NYCETALK, MACHINE CONTROL TOOL

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NYCETALK, MACHINE CONTROL TOOL
15 July 2001 - Nyquist Industrial Control

Nyquist introduces the NYCeTalk machine control tool and command language. Providing faster design cycles for new and retrofitted OEM machines, NYCeTalk can significantly reduce development time. This is an important factor in time-to-market, a key issue for machine builders who want to keep ahead of their competition.

Targeted at OEM machine builders NYCe Talk provides a high level of software reusability. Leading to improved quality of the end product and improved productivity of expensive and scarce application engineers.

Machine application programmers typically develop their machine applications using only a set of C libraries and header files. This often requires a great deal of time and effort to make the fully functional, multi-threaded applications which are needed for today's machines.

To help make this task easier, Nyquist now offers NYCeTalk, a user friendly machine control tool and accompanying programming language. No complex compiling and linking is needed. Application jobs are entered in simple NYCeTalk commands and interpreted by the machine controller. NYCeTalk can be used to monitor and debug the jobs as they are being executed. At the same time it provides an instant Human Machine Interface for your machine. The NYCeTalk language may be easily extended to include customer-defined commands. This increases the customers' flexibility in creating NYCeTalk application jobs.

The goal of a NYCeTalk user is to define and control a complete machine from one point of view and with one tool. The high level NYCeTalk commands are designed to control machines that contain one or more different mechanisms. Each mechanism may contain a set of servo axes and I/O configurations.

Commands are provided for control of single, multiple and kinematically coupled axes that integrate an array of motion, I/O and control functionality. 3 or 6 degrees of freedom trajectory generation enables the creation of lines and circles in 3D space. Besides typical NYCeTalk commands like 'MoveRobot' also the G-code command set is supported.

NYCeTalk is part of the standard Nyquist NYCeLauncher Toolkit and available for all NYCe3000 components.

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About: Nyquist Industrial Control
Nyquist has a long and rich history. A history that goes back to the beginning of the early seventies, when the company was still part of Philips. Since then, the organisation has played a pioneering role in the field of high-quality Motion Control systems, VME and PLC machine control platforms.

The foundations for the present-day company Nyquist Industrial Control were paved in the seventies. This happened when the first standardised servo system was developed, initially created for Philips' internal machine building. This led to a large international installed base, both within and outside of our own organisation. For instance, the doors of the Dutch Railways' trains are still fitted with VME-based control systems from Nyquist. And then just think of all the automatically opening bridges, traction systems, trams, machines for making glass moulds, embroidering machinery, pastry-making machines, ships' terminals, incinerators and water purification plants.

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