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	request details	Stand-Alone and PC-based  motion control cards
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Motor Technology has launched what it claims to be its newest and most feature packed motion control cards for ISA, PCI and CPCI PC-bus operation. Manufactured by Acroloop, the card’s multitasking kernels can perform motion, non-motion (i.e. calculations for next action), PLC programs, and multi-threaded, simultaneous communications on all communication ports and scan I/O concurrently.

Suitable for 1-16 axes, the new cards offer advanced high-speed motion control by using 32-bit, floating point DSPs, and by implementing a pre-emptive multi-tasker a servo update rate of 250usec for four axes is achieved.

The new cards have the ability to perform floating-point math every DSP cycle, as opposed to the usual control-loop cycle time which is considerably slower. As the cards are not limited to a 5msec calculation time there is no speed loss when performing high accuracy operations. This is particularly important in general automation applications implementing registration, gearing and CAM control, as well as machine tool applications where accurate path control is crucial. 

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