EMC on laptop

Hi,

I went through the EMC supported hardware list and did not find PCMCIA cards. Can I use EMC on laptop in anyway?


Regards,

Anshuman

I guess I could use it for simulation. However, is there any way I can use EMC to control actual hardware from laptop, if so by which interface?


Regards,

Anshuman

OK. But by which interface? PCMCIA?


Regards,

Sachin

Running any CNC software on a laptop is very risky, I have pent days trying to get MACH3, Linuxcnc and a few others running on a laptop. It is just not worth the time and effort.
To save battery power and weight of the hardware, many functions usually supported in custom hardware gets dumped onto the CPU: this makes for very bad latency.

Drivers and power saving features on the laptop also makes it difficult to configure. Imagine the laptop going into power-save while milling, just because there has not been any keyboard/mouse activity for a while.
If it is your intention to spend weeks debugging however, go ahead, this will give plenty practice.

Does anyone have any practical experience with PCMCIA or ExpressCard parallel port interfaces, positive or negative ?

BTW: laptops are not necessarily that bad. My experience is: switch off SMI interrupt, then latency is good enough. (<20 usec).
I worked for a while now an old Dell laptop without any problem.
But now I killed one output of the parallel port. This is the real problem of laptops

regards, Gerd