Detailed Product Description

Introduction:

The ENC7480 is a PCI plug-and-play board that provides inputs and decoding for up to four incremental quadrature encoders or linear scales. In addition, the ENC7480-IO has 32 general inputs and 32 general outputs.

Incremental quadrature encoders and linear scales are used to provide feedback signals from motors and actuators, that is, to count rotations & linear movements and convert the physical movement into a series of electrical signals. These signals are sent to the computer which then decides whether or not to trigger signals that control the motors movement and what those control signals should be. The ENC7480/ENC7480-IO is the link between up to four incremental quadrature encoders and the computer. They can be used for a wide range of measurement and motion control applications, such as CNC machines, robotics and co-ordinate measuring machines.

The features of the ENC7480/ENC7480-IO are made accessible by using the functions provided in the ENC7480.dll (for Windows 95/98/2000/XP). Enc7480 Demo assists the measurement system developer in verifying and testing hardware systems.

Features:

        High speed 32-bit PCI Bus, plug-and-play

        4 encoder inputs

        Quadrature Encoder input signal can be up to 6.5MHz (×4)

        Quadrature Encoder multiplier (×1, ×2, ×4)

        Zero input for each encoder channel

        32 general inputs

        32 general outputs (initial level settable)

        Counters can be read on the fly or be captured by triggers to be read later.

        Two trigger/capture signals optional (TR1,TR2)

        Driver and DLL supports for Windows 95/98/2000/XP

        Support VB/VC/LabVIEW programming tools

        ENC7480 demo software for verifying and testing hardware systems

See its manual for more information, and you can download the manual from the website of Leadshine.