Prodigy^® Motion Control Card offers OEM machine designers access to the powerful features of the Magellan™ chip set.

Prodigy^® Motion Control Card improves application flexibility with powerful new feature set including direct amplifier commutation signals for multi-axis and multiple motor types.

Lincoln, MA — The Prodigy^® Motion Cards from Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD), designed with PMD’s advanced Magellan™ Motion Control IC, provide board level, multi-axis motion control for DC brush, brushless DC, step, and microstepping motors. In addition to trace capture, Prodigy cards provide high-performance motion control features including trajectory generation, servo loop closure, quadrature signal input, motor output signal generation, on-the-fly changes, commutation, and much more.

Key Updated Features Include...

• 4 axes motor control with direct amplifier commutation signals for brushless DC and microstepping motors, allowing the designers to use lower cost amplifiers.
   
• Servo loop rates of up to 50 µSec/Axis (20 kHz).
  
  
• Quadrature encoder rates up to 8 Mcount/Sec.

Prodigy cards are available in PCI and PC/104 configurations, and provide 1, 2, 3, or 4 axes of control. Prodigy-PCI and Prodigy-PC/104 utilize high density logic circuitry to provide cost-effective, high-performance motion control functions programmed in C/C++ or Visual Basic language. The cards accept input parameters such as position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk from the host, and generate a corresponding trajectory. Instantaneous on-the-fly changes can be sent by the user, and external signal inputs can be used to program automatic profile changes.

Prodigy-PCI and Prodigy-PC/104 are available now. Prices start at $380 in OEM quantities.

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