Hi Gabriel, I have been wondering about using microcontrollers in some of the flight controls applications, such as in a low-cost inertial navigation unit, but I was thinking more along the lines of a floating point DSP, such as a TI C30 or some such. I've programmed the 68HC11 before and it is a decent, but not particularly powerful, microcontroller, but I think it has the advantage that open source development tools exist for it.
We are currently developing code to work on a 486-based PC-104 stack. The advantages with this solution are that it provides a floating point math capability and several inexpensive and readily available development environments for us to use. So even though a flying PC isn't a particularly elegant servo controller solution, it's hard to beat the price. -----Original Message----- From: Gabriel Sebastian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ERPS] embedded chips for controls I've seen various usages for certain embedded chips (m68hc11 comes to mind), and I was just wondering if any of you are using any type of embedded microprocessors/controllers in your designs and if so what they are doing. Cheers, Gabriel _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
