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STEPPER-MOTOR-RD 3. Stepper Motor Reference Design Demonstration The Stepper Motor Reference Design includes everything you need to set up a stepper motor demonstration. Connect the stepper motor to the stepper motor control board following the wiring chart for the 42BYG205 motor as shown in Table 1.
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RS-232 connection is used with a terminal program to provide a basic terminal interface for the stepper motor. If your PC has USB and does not have a serial port, you may use the Silicon Laboratories CP2102 EK to provide a virtual COM port connection.
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STEPPER-MOTOR-RD Push the Reset button on the Stepper Motor Reference Design Board. When reset, the Stepper Motor Reference Design sends a ">" prompt character to the terminal. If you do not get a prompt character, check your port settings, cable connections, and make sure the Stepper Motor Reference Design Board is powered. The Stepper Motor Reference Design command line provides some basic terminal commands to display motor status, change position, and change acceleration.
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5. Development Tool Installation Install the Reference Design Kit Tools from the Reference Design Kit Tools & Documentation CD. This installs the Silicon Laboratories IDE and the 2k code size limited version of the Keil Compiler. Figure 6. Install Development Tools...
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The Stepper Motor Reference Design includes everything you need to develop your own stepper motor control firmware using the Silicon Laboratories C8051F300/1 MCU. The Stepper Motor reference design code may be used as a starting point for your own code development.
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C:\SiLabs\MCU\Stepper_Motor_RD\firmware\ The software for AN155 is also available as a zip file on the CD or from the Silicon Laboratories website. To create a stepper motor project, complete the following steps: 1. Launch the Silicon Laboratories IDE from the Start menu.
Documentation CD. Click on Browse Documents to locate them or explore the CD and locate the User’s Guides and Application Notes in the Documents folder. The latest versions of the documentation and software can also be downloaded from the Silicon Laboratories website www.silabs.com.
Silicon Laboratories products are not designed, intended, or authorized for use in applications intended to support or sustain life, or for any other application in which the failure of the Silicon Laboratories product could create a situation where per- sonal injury or death may occur.
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