Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] More EMC Conversations w/ Controller Boards

Jack,

For me the STG pretty much worked right out of the box,
thanks to Paul's BDI. At the time Linux was totally new to me.

We did have a problem with the newer board, but a couple
lines of code fixed it.

Others have had some problems, but they were hardware
compatibility issues I think. They were solved.

I do wish the STG had a PCI solution. The old boxes we need
to plug in an ISA card are getting fewer and fewer. I am increasingly
reluctant to buy any kind of ISA hardware. Industrial PCs will
still use it for a while, but they are very expensive.

Next installation I might try Jon Elson's parallel port interface
if he willl help with any debugging... and I think he would.

Les

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From: <jmw@...>
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Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 5:41 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] More EMC Conversations w/ Controller Boards


> From previous posts I get the idea that servo motion control boards
> like Servo-to-Go, Pico and similar boards are what lab people would
> call a multi-i/o board: some DAC's, digital IO capabilities,
> interrupts and clock-timers. (OK, not every I/O board has quadrature
> decoders, but some have 24-bit counters which is getting close.)
>
> Think it would be possible for a mere mortal to get EMC to
> communicate with a MIO board over the ISA or PCI bus? I guess the STG
> team managed to do it ... The thing is, these boards turn up cheap
> once they're a generation down.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jack
>