Motion control card
National Aperture Inc.

The National Instruments 7344 motion controller is designed for end-users and machine builders who need to develop powerful applications quickly and easily. NI has optimized the software to help you get your advanced motion profiles up and running as quickly as possible. The 7344 motion controller is used for servo motor control; it is available for PCI, PXI/CompactPCI and IEEE 1394 buses. It also has four general-purpose analog inputs so that you can perform simple data acquisition.

The NI 7344 is a family of advanced technology controllers for all motion applications, bringing full-feature capability for the most sophisticated requirements.These controllers give you blended motion trajectory control and fully coordinated circular, linear, point-to-point, gearing, contouring, and vector space control in either embedded real-time motion operation or host-centric programming environments.

NI designed the 7344 with a high-performance motion controller architecture. The CPU and DSP components operate together to optimize closed-loop control, automation systems control, and motion command processing functions. The onboard CPU uses an embedded real-time operating system that has event-driven multitasking control. With this state-of-the-art approach, several motion control programs and processes can operate simultaneously on the controller, independent of the host PC and with no outside program interaction unless the host program or user configuration initiates it.