Silicon Laboratories Stepper Machine manual

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    Rev. 0.1 5/06 Copyright © 2006 by Si licon La boratories STEPPER-MOTOR-RD STEPPER-MOT OR-RD S TEPPER M OTOR R EFERENCE D ESIGN K IT U SER ’ S G UIDE 1. Kit Content s The S tepper Motor Reference Design Kit con tains the following item s:  S tep per Motor Reference Desi gn Board  S tep per Motor  Universal AC to DC Power Adapter  USB [...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD 2 Rev. 0.1 3. S tepper Motor Reference Design Demonstration The S t epper Mot or Referenc e Design include s everyth i ng you need to set up a step per motor demonstration. Connect the stepper motor to the stepper motor control board followin g the wiring chart for the 42BYG205 motor as shown in T able 1. Connect the un iversal ac[...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD Rev. 0.1 3 4. HyperT erminal Demonstration S tart with the Demo Se tup above and add a n RS-232 cable co nnection to your computer as sh own in Figure 3. The RS-232 connection is used with a terminal pr ogram to pr ovide a basic terminal inter face for the stepper motor . If your PC has USB and does not have a serial port, you may[...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD 4 Rev. 0.1 Push the Reset button on the S tepper Motor Reference Design Boa rd. When reset, the S tepper Mo tor Reference Design sends a ">" prom pt character to the terminal. If yo u do not get a prompt character , check your port settings, cable connections, and ma ke sure the S tepper Motor Refe rence Design Board [...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD Rev. 0.1 5 5. Development T o ol Installation Install th e Reference Design Kit T ools from the Refe rence Design Kit T ools & Documentation CD. This installs the Silicon Laboratories IDE and the 2k code size limit ed version of the Keil Compiler . Figure 6. Inst all Development T ools[...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD 6 Rev. 0.1 6. Development Setup using the USB D ebug Adapter The S tepper Motor Referen ce Design includes everything you need to develop yo ur own step per motor c ontrol firmware using the Silicon Laboratories C8051F 300/1 MCU. The S tepper Motor reference design code may be used as a starting point for your own code development[...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD Rev. 0.1 7 7. S tepper Motor Project The source code for the S tepper Motor Reference design is inst alled from the CD onto your ha rd drive in the following default location: C:SiLabsMCUS tepper_Motor_RDfirmware The software for AN155 is also available as a zip file on the CD or fr om the Silicon Laboratories website. T o cr[...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD 8 Rev. 0.1 8. Related Document s  S tepper Motor Reference De sign Quick S tart Gu ide  AN155: S tepper Motor Reference Design Soft copies of this document and th e ones listed a bove are included on the Refere nce Design Kit T ools & Documenta tion CD. Click on Browse Docu ments to locate them or e xplore the CD a nd lo[...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD Rev. 0.1 9 Notes:[...]

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    STEPPER-MOT OR-RD 10 Rev. 0.1 Cont act Information Silicon Laborato ries Inc. 4635 Boston Lane Austin, TX 78735 Email: MCUinfo@silabs.com Internet: www .silabs.com Silicon Laboratories and Silicon Labs are trademarks of Silico n Laboratories Inc. Other products or brandnames mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademar ks of their respect[...]