What is KFLOP? KFLOP is a novel motion controller that takes over the real-time requirements of your system from the host computer by buffering data and running multiple simultaneous threads deterministically. Combined with software architecture that gives you easy access to low-level functions and the ability to create your own front-end GUIs to access our libraries directly or through the .NET interface, the KFLOP motion controller is a powerful solution to your motion control needs.

Over its lifetime, KFLOP has accumulated thousands of satisfied customers around the world who are using the KFLOP for a number of applications. In particular, the CNC community has embraced the KFLOP to run a wide variety of mills, presses, lathes, and other machining equipment.

KFLOP is easily customizable to control a variety of motor types (DC Brush Motors, Brushless Motors, Stepper Motors) as well as other physical devices. KFLOP provides low latency, guaranteed, real-time deterministic response. Because of this, KFLOP relieves a host computer from real-time requirements (i.e. Windows is not real-time, KFLOP is).

KFLOP offers a complete motion control solution to generate Step and Direction pulses for use with 3rd Party Motor Amplifiers. Or connect up to 2 Dynomotion SnapAmps that generate current to up to 25 Amps per axis. Other applications will benefit from connecting our Kanalog I/O expansion board. Both the SnapAmp and Kanalog boards enable the use of Differential Encoders, among other things. For intense stepper motor applications, our KStep may be the perfect add-on to your KFLOP.

DynoMotion's KFLOP card combines a 1.2 GFLOP DSP (TMS320C6722), FPGA, USB, and a PC-based development environment to create a versatile and programmable motion solution. Designed for up to eight-axes control, KFLOP provides advanced control for torque, speed, and position for any mix of stepper, DC brushless, and DC brush motors. KFLOP uses flash memory to store and run multiple-thread compiled C code on a 1.2 GFLOP processor with native 64-bit floating point support for stand-alone operation. A PC connected with a USB cable can be used for control and monitoring.

The included PC-based integrated development environment combines configuration, status, programming, and advanced diagnostic and tuning tools such as Bode plots and signal filtering. GCode support allows coordinated moves between axes. Libraries for controlling the KFLOP card via Visual C++ and Visual Basic are included, as well as a free C compiler. Thread-safe operation allows the IDE to be used in conjunction with a user application for control and debugging.

The KFLOP packs a lot of IO into its 5.0 x 3.5 in package. KFLOP offers 46 Bi-directional I/O bits, shared between dedicated IO and user defined I/O.

Features:

· Real-time motion control that relieves the host computer of that duty

· High Performance 1.2 GFLOP DSP

· 64-bit Double Precision Hardware Math

· All 8 axes are sampled every 90 microseconds

· USB 2.0 Full Speed Host interface (or run standalone)

· 16 MBytes RAM

· Digital I/O

Applications:

Model No.: KELOP, KStep, Kanalog, SnapAmp, Konnect, KNozz.

KELOP 8-Axis Controller Accessories:

KFLOP Software

This package includes the following:

· KMotion Executive Application - Configure/Program/Tune the KFLOP Motion Controller

· KMotionCNC GCode Complete CNC Application (Includes Source code)

· KMotion USB Drivers

· KMotion DSP Firmware

· KMotion Multi-threaded/Multi-Process/Multi-board Driver/Server (Includes Source code)

· KMotion GCode Interpreter Library (Includes Source code)

· KMotion Coordinated Motion and Trajectory Planner Library (Includes Source code)

· KMotion TCC67 C-Compiler (Includes Source code)

· KMotion Microsoft Visual C# Examples (Includes Source code)

· KMotion Microsoft Visual C++ Examples (Includes Source code)

· KMotion Microsoft IronPython Examples (Includes Source code)

· KMotion Microsoft LabVIEW Examples (Includes Source code)

· KMotion Microsoft VB Interface Library and Example (Includes Source code)

· KMotion .NET Interface Library (Includes Source code)

· KMotion On-Line Help

· KMotion Mach3 Plugin