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1 m5i20

Notice: The hal_m5i20 driver is deprecated and you should use the hostmot2 driver for new installations.

Mesa Electronics m5i20 "Anything I/O Card"

The Mesa Electronics m5i20 card consists of an FPGA that can be loaded with a wide variety of configurations, and has 72 pins that leave the PC. The assignment of the pins depends on the FPGA configuration. Currently there is a HAL driver for the "4 axis host based motion control" configuration, and this FPGA configurations is also provided with EMC2. It provides 8 encoder counters, 4 PWM outputs (normally used as DACs) and up to 48 digital I/O channels, 32 inputs and 16 outputs.

Installing:

loadrt hal_m5i20 [loadFpga=1|0] [dacRate=<rate>]

If loadFpga is 1 (the default) the driver will load the FPGA configuration on startup. If it is 0, the driver assumes the configuration is already loaded. dacRate sets the carrier frequency for the PWM outputs, in Hz. The default is 32000, for 32KHz PWM. Valid values are from 1 to 32226. The driver prints some useful debugging message to the kernel log, which can be viewed with dmesg.

Up to 4 boards may be used in one system.

1.1 Pins

In the following pins, parameters, and functions, <board> is the board ID. According to the naming conventions the first board should always have an ID of zero, however this driver uses the PCI board ID, so it may be non-zero even if there is only one board.

1.2 Parameters

1.3 Functions

1.4 Connector pinout

The Hostmot-4 FPGA configuration has the following pinout. There are three 50-pin ribbon cable connectors on the card: P2, P3, and P4. There are also 8 status LEDs.

1.4.1 Connector P2

m5i20 Connector P2 Function/HAL-pin
1 enc-01 A input
3 enc-01 B input
5 enc-00 A input
7 enc-00 B input
9 enc-01 index input
11 enc-00 index input
13 dac-01 output
15 dac-00 output
17 DIR output for dac-01
19 DIR output for dac-00
21 dac-01-enable output
23 dac-00-enable output
25 enc-03 B input
27 enc-03 A input
29 enc-02 B input
31 enc-02 A input
33 enc-03 index input
35 enc-02 index input
37 dac-03 output
39 dac-02 output
41 DIR output for dac-03
43 DIR output for dac-02
45 dac-03-enable output
47 dac-02-enable output
49 Power +5 V (or +3.3V ?)
all even pins Ground

1.4.2 Connector P3

Encoder counters 4 - 7 work simultaneously with in-00 to in-11.

If you are using in-00 to in-11 as general purpose IO then reading enc-<4-7> will produce some random junk number.

m5i20 Connector P3 Function/HAL-pin Secondary Function/HAL-pin
1 in-00 enc-04 A input
3 in-01 enc-04 B input
5 in-02 enc-04 index input
7 in-03 enc-05 A input
9 in-04 enc-05 B input
11 in-05 enc-05 index input
13 in-06 enc-06 A input
15 in-07 enc-06 B input
17 in-08 enc-06 index input
19 in-09 enc-07 A input
21 in-10 enc-07 B input
23 in-11 enc-07 index input
25 in-12
27 in-13
29 in-14
31 in-15
33 out-00
35 out-01
37 out-02
39 out-03
41 out-04
43 out-05
45 out-06
47 out-07
49 Power +5 V (or +3.3V ?)
all even pins Ground

1.4.3 Connector P4

The index mask masks the index input of the encoder so that the encoder index can be combined with a mechanical switch or opto detector to clear or latch the encoder counter only when the mask input bit is in proper state (selected by mask polarity bit) and encoder index occurs. This is useful for homing. The behaviour of these pins is controlled by the Counter Control Register (CCR), however there is currently no function in the driver to change the CCR. See REGMAP4emc2/src/hal/drivers/m5i20/REGMAP4E for a description of the CCR.

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m5i20 Connector P4 Function/HAL-pin Secondary Function/HAL-pin
1 in-16 enc-00 index mask
3 in-17 enc-01 index mask
5 in-18 enc-02 index mask
7 in-19 enc-03 index mask
9 in-20
11 in-21
13 in-22
15 in-23
17 in-24 enc-04 index mask
19 in-25 enc-05 index mask
21 in-26 enc-06 index mask
23 in-27 enc-07 index mask
25 in-28
27 in-29
29 in-30
31 in-31
33 out-08
35 out-09
37 out-10
39 out-11
41 out-12
43 out-13
45 out-14
47 out-15
49 Power +5 V (or +3.3V ?)
all even pins Ground

1.4.4 LEDs

The status LEDs will monitor one motion channel set by the m5i20.<board>.led-view parameter. A call to m5i20.<board>.misc-update is required to update the viewed channel.

LED name Output
LED0 IRQLatch ?
LED1 enc-00 index mask
LED2 enc-00 index mask
LED3 enc-<channel> index
LED4 dac-<channel> DIR
LED5 dac-<channel>
LED6 dac-<channel>-enable
LED7 watchdog timeout ?