Re: EMC with intelligent stepper controllers

["Matt Shaver" <mshaver-at-erols.com>]

> From: John Guenther <jguenthe-at-nafis.fp.trw.com>
> 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 think you need to modify steppermod to or freqmod to send the motion
commands out to the serial port, rather than toggling bits on the parallel
port. If you tell the board to step X 1000 times, how does it know the step
rate? Is there some way to sync the different axis boards?

Matt