Remora - Rpi Software Stepping Using External Microcontroller via SPI

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3 years 5 months ago - 3 years 5 months ago #270774 by meister
If someone want to play with github.com/multigcs/Remora-FPGA Working on Olimex ICE40HX8K-EVB and  TinyFPGA-BX5Mhz Step-Clock is no problem for the hardware 

 
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3 years 5 months ago #270875 by meister

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3 years 5 months ago #270900 by scotta
That's so cool. Well done!

Is the FPGA code using the DDS step generation algorithm?

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3 years 5 months ago #270907 by meister
Thanks,
no i'm using clock generators and counters,
it's like one Hardware-Timer/Counter for each joint on normal Microcontroller's.
Code:
module stepgen     (         input clk,         input signed [31:0] jointFreqCmd,         output signed [31:0] jointFeedback,         output DIR,         output STP     );     assign DIR = (jointFreqCmd > 0);     reg [31:0] jointCounter = 32'd0;     reg [31:0] jointFreqCmdAbs = 32'd0;     reg signed [31:0] jointFeedbackMem = 32'd0;     reg step = 0;     assign STP = step;     assign jointFeedback = jointFeedbackMem;     always @ (posedge clk) begin         if (DIR) begin             jointFreqCmdAbs = jointFreqCmd / 2;         end else begin             jointFreqCmdAbs = -jointFreqCmd / 2;         end         jointCounter <= jointCounter + 1;         if (jointFreqCmd != 0) begin             if (jointCounter >= jointFreqCmdAbs) begin                 step <= ~step;                 jointCounter <= 32'b0;                 if (step) begin                     if (DIR) begin                         jointFeedbackMem = jointFeedbackMem + 1;                     end else begin                         jointFeedbackMem = jointFeedbackMem - 1;                     end                 end             end         end     end endmodule

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3 years 5 months ago #271434 by cakeslob

Just dropping in to say hi to Cakeslob and let him know I'm looking forward to seeing progress on the linuxCNC front with regular 3d printer control boards!
In particular I am hoping to use the Spider King board!

Ok, I got it goin so far if you wanna test it out a bit. The serial output it good so at least. It uses the 26pin header for spi and serial, i only tested serial today.
Doesnt work with bootloader yet, so load it via DFU
I put a firmware.bin and basic config.txt
I was about to test it more, but it doesnt look like I can use my A4988/DRV8825 drivers. Keep in mind spi stepper driver things arent supported in remora, so you probably need to use 2209 or external drivers or something like fysetc fancy 5160 things. Unless those spi ones configure some other way, I dont know to much about them.

github.com/cakeslob/Remora/tree/mbedos6_spiderking

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3 years 5 months ago #272223 by meister
Maybe something for you:
github.com/multigcs/LinuxCNC-RIO/tree/ma...Bridge/ESP32-PoE-ISO

So you can use SPI Boards via UDP ;)
I use this to connect my FPGA to Ethernet at the moment,
should work directly with the Remora-nvem component.

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