Magellan® Motion Control ICs provide high performance motion control for medical, scientific, robotics, and automation applications. Available in 1, 2, 3, and 4-axis versions, Magellans provide position and velocity control for Brushless DC, step, and DC Brush motors. These flexible and powerful ICs provide profile generation, servo-loop closure, commutation, current control, and pulse and direction output along with direct quadrature encoder input.
The Magellan Family of Motion Control ICs provide advanced motion control for medical, scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications. Available in 1, 2, 3, and 4-axis versions, these flexible, programmable devices control Brushless DC, DC Brush, and step motors.
Magellan Motion ICs are complete motion controllers requiring only an external amplifier to be functional. They are driven by a host using either a parallel bus, SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface), CANbus 2.0B, or RS232/485 serial. User selectable profiling modes include S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring and electronic gearing. PID servo loop compensation utilizes a 32-bit position error and includes velocity and acceleration feedforward. High performance FOC (field oriented control) provides high accuracy, ultra-low noise motor operation.
All Magellan Motion Control ICs provide a flexible and powerful instruction set to initialize and control motion axes, monitor performance, and synchronize overall machine behavior. Working with Magellan ICs and Pro-Motion® development software makes it fast and easy to graph and analyze system performance; while C-Motion® language allows you to develop your own application using C/C++ or .NET languages.
MC58000 Series: Positioning Motion Control ICs providing 1 to 4 axes of control for Brushless DC, DC Brush and step motors in a two-IC package.
MC55000 Series: Pulse and direction output positioning ICs providing 1 to 4 axes of control for step motors in a two-IC package.
MC58113 Series: Single axis positioning motion control ICs with integrated current control for Brushless DC, DC Brush and step motors in a single IC package. See dedicated datasheet.
Part Number | Number of Axes | Current Control (Y/N) | Motors Supported |
MC51113 | 1 | Y | DC Brush |
MC53113 | 1 | Y | Brushless DC |
MC54113 | 1 | Y | Step Motor |
MC58113 | 1 | Y | DC Brush, Brushless DC, step motor |
Part Number* | Number of Axes | Current Control (Y/N) | Motors Supported |
MC58120CP | 1 | N | DC Brush, Brushless DC, step motor |
MC58220CP | 2 | N | DC Brush, Brushless DC, step motor |
MC58320CP | 3 | N | DC Brush, Brushless DC, step motor |
MC58420CP | 4 | N | DC Brush, Brushless DC, step motor |
MC55120CP | 1 | N | Step motor (pulse & direction format) |
MC55220CP | 2 | N | Step motor (pulse & direction format) |
MC55320CP | 3 | N | Step motor (pulse & direction format) |
MC55420CP | 4 | N | Step motor (pulse & direction format) |
MC50000IOSE8G | N/A | N/A | N/A |
* Each listed CP chip is accompanied by the MC50000IOSE8G IC, together forming a two-IC chipset.
Parameter |
Value |
Motors supported |
Brushless DC, DC Brush, Step motor |
Host communication options |
Serial RS232/485 |
Position range |
-2,147,483,648 to +2,147,483,647 counts |
Velocity range |
0 to 32,767 counts/sample |
Acceleration and deceleration range |
0 to 32,767 counts/sample2 |
Jerk range |
0 to 1/2 counts/sample3 |
Servo loop range |
50 μsec to 1.1 sec |
Position error resolution |
32 bits |
Commutation rate |
20 kHz |
Signals per axis |
QuadA/B, Index, Home, Hall A/B/C AxisIn, Pos/NegLimit, AxisOut, FaultOut |
Max encoder rate |
Incremental: Up to 25 Mcounts/sec |
Operating temperature (Ta) |
-40º C to 85º C |
Supply voltage operating range (Vcc) |
3.0 V to 3.6 V |
Atlas Digital Amplifier | |
Amplifier SPI bus interface | 16-bit continuous torque command |
Voltage range | 12-56V, single voltage supply |
Power range | Low (75W), Medium (250W), High (500W) |
Safety | Overcurrent, over/undervoltage, overtemperature, I2T |
Package | Ultra-compact (27 x 27 x 13 mm), compact (39 x 39 x 15 mm) |
On-board PWM amplifier circuitry | |
PWM output rate | 20, 40, or 80 kHz |
Current control modes | FOC (field oriented control), A/B, third leg floating, voltage modefloating, voltage mode |
Current loop rate | 20 kHz |
PWM output modes | High/Low, Sign/Magnitude, 50/50 |
External +/- 10V input amplifier | |
Amplifier SPI bus serial DAC | 16 bits |
Pulse & direction input amplifier | |
Pulse and direction output rate | Up to 4.9 Mpulses/sec |
MC 58xx0 CP | |
Supply Voltage (Vcc) |
-0.3V to +4.6V |
Vcc5 range |
-0.3V to +5.5V |
Input voltage (Vi) | -0.3V to +4.6V |
Package thermal impedance (θJA) | 32°C/W |
Junction temperature range (Tj) | -40°C to 150°C |
Storage Temperature (Ts) | -65°C to 150°C |
Nominal Clock Frequency (Fclk) | 20.0 MHz |
MC50000IOSE8G | |
Supply Voltage (Vcc) |
-0.5V to +3.6V |
Input voltage (Vi) | -0.5V to Vcc +0.5V |
Package thermal impedance (θJA) | 39.7°C/W |
Junction temperature range (Tj) | -40°C to 150°C |
Storage Temperature (Ts) | -65°C to 150°C |
Nominal Clock Frequency (Fclk) | 40.0 MHz |
PMD Developer Kits make set-up, tuning, optimizing, and building your motion control application fast and easy.
Developer Kit Part Numbers | Installed Motion IC | Motors Supported |
DK51113 | MC51113 | DC Brush |
DK53113 | MC53113 | Brushless DC |
DK54113 | MC54113 | Step motor |
DK58113 | MC58113 | DC Brush, Brushless DC, step motor |
DK58113S (Socketed) | MC58113 | DC Brush, Brushless DC, step motor |
Developer Kit Part Numbers | Installed Motion IC | Motors Supported |
DK58420 | MC58420 | DC Brush, Brushless DC, step motor |
DK55420 | MC55420 | Pulse & Direction output |
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