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Oct 7, 2004 – Machine builders and OEMs can now use the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical development environment to create customised motion controllers for any platform with NI SoftMotion technology. The new NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW deploys a variety of motion control functions and custom algorithms to any hardware platform based on machine builders’ specific application requirements, price constraints and performance needs.

Using the NI SoftMotion Development Module, machine builders and OEMs can choose their motion control platforms, including NI reconfigurable I/O hardware, PCI/PXI multifunction data acquisition (DAQ) devices and Compact FieldPoint embedded control systems, to improve machine performance or lower their system costs. The software includes functions for trajectory generation, spline interpolation, position and velocity PID control and encoder implementation in the LabVIEW Real-Time Module and the LabVIEW FPGA Module. With the NI SoftMotion Development Module, machine builders and OEMs can create flexible motion control solutions that they can redesign to accommodate variations in motion control algorithms at run time.

With the company’s new CompactRIO embedded control system and LabVIEW FPGA Module, machine builders and OEMs can use the NI SoftMotion Development Module to achieve servo updates as fast as 5 µs or 200 kHz for high-precision semiconductor processes such as etching, metrology, dicing, bonding or lithography. They can also reduce system costs by deploying their NI SoftMotion Development Module functions to the new, next-generation NI M Series DAQ devices, which deliver breakthrough improvements in accuracy, faster sampling rates, more I/O channels and a lower cost per I/O channel. This cost-effective motion control solution is ideal for packaging and material handling applications.

Whether they are developing an assembly system with in-line vehicle sequencing for the automotive industry or designing a lithography machine for the semiconductor industry, machine builders and OEMs can use the NI SoftMotion Development Module to create customised and reliable machine controllers.

Machine builders and OEMs can use NI SoftMotion software with the LabVIEW 7.1 graphical development environment to create their custom motion control solutions.

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