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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 - ESS - Charge Pump confusion
« on: December 29, 2015, 02:35:39 AM »
Hi Gerhard,
The solution is coming soon. The next Mach4 ESS plugin will give you the ability to assign up to three pins to one signal. This will most often be used for the Charge Pump, since the ESS has three Parallel Ports. You could have up to 3 independent breakout boards connected to the ESS, and each one could need a Charge Pump signal to enable it. Mach4 doesn't know anything about Charge Pumps, which is why Steve Murphree removed it. It is up to the plugin to implement it. Another use for assigning multiple pins to one signal is to drive different polarities of the same signal. For example, Output #1 could drive one pin as Active High, and another pin as Active Low. This will not be used as often, but some people might find a use for it. And of course another possible use is to make wiring easier if one signal needs to go to multiple destinations.
I've made a lot of changes to the configuration and I'm getting close to having it compile again.
Greg
The solution is coming soon. The next Mach4 ESS plugin will give you the ability to assign up to three pins to one signal. This will most often be used for the Charge Pump, since the ESS has three Parallel Ports. You could have up to 3 independent breakout boards connected to the ESS, and each one could need a Charge Pump signal to enable it. Mach4 doesn't know anything about Charge Pumps, which is why Steve Murphree removed it. It is up to the plugin to implement it. Another use for assigning multiple pins to one signal is to drive different polarities of the same signal. For example, Output #1 could drive one pin as Active High, and another pin as Active Low. This will not be used as often, but some people might find a use for it. And of course another possible use is to make wiring easier if one signal needs to go to multiple destinations.
I've made a lot of changes to the configuration and I'm getting close to having it compile again.
Greg