2.3 Main Features

Control of up to two scan systems

10 μs step period and 20 bit position resolution for the control of deflection units.

Support of up to 16 MHz laser frequency

Speed- and position-dependent control of the laser power^{[Note 1]}

Various drawing shapes such as circular and elliptical arcs.

Text in multiple fonts.

Marking of self-incrementing serial numbers.

Marking of current date and time fields, and date/timestamps.

User-defined dash-dotted line patterns.

Skywriting for highest precision marking.

Bitmap mode with up to 1 MHz pixel frequency and 15 ns resolution

Reliable Marking and processing On The Fly (MOTF), featuring:

• Two quadrature decoders with differential inputs.

  These allow tracking of, e.g., a conveyor belt, both in the direction of travel, and orthogonally to it.

• Buffer for up to 32 workpieces between detection and processing;

• Internal programmable quadrature generators for the simulation of MOTF, and for applications which do not require movement encoders.

Virtual Marking Field (8 time size of regular field).

Logging of up to 24 million measurements from various selectable sources.

• Can be used for system optimization and monitoring.

• Sources include: target and actual scanner positions, laser power and modulation state, etc.

• Sampling can be started and stopped via list or control commands.

Arbitrary number and size of command lists, limited only by the amount of RAM

Flow control commands such as loops, jumps, and sub-routines

Conditional execution of command lists dependent on input signals at I/O ports, or on variables.

Execution of customer specific command lists and .NET programs on the card, which can also access the card‘s processing functions.

Stand-Alone Mode, allowing autonomous execution of pre-defined command lists by the card.