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Importantly, for
Card-Addressed Commands
the setting applies to all axes on the card. For example, the
ring buffer delay can be set independently for the XY stage on one card and a piezo stage on a different
card. However, if a card contains more than one independent axis (e.g. a ZF card for two linear stages,
or a Micro mirror card for 2 scanners) then the same setting applies to all axes. Continuing our example,
the ring buffer on the ZF card would control both Z and F axes (though one of these axes could be
disconnected from the ring buffer) so Z and F could not have separate ring buffer delay times.
Various methods of determining the address of a specific card are given below.
A third category is
Broadcast commands
, like
STATUS
,
HALT
,
RESET
, and
ZERO
. They are routed to
all cards in a TG-1000 system by default, just like the MS-2000. However, in most cases they can also be
directed at a single card by simply adding the card address, so they could be considered as special type
of Card-Addressed Commands sent to all cards if an address is not specified.
A final category includes commands that default to a particular card, though they can be addressed to
specific cards as well. There are sub-categories of commands sent to the COMM card unless otherwise
specified (e.g.
BUILD
and
WHO
), commands sent to whatever card has the X axis or else all the stage
cards if the X axis doesn’t exist (e.g.
JSSPD
and
LED
), and commands sent to whatever card has the Z
axis or all the stage cards if the Z axis doesn’t exist (e.g. most CRISP and autofocus commands). These
sub-categories may be referred to as
Comm-Default
,
Stage-Default
, and
Focus-Default
commands
respectively.
Beginning with COMM card firmware version 3.10 a special axis letter * was added. When this
character is specified in an Axis-specific command then it applies to all the axes in the controller. For
instance, all axes can be moved to zero position using
M *=0
.
3
The * axis letter can also be combined
with card addressing to apply the command to all the axes on the same card, e.g.
3M *=0
will move
all axes on card address 3 to their zero position, and
3! *
will home all axes on card 3.
How does the user find out a card address? When the TG-1000 is turned on or when
WHO
serial
command is issued, the controller prints out card address, axis names, firmware version and firmware
build date of all the cards installed in the system (see section Tiger Banner below for more details). Also,
more complete information about the cards and corresponding axes can be accessed using the
BUILD
X
command which is described in the section Build Command below.
As an illustrative example, the controller may have the following configuration as reported on startup:
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At 30: Comm v1.5 TIGER_COMM May 07 2013:15:42:05
At 31: X:XYMotor,Y:XYMotor v2.4 STD_XY Jun 11 2013:17:00:12
fact that the command itself does not carry address information and thus it needed to be separately
specified.
3
Actually the
=0
can be omitted, since numeric arguments for
MOVE
default to 0.
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