So it IS a hardware step pulse generator. Great! So I assume it receives its commands in 8-bit parallel?? Which would be faster than serial.
But could it be made to run serial? >Len -----Original Message----- From: Chris Radek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:07 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Pluto-P On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:57:11AM -0600, 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)? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/pluto_servo.9.html http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/pluto_step.9.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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