On 07/10/2017 09:50 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: > I was previously planning to so that, and I still think that the FPGA > approach would feel more natural to me than using the PRUs. But the > Beaglebone seems like a much more economical approach. I'd need a > processor to control it, an SD card and/or USB and/or network > interface to get data and commands on and off, and driver stacks for > all of that stuff. I could also get there with a Xilinx Zynq family > device, but at 2x or more cost vs. a BeagleBone.
I worked out an interface using an Xilinx 95108 CPLD, but again, you still need a CPU to interface to it. It just seems more natural, given the I/O count on today's MCUs, to dispense with the CPLD altogether. --Chuck
