Hi, I've been studying different DIY-CNC options for about a year now, and I feel that LinuxCNC is in pretty good shape to play with (have not played with it, though).
I am a professional FPGA designer, and I would like to contribute to EMC if FPGA-design is needed. I feel that adding support for the following "IO-card", better performance and scalability could be achieved: http://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/developmentkits/machxo2picokit.cfm is evaluation card for Lattice's brand new CPLD/FPGA. And the best part for real-time system is FT2232H http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/ICs/FT2232H.htm chip, which can be utilized to transfer upto 40 Mbytes/second to the HW. The price of DevKit is only $29, which is a third compared to MORPH-IC-II http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/Modules/DevelopmentModules.htm (Which also could be used for EMC) How do you feel, could the USB+FPGA based IO expansion be utilized in EMC? Which kind of functionality should be embedded there? What constraints should I recognize? Other thoughts? BR, -Topi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
