Re: [Emc-users] SPI comms for linuxcnc (was Re: Rock64 pre-orders on Banggood.) --> CPU + Ethercat + FPGA/CPLD but no PRU

2019-03-31 Thread Danny Miller
One common solution is you have a sizable FPGA and just add a soft core into it. RISC-V is an open-source, royalty-free core specifically architected to efficiently implement as FPGA gates that Keil can compile for, and the common Segger JTAG programmer can program AND debug the code. At tha

Re: [Emc-users] SPI comms for linuxcnc (was Re: Rock64 pre-orders on Banggood.) --> CPU + Ethercat + FPGA/CPLD but no PRU

2019-03-31 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
A CPU with Ethernet and a builtin FPGA/CPLD to implement the SPI ports would probably be a very good device for an SPI router, probably also very cheap. Packets could routed to ordinary computer running Linuxcnc as is today or split so that real time part is in the simple device. It is not to di