Re: Black box ??

Hoyt,

The bottleneck is running 6 axies simultaneously at up to 2,500,000
steps per second per axis (250 microstep drive turning at 10,000
FS/sec), handling 16 inputs and 16 outputs 1,000 times a second and
so on.

Mariss

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., batwings@i... wrote:
> At 06:45 AM 3/23/02 -0000, you wrote:
> >The "black box" project is what a number of people on this group
> >(myself included) have taken on independently to get around the
> >bottle-neck of having a PC generate step pulses for CNC motor
drives.
>
> What bottlenecK? Using I-LPT, a 486 20 megger will generate over
40,000
> steps sec. Or at least so sez the I-LPT speed testing function
itself.
>
>
> Regards, Hoyt
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