austriamicrosystems, a global designer and
manufacturer of high-performance analog integrated circuits (ICs), has announced
the offering of a free software development kit (SDK) for its magnetic rotary
encoder IC family.austriamicrosystems, a global designer and
manufacturer of high-performance analog integrated circuits (ICs), has announced
the offering of a free software development kit (SDK) for its magnetic rotary
encoder IC family.
"Delivering on its strategy to provide customers with industry-leading products, performance excellence and first-class support, austriamicrosystems is offering the easy-to-use SDK to help users develop customized software quickly and easily for applications developed with austriamicrosystems' family of magnetic rotary encoder Ics," said Josef Janisch, Product Manager for magnetic rotary encoder products. The SDK is designed to enable customers to create powerful demonstrators, as well as application software tailored to their production test and product configuration requirements within the shortest possible time frame.
"We know how important it is to provide good customer support," said Janisch. "That is why we decided to provide a free software development kit to help our customers speed up their development cycles. This powerful tool will enable them to visualize the functions of their AS5000-based magnetic rotary encoder ICs in a very simple way and thus develop application software within the shortest time. Now the design engineer has no need to worry about protocols and communication between the product and his development environment. That is all handled by the tools we provide."
The SDK is based on a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) that can be embedded in many software platforms, including Microsoft Visual Studio (C#, C/C++, Visual Basic), Borland C++ Builder, or LabView. A number of application examples and help files make the SDK very user friendly.
"The software development kit supports the entire austriamicrosystems magnetic encoder IC family. These ICs, which sense rotary positions via a small rotating magnet without contact, are ideally suited to harsh environments since they are impervious to wear," said Janisch. "This makes them ideal for automotive, industrial and many consumer applications. The family includes the AS5035, an 8-bit resolution device with an incremental output, 10-bit devices with digital and analog outputs (the AS5040 and AS5043 respectively), and the AS5045, a 12-bit device with an absolute digital output.
The software development kit can be downloaded for free from the austriamicrosystems website at www.austriamicrosystems.com/03products/20_rotary_encoders.htm.
For more information contact:
austriamicrosystems AG
Raleigh, NC 27615
919-676-5292
E-mail: communications@austriamicrosystems.com