Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > Well, on the subject of GPU speeds, there are other ways that a good > graphics card could help :) > > I'd love to see kinematics and/or TP calcs done on a GPU. Recent video > cards do single precision floating point very quickly, and the newest > set of GPUs can do double precision natively as well. Got a kinematics > problem that requires 1000 iterations to solve? No problem, because 500 > processors running at 700MHz can figure that out in a hurry. Concerned > about trajectory planning with massive lookahead while also taking into > account FO and other things? No problem. Run a bunch of scenarios in > parallel on the GPU and then pick the one that's closest to the actual > situation when the next servo cycle comes around. > > There are all sorts of things that can be done when you can (a) run a > lot of stuff in parallel and (b) throw away 99% of the work and still be > fast enough to control a machine. > The problem with GPUs is they are all proprietary (ie. different) from board to board, and manufacturer to mfr. That would be a real problem.
The Beagle Board has an integrated DSP chip that is part of the OMAP3530 CPU chip. Obviously a descendant of the TI DSP chips. At least, on the Beagle, this part would be a standard component on all boards. I know nothing about programming it, however. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
