-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/14/2013 3:42 PM, Gary Crowell wrote: > I was wondering if this board would run LinuxCNC: > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crystalfontz/cfa-10036-open-hackable-linux-arm-embedded-gpio-mo?ref=category
Probably, > but you'd need to write drivers. The i.MX28 looks like it has 8 hardware PWM channels and built-in A/D, but when compared to the BeagleBone you get no hardware quadrature encoder inputs, a slower CPU, and no real-time co-processors. ...but it is a nice board, and it could make a pretty handy controller if they are really going to be able to sell them for $50 or less. I like the fact that you get more I/O pinned out than on the 'bone, that it's smaller, and typically most of these ARM chips can be interfaced to an external memory bus (ie: put a cheap Spartan/Cyclone FPGA on a board and roll-your-own SOC+Mesa card). I'm still hoping the 'Bone works out as a good LinuxCNC platform candidate, but regardless any work done crafting configurations (and most of the work building drivers) can probably be fairly easily ported to any other SoC in the ARM ecosystem. The configurations should even port to a 'conventional' x86 system with appropriate hardware to talk to the thermistors. - -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlD0h6wACgkQLywbqEHdNFxSYQCfYU52SzK8b4xt3mwA3POlIekR pKIAnRMCFRHcPrBW11b5m3ukG8pf5baa =Jw6o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
