Advanced Search

Hi Chris,

Would you be willing to share any experience / knowledge on how you did the Fadal retrofit?

It would be awesome to learn from someone with experience. 


Thanks,

Frans

Hi msrdiesel,

Are you using this 3D probe in combination with your Retrofit Fadal?

Interesting setup

It may have been the fault of mine, I changed the flash chip out, it may have been a dodgy one. I'll chase up an original M25P40 and put it back on.
In the meantime I have access to a few other Spartan6 boards, one with the same FPGA on it, pins are just a bit different and only 70 GPIO available, but does have 6 LEDS and 4 switches on the board
Al least I'll still be able to experiment, got plenty of dupont cables to patch the FPGA board to my daughterboards.

Thanks for all your help, changing things around is pretty straight forward, and after messing with the Mesa firmwares I feel comfortable messing about with it.

Yes, laser marked parts are hard to read unless you have the light just right...

U10 26LS31 (SOIC16)
U12 74ACT540 (TSSOP 20)
U15 26LS32A (SOIC16)
U19 74ACT541 (TSSOP 20)
U24 74ACT04 (SOIC 14)

have update the board config in git and build and upload a new bitstream file.

i have the same problem with openFGPALoader and MachXO3 from lattice

Wischi wrote:

Is there anyway to do this automatic? I have read about event handlers but running it in the background seems kind of a waste. Maybe update it when the tab gets activated (clicked on) ?

The most elegant way would be to load this on a file-load event. signal "file-loaded", see linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/gui/gstat.html.
But if I remember correctly this doesn't work with GladeVCP unfortunately. Therfore the HTML widget must be part of Gmoccapy.

Wischi wrote:

When you start gmoccapy there is always a small windows that appears and then disappers quickly, how can that be fixed?

What does this window contain?

20Mb for a file system image ??????

I wasn't asking for a kernel image but a file system image. Can't chroot into a kernel image.

Well mate I can't say if it works or not, my dev board has decided not to play nicely.
Loads to SRAM but afterwards doesn't conifg, this is even with some known good bit files.
It's a hell of an effort to write to Flash, every time I try the flash chip returns different ID.
If I run openFGPALoader to detect the FPGA it works fine.

Just a few notes, the on board OSC is actually 50Mhz not 25MHz as per schemtic
Speed type is -2 not -3 .

Is this the Image github.com/Douglas-d/MYD-AM6254/blob/main/Image ?

Sorry, I can't share the modified src now.

Thanks

I made the modification,in my postgui file

I no longer get errors but it still doesn't work, my pin axisui.run-disable remains on false while my input hm2_7i97.0.inmux.00.input-11-not works fine

ping should work, have to look in the source code for the IP, not sure if it is static

the test-bitfile need no connection, it just blinking (i hope)

I need to setup my RPi4 to test SPI, been somewhat busy today so not a lot of time to do much.

I think I may have a an image floating around.

Is there a way to test the UDPSPI bridge prior to connecting it to a FPGA board ? Will it respond to a ping ? I rebuilt the W32-ETH01 firmware and it seemed to upload ok.

so, have add some pin-mappings for the v04 board (DB3) and add 3 stepdir plugins ...

sorry, wrong test file, you need the .bit :
multixmedia.org/Spartan6.bit
 

it's working!

the solution for me was #!/usr/bin/python => #!/usr/bin/python3

Tks Tommylight.
1. I tried your advice "sudo halcompile --install wj200_vfd wj200_vfd.comp"
It has error "Unrecognized file type for mode install: 'wj200_vfd"
2. I tried this command "sudo halcompile --install wj200_vfd.comp"
It has error "fatal error: modbus.h: No such file or directory"
I am new to LCNC, please be patient with me
Thank you.