Re: Pluto-P

So it IS a hardware step pulse generator. Great!

So I assume it receives its commands in 8-bit parallel?? Which would be
faster than serial. 

But could it be made to run serial?

>Len

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Radek [mailto:chris@...] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:07 AM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Pluto-P

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:57:11AM -0600, Len Shelton wrote:
> What exactly is the purpose of the Pluto-P interface? Does it just give
more
> I/O than the parallel port, or is it somehow faster (I am guessing not)?

http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/pluto_servo.9.html
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/pluto_step.9.html

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