Any activity around profibus lately?

There seem to be a cape available, sort of...
http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBone_ProfiBus

How about drivers and profibus stack?

/Janne


On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:11:51 -0800 (PST)
pezman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah -- the TMDXICE3359 has the PROFIBUS firmware in one of the PRUs
> for various modes of operation (DPV0 & DPV1 in both slave and master
> modes, iirc).  I guess that the question really boils down to how
> tough it is, in principle, to take the stack code and bake it into the
> Angstrom build -- with the PRU stuff being the most ticklish part of
> the question.
> 
> I do have the TMDXICE3359 on order ($99 and free shipping).  I'm not
> sure what the specs are on memory etc.  It seems to run an ad-hoc
> kernel of some sort.
> 
> If I do manage to bake some of the various industrial protocols into
> the Angstrom build, I'll post a little "how to".
> 
> Sure do like these AM335x chips, though -- they seem perfect for
> process control applications.
> 
> On Dec 12, 9:00 am, Gerald Coley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Profibus is driven by a serial output, Tx and Rx from the
> > processor. There are several of these ports available on the
> > expansion header, so I see no issue in the BeagleBone supporting
> > Profibus. There is also a CAN port on the expansion header as well,
> > but you will need to provide a driver for it.
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:02 PM, pezman <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > I found this article extremely interesting:
> > >http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/sprt622/sprt622.pdf
> >
> > > But it's not quite clear to me whether I can stuff this PROFI
> > > capability into the BBone.
> > > Also, CAN would be quite nice ...
> >
> > > All of the Beagles are awesome, btw -- its just that all of the
> > > untapped power under the hood mocks me, and makes me act all
> > > needy.
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