control and versatility RTC®5 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 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 ìs, 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®4 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 ®), the RTC®5 also supports all possibilities arising from the iDRIVE ® technology. This includes real-time monitoring and remote diagnosis of key operational parameters, simulationassisted 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.

RTC®5 System integration ð­ PCI bus interface or PC/104-Plus interface ð­ Any number of RTC®5 PCI boards in one PC (up to four PC/104-Plus modules in a stack) ð­ Master/slave synchronization ð­ Drivers for (32-bit) Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 (and Windows XP Embedded for RTC®5 PC/104-Plus) ð­ Multi threading, multi processing Scan system control ð­ SL2-100 transfer protocol (control of scan systems per XY2-100 transfer protocol via an optional converter) ð­ 20-bit positioning resolution ð­ Virtual processing field (24 bit) ð­ 10 ìs output period ð­ Galvanically isolated signals ð­ Scan-system...