On 6/24/2014 5:47 AM, 吳政昌 wrote:
> I'm designing a board for CNC based on Beaglebone Black.
> 
> Spec: like BeagleBone Black but
>   * 2 RJ45
>   * 1 FPGA for stepper
>   * Boot into EtherCAT master mode but can changed to EtherCAT slave mode
>   * 2 Connectors, 1 of them is compatible to Raspberry Pi's P1 connector

It sounds like a great board!  A few comments:

* I recommend making the hardware encoder pins available if at all
possible, since you seem to be targeting industrial control.

* The PRU is required to run EtherCAT slave mode (along with the
libraries from TI), which means the PRU likely will not be able to do
step/dir generation in EtherCAT mode.  You have an FPGA, but I don't
think the ICE40 will have enough logic to run the standard hostmot2 VHDL
code.

* I see mention of a PC104 bus, which would be great, but this would
have to tie to the GPMC controller, which conflicts with the eMMC
controller pins.

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
[email protected]

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