Not sure if this is the right place for this topic so, mods, please feel free to move this to an appropriate place. I'm trying to get some basic theory right about the maximum step frequency that my CNC software (such as Mach 3 or LinuxCNC) should output. I got some formulas from here and lets say I want my machine to move at the rate of 60mm/s and needs 80 steps to travel 1mm. This means my step rate is 60 * 80 = 4800 steps per second. Does this mean that the step frequency is 4.8Khz? Each step would have a pulse on and off time and how would that be accounted?

 

LinuxCNC does this calculation for you: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/stepconf.html