Re: EMC with intelligent stepper controllers

["Steve Carlisle" <quatsein-at-island.net>]

John, the G-code(rs-274) is an industry standard machine control
language. You would have to build an interpeter  that converts
g-code to Simple-Step command language.

Steve Carlisle

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> From: John Guenther <jguenthe-at-nafis.fp.trw.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
> Subject: EMC with intelligent stepper controllers
> Date: Monday, October 09, 2000 11:24 AM
> 
> 
> I have a question for this list.  If I wanted EMC to work with an
> intelligent stepper controller, one that requires commands such as
> X1M1000 to move the X axis 1000 steps, where would that type of driver
> need to be implemented in EMC?  Does that require a replacement for
> steppermod.o or freqmod.o or is there some place else that would need to
> be changed?
> 
> I would like to use the SimpleStep 2000 boards for my CNC conversion
> with EMC even if I have to write a new driver for EMC.
> 
> John Guenther
>