Axel Systems - Hardware for CMM machines

	Manual CMMs
	Designed to interface industry-standard rotary shaft encoders and linear scales to PC-compatible computers, the DEVA001 incremental encoder interface card makes it possible to measure position, velocity and acceleration in such wide-ranging applications as robotics, co-ordinate measuring machines and CNC machine tools. Based on a custom-designed ASIC quadrature counter, the DEVA001 interface card provides three independent encoder channels each with a 32-bit position counter with a maximum count rate of 10MHz. The DEVA001 also contains a wealth of synchronisation and triggering facilities which enables both OEMs and end-users to create powerful and highly flexible PC-based measurement systems.

	The ISA Encoder Interface type A164 is designed to allow easy interfacing of incremental encoders (rotary or linear) to any PC- compatible computer or embedded system with 8 or 16 bit ISA bus expansion slots. Each card has three 24- bit counters, taking the digital (differential or TTL level) encoder output directly. A touch probe input provides hardware latching of critical measurement signals. Scale or encoder marker pulses are also accommodated.

	The PCI Encoder Interface type A200 is designed to allow easy interfacing of incremental encoders (rotary or linear) to any PC- compatible computer or embedded system with PCI bus expansion slots. Each card has three 24- bit counters, taking the digital (differential or TTL level) encoder output directly. A touch probe input provides hardware latching of critical measurement signals. Touch probe debounce period is programmable. Scale or encoder marker pulses and encoder error signals are also accommodated. Interrupts are available for data ready or RTC. The card occupies one PCI slot.
	CNC CMMs
	The UCC1 interface
	The UCC1 interface