2012/3/30 gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com>: > > One mistake in the above Viesturs, in your 40 kilohertz base_thread loop > description, linuxcnc has been able to issue a complete step pulse per loop > iteration for something like 3, maybe 4 years now. It does this by timing > a 2 or 3 microsecond pulse out and clearing the output bit(s) that need to > be cleared while in that particular instance, not by waiting to clear it in > the next iteration of the base_thread.
Thank You for correcting that! Anyway, it does not contradict to my point that software step generation is not as smooth as hardware, which was my main point there. Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users