Features

• Adopt high-performance DSP and FPGA technology
• Each card can control 8 servo/step motors
• Sampling period is programmable. The minimum interpolation period of eight axes is 400µs. The minimum control period of single-axis motion is 25 µs
• Motion mode: point-to-point motion, linear interpolation, circular interpolation, velocity control, manual pulse generator interface, and electrical gear. Programmable T-curve planning and S-curve planning. On-the-fly update motion control parameters
• All the position and parameter registers are of 32 bits
• Hardware capture home switch and index signal of encoder
• Set following error limit, acceleration limit and output limit, to ensure safe and reliable control
• PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) digital filters with velocity and acceleration feed-forward, and integral limit and output bias compensation.

Technical Specification:

Dedicated Digital Inputs/Outputs:

• Dedicated opto-isolated inputs: 2 for limit switches, 1 for home switch and 1 for driver alarm signal input for each axis.
• Dedicated opto-isolated outputs: 1 for driver enable signal and 1 for reset driver alarm signal for each axis.
• 3 dedicated inputs for protection: Abrupt stop, door stop and logical stop.

Software Characteristics:

• User-defined coordinate system for ease of programming.
• 4-D coordinate motion.
• Continuous interpolation
• Motion command buffer for increasing communication efficiency.
• Programmable event interrupt: External input interrupt, event interrupt and timer interrupt.
• EEPROM for updating Firmware and system parameters.
• Windows98/2000/NT/XP drivers and DLL, C and C++ function library.

Channels of Input/Output:

• 8 channels of output, ±10V analog voltage with16-bit resolution control signal
• 8 channels of quadrature incremental encoder input for the feedback of each axis.
• 4 channels of quadrature incremental encoder input for the auxiliary encoder input.
• Encoder sampling rate up to 8MHz.
• 2 channels of D/A output.
• 8 channels of spindle encoder input with 8-bit resolution and sampling rate up to 8MHz.

Output Range:

• Position; 32-bit (2.15 billions of pulses)
• Velocity: Up to 8 millions of pulses/second for servomotor.
• Acceleration: Up to 16 millions of pulses/second/second.

Uncommitted Digital Input/Output:

• 37 opto-isolated digital inputs
• 2 opto-isolated digital outputs
• Serial IO port for IO expansion up to 128 digital inputs/output (Optional).

Memory Size:

• On-board motion command buffer up to 4K bytes (expandable to 256K bytes) and 8K bytes non-losable RAM for storing parameter

Position Capture:

• 1 channel of probe input for capturing positions of four axes simultaneously
• 1 channel of home hardware capture signal for each axis
• 1 channel index hardware capture signal for each axis

Bus Interface:

• ISA/PC104 bus.
• PCI bus.
• Stand-alone with network control interface (Optional).

Power Consumption:

• +5V, Icc=3A, internal power provided by PC.
• ±12V, Icc=60mA, internal power provided by PC.
• +24V or +12V, Icc=2A, internal power provided by PC.

Operating Environment:

• Operating temperature: 0 - 60°C
• Relative humidity: 5%-90%, non-condensing.

System Software:

• Windows 98/2000/NT/XP drivers and DLL.
• C/C++ function library and demo software for DOS

Mechanical Data:

• Dimensions: 122mm x 185 mm
• General weight: 2

Basic Accessories:

• GT-800-ACC1 I/O board.
• GT-800-ACC2 terminal board.
• GT-800-ACC3 62-pin shielded cable (x2)
• GT-800-ACC4 60-pin flat cable

Ordering Guide

Model	No of Axes	Motor Type	Control Mode	PC Bus Type
GT-800-PG-G	8	Step	Pulse output & Open Loop control	ISA / PC104 or PCI
GT-800-PV-G	8	Servo / Step	Analog output & close loop control	ISA / PC104 or PCI