On Sat, 7 Mar 2020, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 13:23:45 -0300
From: Leonardo Marsaglia <ldmarsag...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
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To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 6i24 + 7i44 configuration
What model 6I24 do you have?
6i24-25
http://freeby.mesanet.com/5i24_25r.zip
El s??b., 7 mar. 2020 a las 13:20, Peter C. Wallace (<p...@mesanet.com>)
escribi??:
On Sat, 7 Mar 2020, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:
> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 13:02:11 -0300
> From: Leonardo Marsaglia <ldmarsag...@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 6i24 + 7i44 configuration
>
> Hello Peter,
>
> Thanks for the answer as always. I'll try to change P4 to P1 because in
the
> way I'm mounting the boards that's the simpler and less painful solution
to
> plug the 7i52s and 7i44.
What model 6I24 do you have?
>
> As you can see in the picture, the 7i52s is on the top plate, and the
7i44
> is placed on the bottom plate next to the motherboard. On the top plate
I'm
> mounting also the 7i70 and 7i71. So to reach the 7i52s the best for me is
> to use the P1 connector. I should have thought about this before
anyway...
>
> El s????b., 7 mar. 2020 a las 12:48, Peter C. Wallace (<p...@mesanet.com>)
> escribi????:
>
>> On Sat, 7 Mar 2020, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 10:20:52 -0300
>>> From: Leonardo Marsaglia <ldmarsag...@gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
>>> <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <
emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 6i24 + 7i44 configuration
>>>
>>> Hello again to all,
>>
>>> I'm reviving this discussion because I started attempting to configure
my
>>> setup to finally mount it on the machine (once it all works well off
>>> course).
>>>
>>> Basically I'm using the 6i24 connected to a 7i52s for step output and
to
>>> read 1 encoder. Here's where I have the first doubts, mostly because I
>>> don't do this too often.
>>>
>>> If I want to use the full 6 stepgens and 6 encoder inputs of the
bitfile
>>> Peter made for my 6i24 I see on the dmesg that the encoder and stepens
are
>>> distributed between P3 and P4 of the board. Is this ok? Because the
7i52s
>>> as you know only has one 50 pin flat cable port. I'm not planning to
use
>>> that much encoders and steppers but this guides me to the next
question.
>>
>> Thats because you are using a SVSTSS12_12_8_7I52SX2 configuration setup
>> for
>> two 7I52S on P4 and P3 (if you just have 1 7I52S, only enable 6 stepgens
>> and 6 encoders and the P3 connector will revert to just GPIO)
>>
>>
>>> Is there an easy way to see the correspondence between the pins on the
>> 6i24
>>> and the ones on the 7i52s ? Because if I use only 3 stepgens and 1
encoder
>>> I can see they are all in the P4 connector and I have also some free
I/Os
>>> on that connector too but I don't know how to identify them on the
7i52s
>>> other than start probing them one by one.
>>
>> You can look at the pinout file and the 7I52S manual but its simpler
than
>> that, the stepgens and encoders are simply in the 7I52S manual order,
that
>> is
>> encoders 0..5 match the manual exactly, and Step0 = TX0A, Dir0 =TX0B,
Step1
>> =TX1A, Dir1=TX1B etc etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Besides that, I need to modify the PIN file since I need the 7i52s to
be
>>> plugged to P1 connector of the 6i24 (Notice that the 6i24 has three
ports
>>> labelled P1, P3, P4). I'm downloading Xilinx ISE 14.7 to try to modify
the
>>> original file that Peter made for me.
>>
>> You can do this but I'm not sure why you would care about the 6I24
>> connector order.
>>
>>> Well, that's all for now, if you can help me a little bit I surely can
>> make
>>> all this work this weekend hopefully. I also need to try the 7i44 but I
>>> need to understand this first.
>>>
>>> Thanks as always for your help and patience!
>>
>> The 7I44 connects to P1, thats about it
>>
>>>
>>
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