no reason to double up with an Arduino - two ideas:

- you can tack on a soft encoder to Charles' PRU code; there are provisions to 
tack on 'tasks' to the PRU dolist (PRU assembly, for the hardcore types)
- the AM3359 has three quadrature encoders available (eQEP0,1,2)

two of them have all their pins broken out on the original beaglebone (eQEP1 
and eQEP2.  eQEP0 only has channel B and the index pin broken out).  
The Beaglebone Black has all three broken out. Those would be pretty high speed.

You need to write a driver for them. It boils down to the device tree magic 
getting the pinmuxing right, and then setup the eQEP's as needed.

The way I used to explore the builtin devices is to get the memory mapping in 
place in Python, then fiddle registers until results make sense. Then make it a 
HAL driver.

example exploring the eCAP timer register: 
https://github.com/mhaberler/linuxcnc/blob/unified-build-candidate-2/src/hal/components/pru_support/ecaptimer.py

-m



Am 16.08.2013 um 12:41 schrieb andy pugh <[email protected]>:

> On 16 August 2013 11:11, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What is the encoder pulse rate?
> 
> About 10kHz.
> 
> I suspect that an Arduino with interrupt-driven encoder counters might
> be a good solution.
> 
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