Magellan® Family Motion Control ICs

The Magellan MC58000 and MC55000 motion control ICs from Performance Motion Devices provide advanced motion control for medical, scientific, semiconductor, industrial, and robotic applications. Available in 1, 2, 3, and 4-axis versions, these flexible, programmable devices control brushless DC, DC brush, and step motors.

Magellan motor control ICs are complete motion controllers requiring only an external amplifier to be functional. They are driven by a host using either a parallel bus, SPI, CAN bus 2.0B, or RS232/485 serial. User-selectable profiling modes include S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring, and electronic gearing. PID servo loop compensation utilizes a 32-bit position error and includes velocity and acceleration feedforward. High-performance FOC provides high accuracy and ultra-low noise motor operation.

All Magellan motion control ICs provide a flexible and powerful instruction set to initialize and control motion axes, monitor performance, and synchronize overall machine behavior. Working with Magellan ICs and PMD’s Pro-Motion® development software makes it fast and easy to graph and analyze system performance. At the same time, PMD’s C-Motion® language allows users to develop their own applications using C/C++ or .NET languages.

Features

• Positioning ICs for DC brush, step, and brushless DC motor control
• Available in a 1 to 4-axis package
• S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring, and electronic gearing profiles
• Serial RS232/485, parallel, CAN bus, and SPI communications
• Advanced PID control filter with velocity and acceleration feedforward
• High-performance current control and PWM signal generation
• Velocity, position, and acceleration changes on the fly
• Field oriented control
• High speed (up to 5 Mpulses/sec) pulse and direction output
• Incremental encoder quadrature input (up to 25 Mcounts/sec)
• Programmable loop time to 50 μsec
• Dedicated motion trace function for performance optimization
• Overcurrent, overvoltage, and overtemperature monitoring
• Two directional limit switches, index input, and home indicator per axis
• Axis settled indicator, tracking window, and automatic motion error detection
• Programmable dual biquad filters
• Programmable acceleration and deceleration values
• Two directional limit switches, high-speed index, and home inputs per axis
• Dual loop encoder input
• 3.3 V operation, packaged in 144- or 100-pin TQFP

Applications

• Multi-axis motion control boards for DC brush, brushless DC, or stepper motors using PMD’s on-card Atlas® digital amplifiers or off-card amplifiers
• XYZ gantry controls
• Indexer controls
• Automation control for medical and industrial
• DC motor drivers, PWM motor drivers, stepper motor drivers