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Product Description: Prodigy™ Motion Cards

The Prodigy™ Motion Cards provide high performance board level motion control for scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications. Available in PCI and PC/104 configurations, these cards support multiple motor types including DC brush, brushless DC, step, and microstepping motors, and are available in 1, 2, 3, and 4-axis versions.

Based on PMD's Magellan Motion Processor, the Prodigy cards provide user selectable profile modes including S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring, and electronic gearing. The card accepts input parameters such as position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk from the host and generates a corresponding trajectory on-the-fly. Servo loop compensation utilizes a full 32-bit position error, PID with velocity and acceleration feedforward, integration limit and dual biquad filters for sophisticated control of complex loads.

Working with the Prodigy Cards, PMD's Pro-Motion® GUI makes it easy to analyze system performance while C-Motion® and VB-Motion® allow you to develop your own application using C/C++ or Visual Basic.

Features: Prodigy™ Motion Cards

• Uses PMD's advanced Magellan™ Motion Processor
• PCI and PC/104 configurations
• Available in 1 ,2, 3, and 4-axis versions
• Supports DC brush, brushless DC, step, and microstepping motors
• S-curve, trapezoidal, electronic gearing, and external profile modes
• PC/104 (ISA), PCI-bus, CANbus, or serial communications
• Separately programmable acceleration and deceleration values
• Profile and servo changes on-the-fly
• Advanced PID filter with feedforward and dual biquad filters
• Watchdog timer
• High speed loop rate: 50 ìsec/axis
• Incremental encoder (8 Mcounts/sec) and parallel word encoder (160 Mcounts/sec)
• Dual loop encoder inputs
• Pulse & direction output up to 5 Mpulses/sec
• 6-step (Hall-based) and sinusoidal commutation
• High-speed motion trace for servo tuning diagnostics (up to 40 KB)
• High precision 16-bit DAC output to amplifier
• Real-time breakpoints (2 per axis)
• General purpose digital I/O and analog inputs
• Two directional limit switches, index input, and home indicator per axis
• Includes Pro-Motion, C-Motion and VB-Motion development software

For more detailed information, please contact Performance Motion Devices, Inc. at (781) 674-9860