Mesa Configuration Tool

The 7I76EU (and 7I76U) have 3 new parameters and the 7I84U has 2 new parameters

The main 2 added parameters are 7i76.[port].[chan].output_source and 7i76.[port].[chan].output_sink. or
7i84.[port].[chan].output_source and 7I84.[port].[chan].output_sink. These are 16 bit masks
that control the field output mode. Each xxxx.output_source  bit controls the source attribute
of the corresponding output bit and each xxxx.output_sink bit controls the sink attribute. The
default setting is for all source mode (xxxx.output_source = 65535 or 0xFFFF, xxxx.output_sink
= 0 or 0x0000) which means a 7I76EU, 7I76U or 7I84U behave like a 7I76E,7I76 or 7I84.

So for example:

xxxx.output_sink = 0 = 0x0000
xxxx.output_source = 65535 =0xFFFF
 = normal all sourcing mode (like 7I76E, 7I76,7I84, this is the default)

xxxx.output_sink = 65536 =0xFFFF
xxxx.output_source = 0 = 0x0000
 =  all sinking mode  (like 7I76ED,7I76D,7I84D)

xxxx.output_sink = 65280 =0xFF00
xxxx.output_source = 255 = 0x00FF
= outputs 0..7 are sourcing mode, outputs 8..15 are sinking mode

xxxx.output_sink = 65535 =0xFFFF
xxxx.output_source = 65535 = 0xFFFF
= all outputs are in push-pull mode

Note that each of the 16 output bits can be individually setup for
sourcing, sinking, or push-pull mode.

The 7I76EU and 7I76U also have a spinmode parameter to set the spindle output
bit mode when this is 0 (default) the isolated spindle output bits are ENA and DIR as before.
If the spindle mode bit is set to 1 , the isolated spindle output bits now function
as FWD and REV.


 

This is cool, I have Mesa CT making a working configuration for the 7i76EU now. Just need to add the spindle types.



Thanks PCW
JT

Looks great!

good afternoon!
today I played around with MesaCT for the first time, and I saw that the generated configuration (for my 7i76eu) has a different naming / nomenclature for my outputs than pncconf...

pncconf outputs lines like this:
net dust-removal-out motion.digital-out-03 => hm2_7i76e.0.7i76.0.0.output-03

while mesact creates these lines:
net flood-output iocontrol.0.coolant-flood => hm2_7i76e.0.gpio.031.out

where does this "gpio" come from? is this redundant or did I do something wrong in the tool?

regards!

That's a bug with the 7i76eu I/O section. I'll fix that.

JT

Thx JT for the quick reply!