Re: OZ-board - the text

From: Spiro Trikaliotis (Trik-news_at_gmx.de)
Date: 2001-05-10 14:51:23

Hello,

"Martijn van Buul" wrote:

> Ruud Baltissen wrote:

> > Hallo allemaal,
> >
> > The text. Please, enjoy. I'l return to the @#$#@! decoding of my signals
for
> > the PC-card :)

> *gasp*

That's exactly what I fell myself.


> Well, the PCI protocol is well defined, but not as easy to implement as
the
> ISA bus. The *simplest* implementation I saw used an FPGA to do the actual
> interfacing to the PCI bus. PCI is defininately not a Geek Port.

Well, that's my thought, too.
Anyway, why not implement all in an FPGA? The "only" problem which remains:
Where to get the PCI core?

> > One thing is clear: forget Windows :)

> > #### Linux ????

> I think you can safely rule out *any* multitasking system. It introduces
> latencies and delays which are clearly unacceptible.

What about VxWorks (or any other *hard* RT system)? I would not rule that
out "per se". (Although, I don't think it would be highly available at the
hobbyist's...)


I'll have to look at the whole description (and the schematics) at home with
a lot of time... But it sounds *very* interesting!

Spiro.

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