Len Shelton wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of the Pluto-P interface? Does it just give more > I/O than the parallel port, or is it somehow faster (I am guessing not)? > >
The Pluto generates step pulses in hardware, which means that it can deliver higher step rates than the simple "software generated steps out the parallel port" approach. It is probably the cheapest hardware step generation option, but that shows. The quality of the board is marginal, connections are to tiny headers, etc. There are other hardware step generation products that are much nicer, but have higher pricetags. For example, the USC from Jon Elson or the AnythingI/O boards from Mesa Electronics. Everybody has different priorities, so we try to support a number of different ways to run a machine. Regards, John Kasunich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
