illegal board ID

[rolfk · Accepted solution]

Yes it is a PCI plugin board that sits in a PCI bus connector inside the computer. But you either need fairly expensive industrial computers or a fairly old PC nowadays to still have such PCI slots inside.

The DRV-8825 is an integrated driver chip from Texas Instruments to control a stepper motor. However this alone won't do anything as you need some logic that can generate the correct logic signals that can then drive the DRV-8825 chip.

[DONGYANGYI]

Thank you so much Rolf! Now I start understading the problem a bit more. 

To summarize, the person who worked on this beofre connected the linear stage and rotary stage via Arduino Uno and used MATLAB codes with LabView to create command to control those. 

Now we want to recreate the same system with the original Arduino Uno boards, linear stage, etc., however, we don't seem to have the PCI plugin board. 

I think we do have a DRV8825 Driver chip after googling what it looks like. 

For now, just to simplify the problem, if we want to simply control the linear stage and the rotary stage, we should start using new Arduino boards then? Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you very much!

[RIObotics]

Hi DongYangYi,

My company makes a motion controller specifically to replace the now obsolete NI PCI-7344.  You can find out more here: https://geco-lv.com/geco-motion.html or PM me for details.