The MCC 360°-S10 Motion Control Chip is a free-standing microsystem that can control up to three (3) brushed and one (1) brushless motor in torque, position or velocity mode. Measuring just 75 x 45 x 10 mm and weighing 80 grams, it is smaller than conventional units by an order of magnitude.

The MCC 360°-S10 can be used to control distributed systems in applications such as vehicle locomotion, drills, robotic arms and exoskeletons. It is compliant with space missions that have a total dose below 20 krad and maximum mission storage temperature range of of -120 ºC to 70 ºC and an operating temperature of at least -55 ºC to 70 ºC.

Ã…AC Microtec supports a flexible, user-friendly interface with a flash-based FPGA in the core that allows users to employ either Ã…AC supplied software or their own. This MCC supports redundant Controller Aera Network (CAN) busses with CANopen and/or SpaceWire on request.

Bringing MCC to the market with this unique set of performance requires state-of-the-art packaging technology. One of the technologies is the ÅAC proprietary through silicon via (TSV) technology, XiVIA®, used to interface the Actel ProAsic RTPE3000L bare die FPGA.

Aeroflex Gaisler has written a good summary paper presented at MAPLD 2009 conference that describes the performance of the Actel ProAsic FPGA. S. Habinc et. al. "Using a FLASH Based FPGA in a Miniaturized Motion Control Chip".

The MCC module requires an external DC/DC converter.

For more information, download the Motion Control Chip (MCC)  preliminary data sheet (PDF, 230 kB)