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17.Dd January 1, 2022
18.Dt SCMD 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm scmd
22.Nd Common driver for the Sparkfun Serial Controlled Motor Driver
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "scmd* at iic? ..."
25.Cd "scmd* at spi? ..."
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides the common framework to the Sparkfun SCMD board.
30The SCMD board is a Cypress core ARM SOC in front of a DRV8835 motor driver chip.
31There are a number of ways to talk to the board and
32.Xr scmdi2c 4
33and
34.Xr scmdspi 4
35should be consulted for the I2C and SPI frontend drivers.
36The board is fully documented in the datasheet for at Sparkfun.
37.Pp
38The board provides a register address space of 126 registers which control the various
39behaviors of the motors attached to the board.
40Each SCMD board can handle two motors,
41and up to 16 SCMD boards may be chained together allowing for 34 motors to be controlled
42from a single master instance.
43The secondary boards are accessed by set of view port registers
44from the main board.  The
45.Xr scmd 4
46driver and its associated frontends flatten the main SCMD board and all chained boards into
47a linear register space that can be opened, seeked, read from and written to like any other
48file or device without having to worry about the view port.
49.Pp
50A command line utility
51.Xr scmdctl 1
52is provided that allows convient command line commands for most of the functions provided by the
53SCMD board.
54.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
55The following
56.Xr sysctl 3
57variables are provided:
58.Bl -tag -width indent
59.It Li hw.scmd0.debug
60If the driver is compiled with
61.Dv SCMD_DEBUG ,
62this node will appear and can be used to set the debugging level.
63.El
64.Sh FILES
65.Bl -tag -width /dev/rcaXXXXX -compact
66.It Pa /dev/scmd Ns Ar u
67character device allowing access to the register space of a main
68.Ar u ,
69SCMD device
70.Sh SEE ALSO
71.Xr iic 4 ,
72.Xr spi 4 ,
73.Xr scmdi2c 4 ,
74.Xr scmdspi 4 ,
75.Xr scmdctl 1 ,
76.Xr sysctl 8
77.Sh HISTORY
78The
79.Nm
80driver first appeared in
81.Nx 10.0 .
82.Sh AUTHORS
83.An -nosplit
84The
85.Nm
86driver was written by
87.An Brad Spencer Aq Mt brad@anduin.eldar.org .
88