FYI, I saw this article via Slashdot about another single board computer in the Beagleboard, Raspberry Pi vein and in context with the work on porting Linuxcnc to run on other processors.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2013622/tiny-57-pc-is-like-the-raspberry-pi- but-faster-and-fully-open.html It seems interesting from the standpoint of having a 1Ghz A13 Cortex processor and the ability to interface with an inexpensive LCD display (with or without touch). It is also completely open source for both hardware and software. It is designed for Android but says that it supports Debian among other Linux distros. I was trying to figure out how much of the GPIO could be made available for Linuxcnc, to for example, be able to directly run a simple 3 axis stepper configuration. There is no parallel I/O (8255) type interface so getting to say a Linuxcnc supported FPGA type board for additional i/O and offloading CPU intensive I/O functions might be problematic. It also only directly supports Wifi for networking, but I imagine an Ethernet to USB converter could be used where a hardwired network interface was required. More information can be found here: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino/ User manual is here: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino/resources/A13-OL INUXINO.pdf Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
