LinuxCNC-RIO - RealtimeIO for LinuxCNC based on FPGA (ICE40 / ECP5)

That's just a colorlight board on a SODIMM based on a lattice FPGA, I have a similar module but with a Spartan 6 FPGA. The ram is 8mb.
The litex project has a couple of examples with a riscv CPU, but probably not up to running Linuxcnx full on.
Now the board that would be great is the Beagle Bone Black if it had say 4gb ram and a faster processor whilst still keeping the PRU for step gen and such.

something like the 'Waveshare LuckFox Pico Plus RV1103' would be cool, headless with web-frontend.

or rasperry pi zero(2)

Why we don't go all the way and design a RISCV Linuxcnc SoC ? I think I can pay anyone willing a cup of coffee, just bear in mind I ain't Elon Musk (actually I can't even afford to replace my old car that had to go to scrapyard). hahahahaha

Cant do this anymore bye all wrote:

Why we don't go all the way and design a RISCV Linuxcnc SoC ?

That is a good idea, that would make everything Open Source.
That would also probably imply using a slim distro, or trimming Debian, a lot!

Cant do this anymore bye all wrote:

(actually I can't even afford to replace my old car that had to go to scrapyard). hahahahaha

Last year i sold my new-ish car and kept the now 20 year old one!
The new-ish one had so much electronic cr@p that the only thing i did while driving it was steering!
I like Manual gearbox, i like to drive, be in control... control freak

1999 Toyota Echo sedan, bought off a driving instructor about 8 or 9 years ago, was a bit rough bodywise. Cost AUD $3000 to buy. Got to the stage where the easiest option, if I had the $$$ would get a reco motor & geabox, plus new CV shafts & front wheel bearings.

But hell some people spend more than 3K a year on insurance.

The only useful thing on that module for this purpose is Ethernet PHYs. But even then, I don't think implementing an Ethernet core is worth the effort, considering W5500 and UDP2SPI bridges already (kinda) work.