Driving my SyilX3 and Plasma cutter machine with 5i25t which provided driver?

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08 Sep 2025 01:24 #334600 by joego
HI, I bought a 5i25t board and no daughter card. I want to run my existing hardware, a syilX3 mill and a plasma cutter. Is there a provided firmware that will run these machines or do I have to create a new one? If I have to create a new one what is the best tool to use for this? These are both basic stepper machines with 4 axis for the syil and 3 for plasma cutter.
Thanks in advance for you answers.

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08 Sep 2025 01:52 #334601 by tommylight
Moved to "Driver Boards"
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What drives do those machines use?
Are they parallel port controlled?
Do they have some kind of BOB or controller?
Or, how are those machines connected to PC now?

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08 Sep 2025 02:50 #334602 by joego
I'm not sure who makes the drives on them I bought them already made. I had them working with mach3 but lost the recipe. I got the syilx3 machine running ok with linuxcnc but I would like to get the mesa board working. They both have proprietary break out boards on them.

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08 Sep 2025 02:54 #334604 by tommylight

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08 Sep 2025 03:03 #334605 by PCW
If you have the SyilX3 parallel port hal file, that can be used to figured out the pinout

In any case the pinout will be needed to determine which firmware to use.
 

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08 Sep 2025 03:46 #334607 by joego
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08 Sep 2025 16:04 #334638 by joego
So I attached a schematic with the pinouts in my previous post. I'm interested in learning what the process is for creating the firmware for a situation like mine where I do not have a daughter card. Do I load on of the provided files and modify the pinfile?

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08 Sep 2025 17:50 #334645 by PCW
The basic process is to take a close pinout source file (PIN_XXXXX.vhd)
copy it to a new file and edit that new file to get the desired pinout
and modules needed. Then this new file is added to the project
and included in the top level file, and finally compiled into the new
firmware binary file.

Do you know which pins on your schematic are step and dir?
(the LinuxCNC parallel port  hal file would help here)

I ask because it's quite likely an existing firmware file will either
work without changes, or at least its pinout source file would be a
good starting point to making a custom configuration
 

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09 Sep 2025 01:56 #334667 by joego
OK, will get the hal file.

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09 Sep 2025 18:06 #334723 by joego
HI, I have attached the hal file directory.
Thank you for the help! 

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