Motion Controller offers EPROM chip and static memory.

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Programmable, point-to-point MAC300 series integrates EPROM chip into controller housing to facilitate safety backup and enable capacity to retrieve, copy, and store all programmed information to flip-flop circuit. Chip allows users to upload, download, edit, and erase control programs multiple times. Able to store 64 programs, product utilizes Commander software to decode encoder signals. Controller provides programming from 1-4 axes and 8-32 inputs and outputs.



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Nyden Corporation's MAC300 Multi-Axis Programmable Controller Offers Improved EPROM Chip (in Version 3.4) and Static Memory for Optimal Design and Program Flexibility.



San Jose, CA - Researchers at Nyden Corporation, the leading designer of worldwide advanced Motion Control Systems, have dramatically improved their best-selling MAC300 series of efficient multi-axis programmable controllers to provide groundbreaking advancements to the movement commands and profiles of stepper and servo motors. The advanced series complements Nyden's existing line of intelligent interpolating controllers already installed and running successfully in thousands of automated machines worldwide, but represents extensive improvement in areas of control circuitry, firmware and software. This advancement gives users of both novice and skilled equipment-designing experience the most efficient programming capability possible when performing integrated communication via stand-alone or on-line handshaking operation.

Enhanced features of the MAC300 series resulted from Nyden's research team designing an EPROM chip to be stored in the controller housing. The chip simplifies Motion Controller Technology and provides cost-effectiveness and versatility in industries encountering extremely hostile or delicate/protective environments running at very high speed or requiring optimal sound-proof smoothness. Equipment industries benefiting from integrating the MAC300 to their systems include developers of: automated processing equipment, robotics, conveyors, aerospace automation, fiber optic measuring devices, optical control systems, rugged semiconductor processing equipment, pick-and-place, food automated systems and fatigue test equipment.

The EPROM chip, labeled internally by Nyden's engineers as version 3.4, facilitates safety backup and the unrestricted capacity to retrieve, copy and store all programmed information to a flip-flop circuit called SRAM. Programmed data will automatically be stored, even in power off state, for as long as engineer's machine is in working condition. Another role of this chip is to enable users to achieve more flexibility in memory design, and to upload, download, edit and erase control programs multiple times with optimal ease.

With the improvement of the series, the MAC300 allows users to store 64 programs, greatly exceeding its earlier counterpart of a 32 stored program limit. Furthermore, the latest firmware simplifies man-machine interfaces with a new software program for commanding the MAC300. Named "the Commander", it decodes encoder signals nearly 100% faster than its preceding program, which limited the user's full range of design flexibility by allowing programs to be downloaded only one at a time.

Additional areas of progress to the latest MAC300 series include: improved Motion and I/O cards designed specifically for lower power consumption, a new noise filtering device added to the motherboard, user-friendly windows interface that helps users write system files at a glance, manual teach mode for efficient test benching, and up-to-date parameters such as timers, I/Os, encoder status and registers displayed on the same window.

Nyden's MAC300 is a popular modular point-to-point Motion Controller that provides unparalleled programming performance from 1 to 4 Axis and 8 to 32 Inputs & Outputs. The controller gives equipment designers the flexibility of adding axes of Motion Cards or Input/Output Cards as design requirements change. Opto-isolated Forward Limit, Reverse Limits, Near Home and Home position inputs are provided for each Motion Axis. In addition, Active High or Low Sensor Logics are selectable, while movement profiles for Trapezoidal, Triangular, and Velocity are easily generated. Additional features and functions include: BASIC-like programming language, separately defining Acceleration and Deceleration Rates, performing simultaneous and independent movements, scalable Encoder Counters up to 8 times the input count, and optional phase inputs of Encoder Feedback, TTL or Phase Differential A / B and Z (Index). Software and users' manual are provided free. Furthermore, flexible Data Registers capable of being used throughout running programs allow designers to run the system at maximum speed updates and with the smoothest precision control possible. Step & Direction Opto-isolated signals, CW & CCW Clocks, and Phase Differential Motor Driver signals are available. The controller can also be daisy-chained up to 16 controllers on one single RS232-Serial Port (also included free) for optimal design flexibility. For high volume design requirements, customized versions are available at a discounted pricing.

Nyden Corporation, located in San Jose, California, is the R&D and sales headquarters for MYCOM, INC., of Kyoto, Japan. The company's unique approach to customer service success is achieved by the support of thousands of engineers and end-users worldwide. A multi-million dollar company, Nyden is proud to carry MYCOM's patented 5-Phase STAR Driver Stepping Systems, a series of low-cost 5-Phase stepper motors and drivers that offer increased true resolution with virtually no low speed resonance problems. The company is also the first to design the world's highest Nano-type 5-Phase Series. The NanoDrive(TM) offers users true resolution of over 500,000 steps per revolution for the highest accuracy and lowest vibration possible. Nyden Corporation supplies a new generation of motion control systems geared for every type of application. We offer 5-phase & 2-phase stepper motors with matching drivers, customized multi-axis programmable stand-alone controllers for steppers and digital servos, ISA and PCI-Bus motion controller cards, and a variety of motion-related accessories. We also work as contractors toward the design of our customers' most fundamental motion control-related application.

For a copy of Nyden's full color motion control engineer's guide, please contact Mr. Roger O'Tate Sullivan, NYDEN's Executive PR & Sales Director at 408-232-7700, or Ms. C.S. Kahnn, GM, for more information. Please look us up at www.NYDEN.com.

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