Hi All - This sounds great, I recently purchased a 5i20 and a 7i30 from Mesa and I am currently doing some testing to get the whole setup working. I can help out with the testing effort if necessary.
Also, as I understand it should be fairly easy to get the 5i20 to work as a Stepper driver using a 7i33 but this requires some effort from Mesa and some from the EMC community. This should be included in the effort, in my opinion. I wonder if using SoftDMC would be more practical rather than the host based setup (Hostmot4, Hostmot8 etc) that why one could just load the required configuration into the FPGA and let that do the work instead of the host CPU. Also, tuning and changing the parameters would be easier that why and would allow one to make changes fairly easily, any thoughts on that ? -ali --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anders Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it looks like we will have several different fpga > configs(m5i20-step/dir > > m5i20-pwm/dir) for the m5i20 in the future, maybe > separate directories > > in cvs should be setup ? > > Several EMC developers are planning on getting m5i20 > boards in the near > future (we've set up a group buy to get the 5-piece > price). At least a > few of them (myself included) have installed the > xilinx development tools > and intend to build some custom FPGA configurations, > which like the rest > of EMC2 will be released under the GPL. That > activity should get started > shortly after the first of the year when we get our > boards. > > When it does, we'll need to work out (probably on > the developers list) > how we're going to manage the different > configurations, and the HAL > driver(s) for them. Your input (and Peter's) is > most welcome. > > Regards, > > John Kasunich > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get > the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief > surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
