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

Looking good guys.

Set up a forum member yesterday with my Spartan6 hardware and a basic riocore config.

ahh, I just saw that Mecanix has 'riocore' on the case

maybe you should think again about the naming !?!?!

originally it was called LinuxCNC-RIO, where RIO stands for Realtime-Input-Output.

riocore was only the name for the repostitory, as I had initially separated it into core and gui for the rewrite (because of the dependencies), but this is now all in riocore.

Does anyone have a better name?

F'ing Awesome.


But I'm an uncouth Aussie.

meister wrote:

Does anyone have a better name?

1. LinuxCNC-RIO <

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2. RIO
3. RIOCORE
4. Really Important OS

The enclosure was spontaneous and meant to illustrate the end goal for the protruded 90deg connectors. Just sketched a rectangle with 4 tabs, extruded it, cut off around the solids and branded it RIOCORE without thinking half-a-second (<-- birth defect). Really did took 3min from start to screenshot. ps. I'll admit I kinda like this RIOCORE though... sounds hardcore as it is! 

OT - In the context and spirit of "IN & OUT" here's a cool 8-ch part ya fpga boyz may find useful. Considering the cost per-IO on fpgas, it's occasionally advantageous to have them bidirectional on their equally expensive hardware. Example below: 

 

your case just reminded me again that the name should also be fixed at some point

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lsf0108pwr looks good, I have to remember it

but at the moment i don't know what exactly it's for, opto inputs don't need it and for step/dir outputs it might be too weak.
PMOD is usually 3.3V

maybe for some universal IO's