The RTC®5 control board
provides synchronous, interference-resistant control of scan systems,
lasers and peripheral equipment in real time. It is available as a PC
interface board, as a PCI-Express board or as a PC/104-Plus module.
A high-performance signal processor and the supplied DLL simplify programming under Windows. Software commands are loaded into the RTC®5's freely-configurable list buffer and processed by the DSP. Every 10 µs, appropriate signals are output to or read-out from the scan system, laser and peripheral equipment.
The RTC®5 communicates with scan systems via the new SL2-100 data transfer protocol. This protocol supports 20-bit control signals and thereby a 16x higher positioning resolution compared to the RTC® predecessor board. The RTC®5's processor automatically performs micro-vectorization and image field correction.
For laser control, various programmable laser signals are available for vector and bitmap processing. During execution, the board can provide automatic position/speed/vector-dependent readjustment of laser power.
For SCANLAB scan systems with fully digital servo electronics (
intelliSCAN®, intellicube®, intelliDRILL®, intelliWELD®, powerSCAN i), the RTC®5 also supports all possibilities arising from the iDRIVE® technology.
This includes real-time monitoring and remote diagnosis of key
operational parameters, simulation-assisted process optimization and
the use of different dynamics tunings. The real-time feedback of
scan-system speed can be used for speed-dependent laser control.
Numerous options provide the extensive flexibility system integrators need for meeting diverse customer requirements.
If you combine the RTC®5 board (PCI, PCI-Express) with SCANLAB's laserDESK® software, you can easily create and execute professional laser jobs.
