Actel Corporation announced that Sanyo Denki Co. Ltd., a major supplier of factory automation equipment in Japan, has chosen mixed-signal Actel Fusion field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for implementation in its new RA035 position detection device (encoder) for servo motors for industrial applications. Selected for its low power, high accuracy and integration capabilities, the 600,000-gate AFS600 Actel Fusion device serves as the main process circuit, converting signals from the resolver into position data. In addition to a more than 50 percent reduction in power consumption versus alternative solutions, the RA035 reduces hazardous waste and eliminates the need for maintenance by enabling the detection of the absolute motor position without a battery. The Fusion-based RA035 also provides ecological advantages — reducing energy consumption equivalent to 190 tons of CO2 emissions per year.
Sanyo Denki is considering the installation of mixed-signal Fusion FPGAs for future products, following the successful development of the RA035. The company is also evaluating Actel’s ARM processor-enabled FPGAs for their next-generation designs.
About the Sanyo Denki RA035
The RA035 is the resolver-method absolute encoder, which enables output an absolute position information without a battery. The resolution is 131,072 divisions per rotation and the measuring range of multiple rotation is 65,536.
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