PMAC2 PCI
Product Description:

| This board can be used installed in an PCI bus host computer or used as a stand-alone motion controller. When combined with the appropriate accessory ACC-8x, it provides four or eight axes of stepper, digital PWM and analog ±10V amplifier command signals. This motion controller is composed of two boards plugged together: the base board and the CPU piggy-back board. The CPU board can be replaced eventually by a faster type or by the more advanced Turbo CPU type. |
Hardware Features:

40 MHz DSP563xx CPU (Option 5AF)
128k x 24 internal zero-wait-state SRAM
Latest released firmware version.
RS-232 serial interface, 33 MHz PCI bus interface
4 channels axis interface circuitry, each including:
- 3 output command signal sets, configurable as either:
- 2 serial data streams to external DACs, 1
pulse-&-direction
- 3 PWM top-and-bottom pairs
- 3-channel (AB quad with index) differential/single-ended
encoder input
- 9 input flags, 2 output flags
- Interface to 2 external serial ADCs, 8 to 18 bits
2 channels supplemental interface circuitry, each including:
- 2-channel (AB quad)differential/single-ended encoder
input
- 1 output command signal set configurable as
pulse-and-
direction or PWM top-and-bottom pair
Display, muxed I/O, direct I/O interface ports
Buffered expansion port
Clock crystal with +/-100 ppm accuracy
PID/notch/feedforward servo algorithms
1-year warranty from date of shipment
Software Features:
Trajectory Generation Features
- Linear interpolation mode with S-curve accel/decel
- Circular interpolation mode with S-curve accel/decel
- Rapid point-to-point move mode
- Cubic B-spline interpolation mode
- Cubic Hermite-spline (PVT) interpolation mode
- Automatic move-until-trigger functions with hardware capture
- Interactive jog moves
- Optional multi-move lookahead for velocity and acceleration limiting
Servo Features
- Standard digital PID feedback filter
- Velocity, acceleration, and friction feedforward
- 2nd-order notch/low-pass filter
- Gains changeable at any time
- Programmable input, integrator, and output limits
- Optional 35-term "pole-placement" servo filter
Commutation Features
- Sinusoidal commutation of AC servo motors
- Vector control of AC induction motors
- Digital current-loop closure with direct PWM output (PMAC2)
Compensation Features
- Position compensation tables (1D & 2D)
- Torque compensation tables
- Backlash compensation
- Tool radius compensation
Safety Features
- Hardware and software overtravel limits
- Amplifier enable/fault handshaking
- Following error limits
- Integrated current limit
- Encoder loss detection (some versions)
- Watchdog timer
- Program and communications checksums
Computational Features
- Real-time multi-tasking operating system
- 48-bit floating-point math for user programs
- Trigonometric and transcendental functions
- Automatic type-matching of different variable types
Feedback sensor types that can be processed
- Digital quadrature encoders
- Sinusoidal encoders, interferometers
- Resolvers
- Potentiometers
- LVDTs, RVDTs
- Parallel-format encoders, interferometers
- MLDTs
- Serial absolute encoders (e.g. SSI)
Coordination and Master/Slave Features
- User-defined coordinate systems for automatic coordination of axes
- Separate coordinate systems for independent motion of axes
- Multi-motor axis support (e.g. gantries)
- Dynamic axis transformations (e.g. offsets, rotations, mirroring)
- Electronic gearing (no programming required)
- Electronic cams with programmable profiles
Motion Program Features
- High-level programming language
- Automatic sequenced execution of moves
- Calculations and I/O synchronous to motion
- Axes programmed in user engineering units
- Motion values as constants or expressions
- Automatic coordination of multiple axes
- Ability to execute G-code programs
PLC Program Features
- Execution asynchronous to programmed motion
- I/O control as in hardware PLC
- Executive functions for standalone applications
- Safety and status monitoring
- Servo gain scheduling
- Data reporting functions
- Access to all registers in controller








