--- In Jim Jackson <> wrote:
> Your idea of "'relatively' easy task" is different from mine :-)
> But then I've never played with FPGAs.
>
> cheers
> Jim
>
Check out http://www.fpga4fun.com/
I'm no expert, but coming from more low level programming I feel more
comfortable with generating an FPGA file than writing a realtime Linux
device driver.... ;-)
There is a lot of open source FPGA code/designs for all sort of things
- even small processors (Such as the old 6502 used in the Apple-II).
Check out http://www.opencores.org/browse.cgi/by_category
Which has for a list of some of those available. The Xilinx on the 7KV
board uses the free Xilinx Webpack software (www.xilinx.com), and so
development costs could be kept in check.
The FPGA on the TS-7KV should be capable of holding quite a
sophisticated design, or just a simple FIFO state machine. It seems to
me that the TS-72xx handling the high level
communications/calculations/etc along with a FPGA handling the real
time aspects of the design would seem to make an ideal system.
I'm just about to order a couple of TS-7KV boards to experiment with,
and I'll report my findings.
Regards,
PJE
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