[Emc-developers] Hardinge CHNC retrofit

2018-03-14 Thread Jon Elson
Hello, all, A friend locally has arranged to buy a Hardinge CHNC-I for a manufacturing project. I know a few people here have retrofitted these machines. This one has a General Numerics control, but it seems to have Parker servo amps and MTS brushless motors. I'm guessing these may not be

Re: [Emc-developers] writing new firmware to read yaskawa absolute encoder

2018-03-14 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Rene Hopf wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:53:59 +0100 From: Rene Hopf Reply-To: EMC developers To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] writing new firmware to read

Re: [Emc-developers] writing new firmware to read yaskawa absolute encoder

2018-03-14 Thread Rene Hopf
> On 14. Mar 2018, at 17:54, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > > Typically there would be no issue sending and receiving 7 bit characters with > the PacketUART (just mask bit 7 on RX and set it to the line idle (high) > state on TX ) thats not how uart works, if there is a stop

Re: [Emc-developers] writing new firmware to read yaskawa absolute encoder

2018-03-14 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, andy pugh wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:43:39 + From: andy pugh Reply-To: EMC developers To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] writing new firmware to read

Re: [Emc-developers] writing new firmware to read yaskawa absolute encoder

2018-03-14 Thread andy pugh
On 14 March 2018 at 16:43, andy pugh wrote: > Looking at the VHDL files both UART and pktUART have a 4-bit field for > bit-count, so that rather suggests that there should be a way to set > the number of bits to a value other than 7. Maybe not:

Re: [Emc-developers] writing new firmware to read yaskawa absolute encoder

2018-03-14 Thread andy pugh
On 14 March 2018 at 04:38, Thắng Lê wrote: > unfortunately, channel A use serial interface with ASCII 7bits, i guess i > cant use mesa_uart without modify uart.c. Does pktuart allow me to change > frames? I was looking at hm2_pktuart_setup function, there is an option >