A proposal for the minimal testbed for the ECMC

[jeonghanlee]

@anderssandstrom

This proposal is to share a testbed hardware configuration (BOM, and others). It may boost several projects that want to see how the entire system works together.

I am sure ESS has the plenty of examples for motion application (maybe only one axis) and sampling environment. At this part, I can resume my previous work for the EtherCAT master and real-time Linux configuration as well.

[anderssandstrom]

@jeonghanlee,
Nice to hear from you. That's a good idea. Yes, we have several designs of complete test crates (19" 6U). The MCU1012 is the simplest design and it includes the following functionality:

• 1 axis stepper drive
• incremental encoder interface
• digital I/O (24V)
• timestamped digital input (5v)
• spare space for additional ethercat terminals

List of ethercat hardware:
https://github.com/icshwi/ecmccfg/blob/master/hardware/ESS_crates/ecmcMCU1012.cmd
and this is the complete ecmc config with motion config:
https://github.com/icshwi/ecmccfg/tree/master/examples/mcu1012
Do you think this kind of system would work for you?
I can share more info with you over e-mail if you want.