Run physical signal to two pins? Encoder & gpio. Encoder wont care about extra twiddling at start (and you're going to reset its counter anyway). Gpio (uart) doesn't care if you ignore its output later.
SMD On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Rudy du Preez <r...@asmsa.co.za> wrote: > I now realize that the A phase cannot go through the counter in the > firmware > of the 6i25+7i77 setup and then read serial data. > > Would it be easier to use a 5i20 + 7i33 combination. Then modify the > firmware so under some control input bit the A phase is first passed > through > by-passing the counter, so that bit-banging can be done for the first 8 > bytes to get the absolute offset. > > Another way suggested by Marius is to use a differential multiplexer on the > encoder line before it gets to the 7i77, then first pass the A phase to a > gpio input and then switch to the encoder input. > > Any more ideas? > > Rudy > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: > 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT > 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT > 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
