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EZ Control: Setting the Standard for Ease-Of-Use

The MultiCam EZ Control is a stand-alone board system based on the AMD SC520 microprocessor. The use of 64-bit motion profile algorithms using FPGA technology makes our controller excel in high-speed, continuous motion. 5,000 vector/second sustained calculation and execution rate with 1000 line look ahead capacity. All discrete inputs and outputs are optically isolated. Files are received using a high speed direct Ethernet connection via TCP/IP. Files of unlimited size can be executed and started immediately without waiting for the whole job to be loaded (Drip Feed). The controller can interpret HPGL (Hewlett Packard Graphics Language), M & G codes (EIA 274D), and our native (Cito) code internally. All programming is done off line and is accessed via our DNC system. The system has s-curve, circular and cubic spline interpolation. All systems are fully 3 dimensional.

EZ Control Features

The MultiCam EZ Control used on all of our machines gives MultiCam an advantage over the competition and no other system today can offer so many features:

  • Accepts both G-Code and HPGL files.
  • Keypad interface with hot key control of all major user functions.
  • DNC
  • Real Time Feedrate Override
  • Spindle Speed Control
  • Pause
  • Return To Home
  • Multiple Home Offsets
  • Find Home (Return to 0)
  • Set Home
  • Depth
  • Surface (Z=0)
  • Cut Speed
  • And Many others.
  • Automatic Z axis surfacing with max depth function for gouge avoidance.
  • All systems support simultaneous motion in 3 Axis.
  • Multiple X, Y home or fixture positions
  • Proximity restart
  • Digital Programmable Spindle Speed.
  • Internal diagnostic self test routines
  • X axis Auto Squaring with Dual X axis motor drive.
  • Online Keypad Help
  • Tool Diameter Compensation
  • Stand Alone Controller: No cards to put in your PC.

The Technical Details

  • AMD SC520 microprocessor
  • 32 bit CPU, 133 mhz, 64-bit FPU.
  • 80 bit floating point unit with 64 bit algorithms.
  • 8 Megabytes of RAM - Receive and motion buffers
  • 4 Megabytes of FLASH (3 Mb for user files) - inits, firmware
  • 1 to 4 axes of coordinated motion
  • Linear, circular, & smooth curve interpolation
  • Linear and S-curve accelerations
  • 5,000 vector/second sustained calculation and execution rate
  • Pulse rate output up to 500,000 Hz
  • +/- 134,217,727 maximum count range per axis (28 bit)
  • Built-in self testing
  • On-board voltage monitoring. Brown out protection.
  • Software shut-down for over/under voltage.
  • Stand-alone or Hosted operations
  • On-board Ethernet 10Base-TX
  • Optically Isolated EIA-232 serial port
  • Keypad serial port
  • On-Board EIA-485 (Modbus®) serial port
  • 2 user analog inputs (0 - 6.6 Volts, 12 bits, 100 hz)
  • Easily configurable from host PC
  • Real-time feedrate over-ride
  • Program pausing
  • Interface board with on-board optical isolation for I/O
  • Built-in HP-GL w/3D extensions & auto tool changing
  • CNC (EIA-274) format support
  • Unlimited job file size
  • Expansion Ports for custom daughter boards
  • Additional I/O
  • Additional EIA-232

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