On 25.01.20 14:41, Alan Condit wrote: > If you are running 6 axis on the $5 chip then you have all the wiring > complexities that we have now.
The $5 chip is ideally suited to a distributed implementation with simplified wiring - power, high speed serial, and a synchronising clock to keep axes aligned in time. Yes, the system is misconfigured if motors can't keep up - reconfigure and fetch another workpiece. There isn't much point yearning for a $5 chip if it handles more than one axis, I figure. An additional $5 chip can run the path smarts, including synchronised motion. Add one more for GUI, disc, and path data retrieval. It is the only one which is not RT, and would run linux. The others would run a small RTOS. With the serial bus and clock being the API, it could start off simple, but soon someone would want to add capability negotiation, I guess. Erik _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
