I'm sure it would depend upon how Xylotex or others are implementing their cape..
BTW, I'm curious; Does anyone know who came up with the term "cape" ?? That seems totally non-obvious to me, compared to "add-on board", "daughter board", etc. Did that arrive out of a language translation? Or was that a TI invention. I used to work for TI long ago and some of those guys lived a little over the edge. ;-) >>I just don't know how linuxcnc would command it. With the proper driver software it should become fairly transparent to the user. Otherwise no one is going to want to use it. Dave On 2/25/2014 8:45 AM, Josiah Morgan wrote: > I noticed that xylotex has an fpga cape in the works for beaglebone black. > (as well as other similar items from other sources) > I was curious if anyone was looking into the implementation of such fpga > capes into a linuxcnc build. > also, what would be the benefits and drawbacks to the addition of this fpga > module? > has anyone thought about how linuxcnc would be able to actually take > advantage of the fpga capabilities? > I'm just curious because I could see some benefits of possibly allowing the > fpga to house the kinematics functions as well as drive multiple step pins > simultaneously. I just don't know how linuxcnc would command it. > anyway, I just wanted to bring this up for discussion and see what thoughts > people had on it. > > thanks. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
