 The all-motor Magellan™ Developer’s Kit from Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD), is an integrated board and software package that allows designers to evaluate and exercise PMD’s Magellan Family of Motion-Control-ICs. The Developer’s Kit delivers dedicated multi-axis, multi-motor motion control for DC brush, brushless DC, microstepping and pulse & direction motors, providing a powerful tool for engineers who need to shorten design time while building sophisticated motion control applications.
This sophisticated multi-axis, multi-motor motion-control-developer's-kit includes a four-axis PCI-based motion card with PMD’s ultra-high performance Magellan Motion Control IC that provides user selectable profiling modes including S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring and electronic gearing. It performs motor output signal generation (PWM, analog, and pulse & direction), servo loop closure for DC brush and brushless DC motors, and provides PLC-style inputs and outputs for custom applications control. Other advanced features of the Magellan DK card include separately programmable acceleration and deceleration values, parallel I/O CANBus, serial point-to-point, multi-drop host communications, dual-loop encoder input, biquad servo filtering, multiple profile breakpoints, and on-card servo trace. The Developer's Kit includes the user’s choice of a specific Magellan Motion Control IC installed on a surface-mount PCI motion card, interconnection cables, and a CD-ROM containing software and documentation. By interfacing to an external amplifier and motor via two 50-pin header connectors, the user can create a complete motion system.
Included with the developer’s kit is PMD’s Motion-Control-Software. C-Motion® Application Programming Interface (API) consisting of C-Source code for developing motion control applications using the Magellan Motion Processors. This API can be used to write sophisticated user applications with standard C and C++ language commands and can be linked to any Visual Basic application via PMD’s VB-Motion™. The kit also includes PMD’s powerful Pro-Motion® exerciser program, a sophisticated, easy to use Windows® -based program that allows the user to quickly exercise the motion hardware.
The Magellan Motion Processor Developer's Kit can be used as a platform to develop software, as a stand-alone chipset exerciser/test bed, or as a general-purpose motion development system. It can also be used as a tool for developing and debugging application code.
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