Am 06.07.2013 um 17:15 schrieb Lars Segerlund <lars.segerl...@gmail.com>:
> It would be nice to use the arduino as backend, stepgenerator or so, > and linuxcnc as frontend for heavy stuff .... that has in fact been done already several times for steppers see picnc which will be integrated going forward, although it uses a PIC: http://code.google.com/p/picnc/ also, if you view the AM335x PRU's in the BeagleBone as 32-bit-200Mhz-arduinos-on-steroids with no extra packaging cost, that is a pretty hard to beat package at $45 unfortunately none of these non-FP CPU's of one kind or the other solve the nastier problems, for instance a high-speed, precisely timed servo loop, or e.g. digital notch filters in the servo loop to suppress machine resonance any takers for an OpenCL-based HAL instance? that could potentially redefine the playing field wrt highspeed FP backends - Michael > > Floating point is nice but people tend to trust it :-D .... so I have > actualy had more problems getting things running in fixed point code, > but more problems getting stuff 'safe' or bugfree in floatingpoint, > it's so easy to loose precision. > > / regards, Lars Segerlund. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
