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Qwerk Overview

• Powerful robotics solution for university and high school educational and hobbyist markets
• High-performance CPU with an excellent I/O feature-set for robotics and mechatronics applications
• Low-cost

Hardware

• 200 MHz ARM9 RISC processor with MMU and hardware floating point unit
• 32 Mbytes SDRAM, 16 Mbytes flash memory
• Latest generation Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA for custom I/O peripherals
• Linux 2.6 installed
• WiFi wireless networking support
• WebCam video input support
• 4 Amp switching power supply, 90% efficient, 7 to 30 Volt input range
• Rugged aluminum enclosure
• 5.1” x 5.8” x 1.3", 11.8 ozs

I/O

• 4 closed-loop 2.0 Amp motor controllers (supports both quadrature encoder and back-EMF “sensorless” feedback)
• 16 RC-servo controllers
• 16 programmable digital I/Os
• 8 12-bit analog inputs
• 2 RS-232 ports
• USB 2.0 host ports for connecting standard USB PC peripherals
• 10/100BT Ethernet port
• Built-in audio amp for playing MP3 and WAV files