Our next two-day product school is Thursday May 5, 2016 through Friday May 6, 2016. The training will be at our headquarters in Rocklin, CA (near Sacramento).

Galil is proud to introduce the RIO-574x0, its first EtherCAT Slave I/O Controller.  This controller is packed with digital and analog I/O and can greatly expand the I/O capability of an EtherCAT application.  The RIO-574x0 is specifically designed to interface seamlessly with Galil's EtherCAT Master Motion Controller, the DMC-500x0, but it can also be used with any generic EtherCAT Master.  Priced around 1/3rd of the competition, the RIO-574x0 provides a compact, cost-effective I/O controller perfect for any EtherCAT application.

When open-loop stepper performance isn't suitable for an application, an engineer will typically use a closed-loop three-phase brushless motor. This solution can become costly especially if high torque performance is also required. However, now it is possible to use Galil's 2 Phase Brushless (2PB) option with stepper motors to gain the advantages of both stepper motors and closed-loop three-phase brushless motors in one small, easy to use package. Three phase BLM and 2PB are mutually exclusive features.  If you require a mix of the motors, please contact an applications engineer at Gal​il.

Galil has introduced Modbus slave support for the following controllers: the DMC-40x0, DMC-42x0, and DMC-41x3.  These controllers now have the option of being either a Modbus master or slave.  

The DMC-42x0 controller, introduced earlier this year, is the latest addition to the Accelera family. This controller shares most of the firmware features with its counterpart, the DMC-40x0. The DMC-42x0 offers servo update rates as high as 16 kHz with command processing as fast as 40 microseconds. Compared to the prior generation controllers, the DMC-42x0’s update frequency is four times faster with almost double the encoder frequency. The output frequency for steppers, the program memory, and array element space has also been doubled.