grbl-LPC-CoreXY/stepper.h
Sonny Jeon b36e30de2e Yet another major stepper algorithm and planner overhaul.
- Overhauled the stepper algorithm and planner again. This time
concentrating on the decoupling of the stepper ISR completely. It is
now dumb, relying on the segment generator to provide the number of
steps to execute and how fast it needs to go. This freed up lots of
memory as well because it made a lot tracked variables obsolete.

- The segment generator now computes the velocity profile of the
executing planner block on the fly in floating point math, instead of
allowing the stepper algorithm to govern accelerations in the previous
code. What this accomplishes is the ability and framework to (somewhat)
easily install a different physics model for generating a velocity
profile, i.e. s-curves.

- Made some more planner enhancements and increased efficiency a bit.

- The changes also did not increase the compiled size of Grbl, but
decreased it slightly as well.

- Cleaned up a lot of the commenting.

- Still much to do, but this push works and still is missing feedholds
(coming next.)
2013-11-22 17:35:58 -07:00

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/*
stepper.h - stepper motor driver: executes motion plans of planner.c using the stepper motors
Part of Grbl
Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Simen Svale Skogsrud
Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Sungeun K. Jeon
Grbl is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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Grbl is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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*/
#ifndef stepper_h
#define stepper_h
#include <avr/io.h>
#ifndef SEGMENT_BUFFER_SIZE
#define SEGMENT_BUFFER_SIZE 7
#endif
// Initialize and setup the stepper motor subsystem
void st_init();
// Enable steppers, but cycle does not start unless called by motion control or runtime command.
void st_wake_up();
// Immediately disables steppers
void st_go_idle();
// Reset the stepper subsystem variables
void st_reset();
// Notify the stepper subsystem to start executing the g-code program in buffer.
void st_cycle_start();
// Reinitializes the buffer after a feed hold for a resume.
void st_cycle_reinitialize();
// Initiates a feed hold of the running program
void st_feed_hold();
// Reloads step segment buffer. Called continuously by runtime execution protocol.
void st_prep_buffer();
// Called by planner_recalculate() when the executing block is updated by the new plan.
void st_update_plan_block_parameters();
#endif