Remora - ethernet NVEM / EC300 / EC500 cnc board

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4 years 3 months ago #248665 by xu
Thanks to scotta EC500 for adding encoding and QEI functionality that's great.

DIY CNC servo motors without coded feedback are a nightmare to tune

I can't buy MESA
NVEM & EC500 are readily available
The old one was about $60

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4 years 2 months ago #249042 by eng
Could you tell me if it would be possible to use the firmware that is being used in the EC500 on the STM32F407VET6 board with the LAM8720A, if so, would I have to make any changes?

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4 years 2 months ago #249070 by scotta
Hi eng, that is the basis of the EC500 firmware. One catch with the EC500 was the shared clock signal between the PHY and the MCU. I only figured that out when I had the board physically in my hands. If the board you are considering is different then the clock settings would need to be changed accordingly.

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4 years 2 months ago #249091 by eng
I noticed exactly this, because I saw in your video that the ec500 had only a single crystal, I asked this question because from what I'm seeing, the plates with the stm32f407vet6 use as a clock, an 8mhz crystal, that was my biggest doubt and for this reason I asked this question.

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4 years 2 months ago - 4 years 2 months ago #249097 by scotta
Some progress to share and getting closer. Below is a snip of a DDS synthsised 450 kHz step train on two pins on different ports generated by the DMAstepgen module and pushed to the two GPIO ports at 1Mhz via DMA using 1 single timer :-)

Still to do is double buffer and connect the stepgens to LinuxCNC command and feedback.

 
Last edit: 4 years 2 months ago by scotta. Reason: correction
The following user(s) said Thank You: Bari, MX_Master, tuzki, Murphy

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4 years 2 months ago #249486 by Murphy
I'm finding it hard to order one of these. The first order never shipped so I got a refund. So I asked another seller. He said the manufacturer has pulled the current stock due to something been wrong with that batch. maybe they don't want people messing with them. ?

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