First of all, sorry for this extra long post. Needless to say that I am a newbie.
I have a brand new CNC. It uses a Leadshine mx4660 control board, which has its own a break out board. I installed a Mesa 5i25 card in order to add a parallel port to my computer so ita can communicate with the mx4660.
I copied a 5i25 folder containing various .pin, .xml and .bit files into lib/firmware/hm2/
I flashed successfully this .bit file that someone provided me :
freeby.mesanet.com/5i25_mx4660x2.bit
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Using mesaflash --device 5i25 --readhmid > mypinout.txt , I get this print out (which does not mean much to me unfortunately):
Configuration Name: HOSTMOT2
General configuration information:
BoardName : MESA5I25
FPGA Size: 9 KGates
FPGA Pins: 144
Number of IO Ports: 2
Width of one I/O port: 17
Clock Low frequency: 33.3333 MHz
Clock High frequency: 200.0000 MHz
IDROM Type: 3
Instance Stride 0: 4
Instance Stride 1: 64
Register Stride 0: 256
Register Stride 1: 256
Modules in configuration:
Module: WatchDog
There are 1 of WatchDog in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 3
BaseAddress: 0C00
ClockFrequency: 33.333 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes
Module: IOPort
There are 2 of IOPort in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 5
BaseAddress: 1000
ClockFrequency: 33.333 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes
Module: QCount
There are 2 of QCount in configuration
Version: 2
Registers: 5
BaseAddress: 3000
ClockFrequency: 33.333 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes
Module: StepGen
There are 10 of StepGen in configuration
Version: 2
Registers: 10
BaseAddress: 2000
ClockFrequency: 33.333 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes
Module: PWM
There are 2 of PWM in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 5
BaseAddress: 4100
ClockFrequency: 200.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes
Module: LED
There are 1 of LED in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 1
BaseAddress: 0200
ClockFrequency: 33.333 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes
Configuration pin-out:
IO Connections for P3
Pin# I/O Pri. func Sec. func Chan Pin func Pin Dir
1 0 IOPort None
14 1 IOPort PWM 0 PWM (Out)
2 2 IOPort StepGen 0 Step/Table1 (Out)
15 3 IOPort None
3 4 IOPort StepGen 0 Dir/Table2 (Out)
16 5 IOPort StepGen 4 Step/Table1 (Out)
4 6 IOPort StepGen 1 Step/Table1 (Out)
17 7 IOPort None
5 8 IOPort StepGen 1 Dir/Table2 (Out)
6 9 IOPort StepGen 2 Step/Table1 (Out)
7 10 IOPort StepGen 2 Dir/Table2 (Out)
8 11 IOPort StepGen 3 Step/Table1 (Out)
9 12 IOPort StepGen 3 Dir/Table2 (Out)
10 13 IOPort QCount 0 Quad-A (In)
11 14 IOPort QCount 0 Quad-B (In)
12 15 IOPort QCount 0 Quad-IDX (In)
13 16 IOPort None
IO Connections for P2
Pin# I/O Pri. func Sec. func Chan Pin func Pin Dir
1 17 IOPort None
14 18 IOPort PWM 1 PWM (Out)
2 19 IOPort StepGen 5 Step/Table1 (Out)
15 20 IOPort None
3 21 IOPort StepGen 5 Dir/Table2 (Out)
16 22 IOPort StepGen 9 Step/Table1 (Out)
4 23 IOPort StepGen 6 Step/Table1 (Out)
17 24 IOPort None
5 25 IOPort StepGen 6 Dir/Table2 (Out)
6 26 IOPort StepGen 7 Step/Table1 (Out)
7 27 IOPort StepGen 7 Dir/Table2 (Out)
8 28 IOPort StepGen 8 Step/Table1 (Out)
9 29 IOPort StepGen 8 Dir/Table2 (Out)
10 30 IOPort QCount 1 Quad-A (In)
11 31 IOPort QCount 1 Quad-B (In)
12 32 IOPort QCount 1 Quad-IDX (In)
13 33 IOPort None
Leadshine provide this information, among other things, regarding the mx4660:
Now when I run PnCConf Wizard, I go through these screens (omitting the splash screen):
So far so good I think. I don't see a mx4660 configuration in the dropdown list. I read somwhere to pick prob_rfx2 in that case. Now on the next screen, after accepting components changes I have no clue what to do. These fields and dropdown lists mean nothing to me.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
JF
