PMD Announces Availability of Portescap BLDC Developer Kit
ION®/CME N-Series Digital Drives are compact, PCB-mountable modules that provide high performance motion control, network connectivity, and power amplification for Brushless DC, DC Brush, and step motors. N-Series are the only drives in the market that deliver up to 1KW of power and come in a tiny footprint (37.6mm x 37.6mm x 16.8mm) with an enclosed package that protects the electronics inside. Competitors offer solutions without enclosures, leaving the sensitive internal electronics exposed to EMI and environmental hazards. Three power output levels are available - 75, 350, and 1,000 watts and communication options include Ethernet, CAN, RS232, RS485, and SPI (Serial Peripheral Interconnect). N-Series IONs are fully programmable and perform profile generation, PID servo compensation, direct encoder input, field-oriented control, and many other motion control functions. These miniature devices are ideal for creating embedded control solutions in medical, mobile, scientific, semiconductor, and other automation applications.
ION®/CME N-Series Digital Drives are compact, PCB-mountable versions of PMD’s ION Digital Drive family that provide high-performance motion control, network connectivity and amplification. The small enclosed package - 37.6mm x 37.6mm x 16.8mm - protects internal electronics from environmental hazards. Three power output levels are available - 75, 350, and 1,000 Watts. All IONs can drive DC Brush, Brushless DC and step motors, and are ideal for medical, mobile, scientific, semiconductor, and other automation applications.
ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives provide high power density in a patented ultra-rugged form factor. They perform profile generation, servo compensation, stall detection, field oriented control, digital torque control and many other motion control functions. Additional features include Ethernet, CAN, serial, and SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) communications.
N-Series IONs represent a new paradigm for building application specific controllers. Instead of designing boards from the ground up with dozens or hundreds of IC components, plug and play N-Series ION modules allow fully functional custom boards to be designed and produced in weeks instead of months or even years.
Working with PMD’s powerful Pro-Motion® Windows based GUI makes it easy to graph and analyze motion control performance, while the onboard C-Motion® Engine allows users to directly run their application on the N-Series ION. Most importantly, at the core of every ION/CME N-Series Digital Drive is a PMD Magellan Motion Control IC, guaranteeing software compatibility and ensuring performance and reliability second to none.
There are 36 different ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives in all, consisting of the combinations of four motor types (step motor, Brushless DC, DC Brush, Multi-Motor), three host interfaces (Serial, CAN/SPI, Ethernet), and three power levels (low, medium, high). Note that multi-motor units allow the motor type, either Brushless DC, DC Brush, or step motor, to be user programmed.
The following table shows the available N-Series ION part numbers:
PMD Developer Kits and easy to use development tools make set-up, tuning, optimizing, and building your motion control application fast and easy.
The following ION/CME N-Series Digital Drive Developer Kits are fully assembled and installed with a multi-motor ION unit type. These various P/Ns represent three different host interface types (serial, CAN/SPI, Ethernet) and three different power levels (low, medum, high):
There may be occasions where it is preferable for the user to assemble an N-Series ION developer kit themselves. The main advantage of this is that it allows developer kit setups to be created with N-Series IONs other than the multi-motor type.
To facilitate this three non pre-assembled component developer kits are available.
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