚® family of motion control processors since its launch in 2003. Recent advancements of the product line and demand from OEM design customers have propelled Magellan to its status as an industry leader in motion control IC design. It is the core motion control component in a wide variety of applications across industries that require very high position accuracy, reliability and stability. Magellan is at the heart of machines such as clinical blood analyzers, semiconductor wafer handling equipment, surface inspection systems, and three-dimensional printing systems. Each of these unique applications was made faster and more accurate by incorporating the Magellan motion control processor.

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Motion Control Features


Recent advancements of the Magellan family and its accompanying Pro-Motion‚® and C-Motion‚® software tools have created a powerful combination that gives designers a way to quickly incorporate motion control functionality into their demanding machine designs. Magellan provides designers with 1, 2, 3, and 4-axis chip set versions that can control DC brush, brushless DC, microstepping, and pulse & direction motors. Magellan Motion Control Processors are complete motion controllers requiring only an external amplifier to be functional. They are driven by a host using either an 8 or 16-bit parallel bus, CANBus 2.0B, or an asynchronous serial port. User selectable profiling modes include S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring and electronic gearing. Servo loop compensation utilizes a full 32-bit position error, PID with velocity and acceleration feedforward, integration limit, and dual bi-quad filters for sophisticated motion control of complex loads.


Motion Control Development Software


Pro-Motion‚® is a Microsoft Windows‚®-based prototyping tool, to rapidly set up, tune, and test motion control systems that use the Magellan‚® Motion Control Processor. Pro-Motion optimizes motion system applications by facilitating the setting and viewing of all parameters and the exercising of all features of a motion design. It includes a step-by-step axis wizard that allows designers to quickly and easily tune control loops. C-Motion‚® development software is the motion control programming library for Magellan that provides a convenient set of callable C/C++ programming routines which contain all the code required to communicate with and control Magellan within an application. C-Motion enables your application specific C/C++ coding to be easily combined with C-Motion source code libraries. All set-up and development software is included free with Magellan.


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