Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:57 +0000, Dave Caroline wrote: > >> I have a feeling if we learn enough about USB2 a fixed bi directional >> micro frame protocol could be deterministic for EMC >> I need a second and third read of the spec >> Dave Caroline >> > > Wasn't there some talk, last year, about real-time Ethernet? Ethernet, > to my uneducated brain, seems much more appealing than USB. > > Another thought, is that as long as there are desktop PC's, there will > be slots (maybe?) and for real-time, a slot card controller would be the > most efficient. I guess this doesn't address the bare-bones systems were > cost and simplicity are the major issues. So far, there have always been > parallel port cards to fit the latest slots, so maybe it's not yet worth > worrying about? > > I wonder if there will be a time when EMC2 will need to branch, to cater > to different system types? How long will those, that want to do the most > with the least, and those that want to do the most with the most, be > able to use the same EMC? > > Who made the coffee, this morning? > > Kirk > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >
rt-ethernet is enabled by the rt-firewire used with rtai's xenomai http://www.rtfirewire.org/ "Via the implementation of real-time Ethernet-over-FireWire, an application-layer module emulating Ethernet interface over FireWire hardware, RT-FireWire enables RTnet <http://www.rtnet.org>, a hard real-time communication framework over Ethernet to work on Firewire." reghards tomp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
