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Control systems, panels, HMIs, interfaces, screens
News Release from: NEE Controls | Subject: Computer engine card
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2003
Machines to benefit from new computer
engine card
NEE Controls are currently designing a new engine card, to 64 bit RISC, that will be plug and play compatible with our existing card and give up to 20 fold increase in computational performance.
NEE Controls are currently designing a new engine card that will be plug and play compatible with our existing card We are moving from 32 bit RISC architecture to 64 bit RISC which includes high performance DSP functionality and floating point co-processor which may come as a surprise to our competitors in view of how we compare
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The benefits to our customers are immense as it will give our already high performance systems a typical 20 fold increase in computational performance.
This means that irrespective of the number of axes or geometry, the limiting components preventing you from machining parts faster will be the drive chain.
Unlike our competitors our specification, for example servo and trajectory update, does not incrementally reduce as you add more axes or the number of commands being processed per second reduces.
By talking to our customers and distributors, as a team, we have identified a number of improvements that will delight our customers.
Some of which are:- * Increasing the available job storage space from 150K standard to 4MB and as an option to a massive 10GB! * Provide an option for data to be stored to a hard drive.
* Use a plug in storage medium to allow upgrades and job data to be changed easily.
* Providing a maintenance free method of storing non volatile job and configuration data.
This removes the need for battery backup as used by many of our competitors.
From it's launch in mid 2003, all AMC controllers from NEE will be fitted with the new engine board as standard.
Existing AMC users will be able to turbo charge their existing systems by simply upgrading to the new engine card.
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