Mesa Serial Connection / GPIO question
- BishopCNC15
- Offline
- New Member
-
Less
More
- Posts: 9
- Thank you received: 0
09 Jan 2017 02:42 #85498
by BishopCNC15
Mesa Serial Connection / GPIO question was created by BishopCNC15
Hi,
First question: I read in the Mesa documentation that the FPGA is able to create a serial connection using the GPIO pins. I have a 5i23. I'd like to make an I2C or SPI connection to an analog to digital converter I have. My end goal is to use this to control temperature on a 3D printer nozzle and heat bed. How can I set this up in pncconf / HAL?
Second question: If I select SVST8_4 (8 encoder, 8 pwm, 4 stepper) and reduce the number of steppers to zero in pncconf, will they return to being GPIO? I don't have any stepper motors to use but I'd like the extra GPIO. Just want to make sure a custom bit file isn't needed for that.
Final question: This is kind of an afterthought - can I just write something in C++ or python (or anything really) to directly control the 5i23's pins?
Thanks!
First question: I read in the Mesa documentation that the FPGA is able to create a serial connection using the GPIO pins. I have a 5i23. I'd like to make an I2C or SPI connection to an analog to digital converter I have. My end goal is to use this to control temperature on a 3D printer nozzle and heat bed. How can I set this up in pncconf / HAL?
Second question: If I select SVST8_4 (8 encoder, 8 pwm, 4 stepper) and reduce the number of steppers to zero in pncconf, will they return to being GPIO? I don't have any stepper motors to use but I'd like the extra GPIO. Just want to make sure a custom bit file isn't needed for that.
Final question: This is kind of an afterthought - can I just write something in C++ or python (or anything really) to directly control the 5i23's pins?
Thanks!
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
17 Jan 2017 13:25 #85915
by andypugh
Replied by andypugh on topic Mesa Serial Connection / GPIO question
Yes, unused pins become GPIO.
You can write a HAL component that uses GPIO to directly drive pins. There is an example here
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master...onents/max31855.comp
which pin-bangs GPIO to read a temperature sensor chip.
It is written using this pre-processor code:
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/hal/comp.html
This has a max data rate of no more than 1kHz (probably half that, actually) because it runs in the servo thread.
For higher data rates you could use a Mesa firmware that includes BSPI channels, and write a .comp driver to control that directly.
Accessing BSPI on the Mesa card from a .comp is a bit of a fiddle, but there is an example of doing that here:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master...ivers/mesa_7i65.comp
And a similar example accessing a serial UART from a Mesa firmware:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master...ivers/mesa_uart.comp
Mesa bitfiles such as ...svssua... have UARTS (ua = uart, sv = servo encoder / pwm, st = stepgens)
You can write a HAL component that uses GPIO to directly drive pins. There is an example here
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master...onents/max31855.comp
which pin-bangs GPIO to read a temperature sensor chip.
It is written using this pre-processor code:
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/hal/comp.html
This has a max data rate of no more than 1kHz (probably half that, actually) because it runs in the servo thread.
For higher data rates you could use a Mesa firmware that includes BSPI channels, and write a .comp driver to control that directly.
Accessing BSPI on the Mesa card from a .comp is a bit of a fiddle, but there is an example of doing that here:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master...ivers/mesa_7i65.comp
And a similar example accessing a serial UART from a Mesa firmware:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master...ivers/mesa_uart.comp
Mesa bitfiles such as ...svssua... have UARTS (ua = uart, sv = servo encoder / pwm, st = stepgens)
The following user(s) said Thank You: BishopCNC15
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Moderators: cmorley
Time to create page: 0.058 seconds