On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > > FWIW: once upon a time I hooked up a TX-8 to a DOS PC with a network card, ran MS LANMAN client, and had a networked F880. I wrote a small RMT interpreter for it, too. -- Ian -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
