Product Description

The 105-090301-01 is a motion control card that is part of the 105 Series by Pacific Scientific. Motion control cards that are PCI-based were first used in PC-based systems. The PCI-bus was among the originals and is still reasonably common in the industry. Nowadays, a standard motion control PCI card comes with various fairly standard features. These features consist of multiple axes. Axes of between 1 to 4 are considered typical while axes between 8 and above are very common. Other features of the 105-090301-01 include a variety of I/PO options, control algorithms like PID, motion generation profile, and alternatives for different network connections.

105 Motion Control Card Series is a common way of performing motion control in different applications. Some of the most common applications of the 105-090301-01 include instrumentation, lab machines, and light manufacturing. The 105-090301-01 is mainly used in these applications because of its unique form factor, which has been driven by the computer platform they operate. This has started to change recently with the introduction of the separate form factor. The 105-090301-01 has basic functionality and also newer and more advanced features such as communication and programmability.

Motion control cards were originally used as PC plugin cards that enabled the use of MS-DOS (standards PC platform). This is still a very appealing solution because the computational performance of the PC has increased significantly while the cost has been falling quickly. The original cards were ISA-based and as time progressed, PCI-bus, EISA and even industrial bus solutions such as VME. With semiconductor technology improvements, smaller PC motherboards became practical. The PC/104 standard was made around the ISA-bus for the purpose of supporting using a PC-based control system in smaller physical spaces.