Aerotech FIBER-OPTIC MOTION BUS HYPERWIRE

Perform at Light Speed.

The fiber-optic, light-based HyperWire® motion control bus from

Aerotech is the fastest, highest-throughput communication bus

in motion control. It enables 20 times the throughput that was

possible with a 100BASE-T Ethernet.

Superior Reliability. Total Flexibility.

With HyperWire, you can count on reliable communication that is

immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and nearly free of

jitter. Plus, the HyperWire protocol operates at 100 kHz — five times

the speed of competing solutions — enabling efficient, multi-input,

multi-output (MIMO) control algorithms you won’t find anywhere else.

Because Hyperwire is flexible, servo motor, galvo scan head and

piezo nanopositioning drives can be added to a HyperWire network

simultaneously.

• Premier solution for distributed multiaxis motion control

• Controls motion at the speed of light

• 20x the throughput of 100BASE-T

Ethernet

• Zero-jitter technology (patent pending)

• 100 kHz cycle time for low-latency,

drive-to-drive distributive control

• Controls up to 32 axes with no

performance loss

• Uses standard glass optical fiber

cables with small form-factor

pluggable (SFP) connectors

• Immune to EMI noise

EMIT GREAT MOTION.

When you choose to build your solution

around HyperWire, you’re making the choice

to outperform your competitors. Fiber optics

are the clear winner in high-performance

systems, and HyperWire is the clear winner in

motion technology.

HyperWire enables high-speed, highly

coordinated motion control by providing

two Gbps communication — 20 times that

of conventional solutions. This enables

high-resolution, 64-bit, double-precision

floating point trajectory values to be sent to

Automation1 drives at astonishingly

high frequencies:

• 20 kHz 64-bit trajectories for servo drives

• 100 kHz 64-bit trajectories for galvo drives

• 40 kHz 64-bit trajectories for piezo drives

A glass optical fiber with small form-factor

pluggable (SFP) connectors ensures your

reliable communication is immune to

electromagnetic interference (EMI).

The HyperWire protocol provides direct driveto-drive communication at 100 kHz, allowing

multiple drives to share information within

a single servo-cycle. The result is efficient,

multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) control

algorithms that cannot be achieved using other

communication buses.

HyperWire also features Aerotech’s patentpending jitter reduction technology, which

reduces communication jitter by a factor of

80. This enables nanometer-level multi-axes

synchronization.