International Rectifier and XILINX Announce Delivery of High Performance Solution For Motor Control

International Rectifier and Xilinx announced the immediate availability of the Accelerator^TM motor control design platform, based on the low-cost Xilinx Spartan-IIE FPGA and International Rectifier motion control mixed signal chip set.

The Accelerator platform provides motor designers a low-cost, re-configurable signal processing architecture using parallel processing and soft peripherals that achieves unmatched motor control performance with feedback control loop bandwidth up to 5kHz.

By providing both the high bandwidth needed for torque control and the flexibility for many types of motion peripherals, the Accelerator platform is also ideal for automotive drivetrain controls, automated assembly, precision material handling and more.

Price and Availability

The Accelerator design platform is available now. Pricing for the development system is US $9,500 per unit. The part number is IRACS201, which includes all hardware for a 1.5kW servo amp, pre-loaded code into XC18V02 EEPROM targeted for the Spartan IIE-300, and Windows-based configuration software called ServoDesigner. The actual object code (EXO format) and source code (Verilog) are licensed separately from IR.