[Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
I need to output quadrature stepping from a 6i25. Do I have any options in this regard, other than bit banging or external circuitry? Thank you. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread andy pugh
On 6 July 2013 00:29, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I need to output quadrature stepping from a 6i25. Do you mean 6i25? There are many 6i25 firmwares that output step pulses, those are always FPGA-sourced rather than daughterboard sourced. The standard 7i76 firmware will be

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
-users] 6i25 StepGen I need to output quadrature stepping from a 6i25. Do I have any options in this regard, other than bit banging or external circuitry? Thank you. Sure the Hostmot2 stepgen has 3 output modes: 0 step/dir 1 up/down 2 quadrature Note that the quadrature output rate is 4 times

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 07/05/2013 05:13 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 6 July 2013 00:29, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I need to output quadrature stepping from a 6i25. Do you mean 6i25? There are many 6i25 firmwares that output step pulses, those are always FPGA-sourced rather than daughterboard

Re: [Emc-users] 6i25 StepGen

2013-07-05 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 07/05/2013 05:38 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: ... snip Sure the Hostmot2 stepgen has 3 output modes: 0 step/dir 1 up/down 2 quadrature ... snip Sure enough, I see it now. Parameters - step_type - (u32, RW) Output format, like the step_type modparam to the software stegen(9) component. 0