Help needed with bit file 7i96 + 7i85s

Hey guys, 

Could someone help me or create me a bit file for my needs? 

I have a 7i96e with a 7i85 doughter card and I need a bit file for my my machine setup.

My needs are as follows:

- 4 stepgens
- 1 spindle control for VFD
- 3 encoder inputs  ( X Y and Z encoders on my Stepper motors )
- every possible input and output that is configurable 

I will run one limit switch for every axis which also serves as the home switch.
I want to run a Tool lenght touchoff pad aswell as a 3D probe in the future

It would be awesome if someone could make me a suitable bit file for me or teache me on how to make it myself. 

If that person would help me Setup linuxcnc with this bit file for this project, I would be very greatful aswell.

Thank you very much in advance. 

Greetings Redneck92
 

If you have a 7I85S you should use 7i96_7i85sd.bit
If you have a 7I85 you should use 7i96_7i85d.bit

Both are in the 7i96.zip file

When I Flash the 7i96_7i85sd.bit to my card it shows only 3 Encoder Inputs

1 encoder on the 7i96 and 2 encoders on the 7i85s as far as I see.
What is the problem here?

This is what I get when I read the data on the card:

General configuration information:

BoardName : MESA7I96
FPGA Size: 9 KGates
FPGA Pins: 144
Number of IO Ports: 3
Width of one I/O port: 17
Clock Low frequency: 100.0000 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: DPLL
There are 1 of DPLL in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 7
BaseAddress: 7000
ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes

Module: WatchDog
There are 1 of WatchDog in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 3
BaseAddress: 0C00
ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes

Module: IOPort
There are 3 of IOPort in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 5
BaseAddress: 1000
ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes

Module: PWM
There are 1 of PWM in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 5
BaseAddress: 4100
ClockFrequency: 200.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes

Module: StepGen
There are 8 of StepGen in configuration
Version: 2
Registers: 10
BaseAddress: 2000
ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes

Module: MuxedQCount
There are 6 of MuxedQCount in configuration
Version: 4
Registers: 5
BaseAddress: 3600
ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes

Module: MuxedQCountSel
There are 1 of MuxedQCountSel in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 0
BaseAddress: 0000
ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes

Module: SSerial
There are 1 of SSerial in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 6
BaseAddress: 5B00
ClockFrequency: 100.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 64 bytes

Module: SSR
There are 1 of SSR in configuration
Version: 0
Registers: 2
BaseAddress: 7D00
ClockFrequency: 100.000 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: 100.000 MHz
Register Stride: 256 bytes
Instance Stride: 4 bytes

Configuration pin-out:

IO Connections for TB3
Pin# I/O Pri. func Sec. func Chan Pin func Pin Dir

TB3-1 0 IOPort None
TB3-2 1 IOPort None
TB3-3 2 IOPort None
TB3-4 3 IOPort None
TB3-5 4 IOPort None
TB3-6 5 IOPort None
TB3-7 6 IOPort None
TB3-8 7 IOPort None
TB3-9 8 IOPort None
TB3-10 9 IOPort None
TB3-11 10 IOPort None
TB3-13,14 11 IOPort SSR 0 Out-00 (Out)
TB3-15,16 12 IOPort SSR 0 Out-01 (Out)
TB3-17,18 13 IOPort SSR 0 Out-02 (Out)
TB3-19,20 14 IOPort SSR 0 Out-03 (Out)
TB3-21,22 15 IOPort SSR 0 Out-04 (Out)
TB3-23,24 16 IOPort SSR 0 Out-05 (Out)

IO Connections for TB1/TB2
Pin# I/O Pri. func Sec. func Chan Pin func Pin Dir

TB1-2,3 17 IOPort StepGen 0 Step/Table1 (Out)
TB1-4,5 18 IOPort StepGen 0 Dir/Table2 (Out)
TB1-8,9 19 IOPort StepGen 1 Step/Table1 (Out)
TB1-10,11 20 IOPort StepGen 1 Dir/
Table2 (Out)
TB1-14,15 21 IOPort StepGen 2 Step/Table1 (Out)
TB1-16,17 22 IOPort StepGen 2 Dir/Table2 (Out)
TB1-20,21 23 IOPort StepGen 3 Step/Table1 (Out)
TB1-22,23 24 IOPort StepGen 3 Dir/Table2 (Out)
TB2-2,3 25 IOPort StepGen 4 Step/Table1 (Out)
TB2-4,5 26 IOPort StepGen 4 Dir/Table2 (Out)
TB2-7,8 27 IOPort MuxedQCount 2 MuxQ-A (In)
TB2-10,11 28 IOPort MuxedQCount 2 MuxQ-B (In)
TB2-13,14 29 IOPort MuxedQCount 2 MuxQ-IDX (In)
TB2-16,17 30 IOPort SSerial 0 RXData0 (In)
TB2-18,19 31 IOPort SSerial 0 TXData0 (Out)
Internal-TXEn 32 IOPort SSerial 0 TXEn0 (Out)
Internal 33 IOPort SSR 0 AC Ref (Out)

IO Connections for P1
Pin# I/O Pri. func Sec. func Chan Pin func Pin Dir

P1-01/DB25-01 34 IOPort SSerial 0 RXData1 (In)
P1-02/DB25-14 35 IOPort SSerial 0 TXData1 (Out)
P1-03/DB25-02 36 IOPort None
P1-04/DB25-15 37 IOPort None
P1-05/DB25-03 38 IOPort StepGen 7 Step/Table1 (Out)
P1-06/DB25-16 39 IOPort StepGen 7 Dir/Table2 (Out)
P1-07/DB25-04 40 IOPort StepGen 6 Step/Table1 (Out)
P1-08/DB25-17 41 IOPort StepGen 6 Dir/Table2 (Out)
P1-09/DB25-05 42 IOPort StepGen 5 Step/Table1 (Out)
P1-11/DB25-06 43 IOPort StepGen 5 Dir/Table2 (Out)
P1-13/DB25-07 44 IOPort MuxedQCountSel 0 MuxSel0 (Out)
P1-15/DB25-08 45 IOPort MuxedQCount 0 MuxQ-A (In)
P1-17/DB25-09 46 IOPort MuxedQCount 0 MuxQ-B (In)
P1-19/DB25-10 47 IOPort MuxedQCount 0 MuxQ-IDX (In)
P1-21/DB25-11 48 IOPort MuxedQCount 1 MuxQ-A (In)
P1-23/DB25-12 49 IOPort MuxedQCount 1 MuxQ-B (In)
P1-25/DB25-13 50 IOPort MuxedQCount 1 MuxQ-IDX (In)


As far as I understand it tells me, that on the 7i85s only two encoder inputs are in use.

How can I change this? Do I overlook something?

That shows 6 encoders, 4 on the 7I85S and 2 on the 7I96

(one on the 7I96 is not accessible)
The odd numbering is because these are multiplexed encoders
and use 3 pins for each encoder pair

Thank you very much for your help. I got it now. Last 5 Hours I was wraping my head around that stuff and figuring out how to edit the hal and ini files to my needs.

As you said, the numbering did not make any sense to me and lead me to beliefe that the bit file was wrong. Big thank you again.

Seems to work perfectly now. When I unplug the motor power cables and turn the motorshaft the encoder tracks the rotation. So I can use Linuxcnc as a DRO aswell when disabling the drives.

Now I need to figure out how to calculate the steps per revolution with my beltdrive and stuff. But as for today, I have enough of that stuff.