USC-3
The USC-3 is the newest generation of USC scanner control cards.
It is size and pin compatible to the USC-2 and the USC-1 and was designed using latest technology. The enhancements compared to the USC-2 are listed here.
General
- USB 1.1 – 2.0 connection to PC
- realtime calculation of laser and scanner signals
- online grid correction with 10 µs cycle time
Laser control
- control signals for almost every type of laser
- optocoupler TTL level/10 mA output current
- 2 x 12 bit analog channels with 2.5 V, 5 V, 10 V output range
- 1 x 8 bit TTL level output port
Scanner control
- X, Y, Z channel
- XY2-100 digital interface
External control
- 6 opto-insulated inputs and outputs
- RS 232 interface
- encoder inputs for marking on the fly
Power
- +5 V / max. 1.6 A
additional features 1 (USC-2 and USC-3)
- pins and size compatible to USC-1
- Ethernet connection to PC
- Flash option on board
- on board configuration setup
- additional scan head connector for controlling up to 3 scan heads
- 2 x 10 bit analog input channels
- additional 10 TTL level inputs and 10 TTL level outputs
- second RS 232 interface
- 6 outputs / 3 inputs TTL level to control stepper motors
- integrated stepper controller for 6 axes, 3 of them with interpolated movement
- additional differential encoder inputs for marking on the fly
- additional marking on the fly modes: buffered mode, rotation mode, analog mode
- pause function
- battery buffered real time clock
- bitmap marking with up to 800 kHz
- advanced control for endless cutting
additional features 2 (USC-3 only)
- pins and size compatible to USC-2
- additional Linux running on dual ARM core
- 1 GB Ethernet
- Micro SD Card with 4 GB Flash Memory
- 256 MB DDR3 RAM
- optimized performance for Flash functions
- scan head interface: XY2-100 and XY-SCAPS
- bidirectional XY-SCAPS interface to SCAPS DSD
- advanced wobble modes (8-shape, double-8-shape, zig-zag and C-shape)