The Parallela board has 48 fpga i/o's available on one of the four connectors on the back. That ought to do well for motion control.
-- Ralph ________________________________________ From: Charles Steinkuehler [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 9:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Parallela board On 7/24/2013 11:13 AM, Ralph Stirling wrote: > Hostmot2 should have no trouble fitting. The > ARM-9 in the Zynq is 2-core, and has a double > precision vector FPU. The bigger problem I see > is that the Parallela is more of a nitch product, > so the effort of porting LinuxCNC to it would benefit > fewer people than a board like the Beaglebone Black, > which looks to be achieving good market acceptance. I am beginning a project for work using the similar Altera SoC, with dual Cortex-A9 ARM cores and FPGA logic. I am hopeful someone will make a board suitable for machine control with a lot of I/O pins available (ie: more like the BeagleBone and less like the Pi). Xenomai and the ARM version of LinuxCNC should be portable to either system pretty easily, since the hard ARM core sub-system is generally straight out of the ARM reference manual (ie: not a lot of custom vendor supplied peripherals, other than what you design and put into the FPGA). -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
