Firewire provides robust motion control: News from Agile Systems

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Agile Systems is shipping high performance IEEE1394 Firewire interfaces with its MAX 3000 series of integrated multi-axis controller/amplifiers. The Firewire interface option includes additional banks of optoisolated I/O to enable full motion and I/O integration. Vision systems can coexist on the same IEEE1394 network.

The IEEE1394 Firewire interface allows an open architecture, robust, high speed and deterministic network solution for the MAX 3000 product family.

The MAX 3040 includes a high-performance DSP motion and I/O controller integrated with Agile's core digitalPower blocks providing the most compact distributed motion control solution available today (four 400W integrated amplifiers in a 3 x 5in form factor).

Agile Systems has six patents in place and several more pending.

The MAX 3000 platform is used by OEMs in robotics, semiconductor automation and high performance machinery.

'We started with Firewire in 1997, the first to do so for motion control.

The availability of Firewire on our high performance MAX 3000 modules coupled with our advanced PVT modes gives machine designers a powerful solution', says Kevin Steele, GM of Robotics and Automation for Agile.

'With IEEE1394b (Firewire 2) solutions later this year, OEMs can take advantage of standard CAT 5 cabling or plastic optical fibre solutions for additional noise immunity and electrical isolation'.

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News Release from: Agile Systems Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 July 2002

Firewire provides robust motion control

Agile Systems is shipping high performance IEEE1394 Firewire interfaces with its MAX 3000 series of integrated multi-axis controller/amplifiers.

Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news the week it was announced. . It’s free!

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News Release from: Agile Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 July 2002