Delta MMC120 User Manual

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Xilinx Version

This version corresponds to the Field Programmable Gate Array (Xilinx) firmware.

There is one command available:

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New Firmware

This command starts the Controller firmware download procedure. See

Downloading

New Firmware

for details.

Options Dialog Box

To display the monitor options dialog, from the Tools menu, click Options.

This dialog box has the following information:
Serial Port Tab

Comm. Port list:
This list allows the user to change the serial port used to communicate between the

motion controller and the monitor program on the PC. Refer to

Selecting a Serial

Port to Use

for further details. An alternative way to change this setting is to right-

click on the main-screen status bar's COM pane, and select the serial port from the

shortcut menu.

Open/Closed list:
This list allows the user to manually open or close the serial port. By closing the

serial port manually, the serial port can be freed up to use by other applications. This

setting does not affect whether DCS120-Win will open the serial port by default.

This can instead be controlled through the -P command-line option; see

Command

Line Options

for details. An alternative way to change this setting is to right-click on

the main-screen status bar's COM pane, and click Open or Close from the shortcut

menu.

Serial Port Update Rate slider:
This slider adjusts a delay that is inserted between communications over the serial

port on the PC when talking to a motion controller. The only purpose for this control

is to decrease the load on slower PCs; the motion controller can handle any of the

communication speeds. If this software seems to slow down Windows, move this

slider closer to “Slow”.
Move the slider to the left in decrease the delay between communications with the

motion controller. Move the slider to the right to increase this delay.

NOTE: This setting is ignored while reading up a plot; no delay is used.

Use Small-Packet Mode check box:
By selecting this check box, the size of the packets sent over the serial port are