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

there is one, ok, i will try
discord.com/invite/SbskPKPJc6

meister wrote:

there is one, ok, i will try
discord.com/invite/SbskPKPJc6
 

Yay that's awesome. I'll log on and drive in in a few hours (my DC user/pwd is on another PC). Prolly a better hangout to share vendor-neutral dev and goodies I'll catch you there boyz.  

If it wasn't so expensive to get the Mesa boards to Oz I would already have a 7i90 running the rio firmware.
I've been looking into doing a minor redesign of one of my boards to make the SPI connector more compatible with the WZ5500 blue boards with the yellow connector.
As these boards are compatible with the aforementioned Mesa models a external buffer board or generic BoB is a must. But on the plus side each and every pin can be used as an input or out put.

Just for a bit of reference the board that has the SPI interface connector on it has the following:
4 pins dedicated for leds
17 pin connector for use with a generic bob, 4 of the ground pins can jumpered to supply 5 volts.
3 pins on a header
And the 12 pins that are used for the EPP interface are available for I\O with the rio firmware.
32 pins not including the 4 dedicated to the LEDS.
The second board has
2x17 pin connectors for use with a generic bob, 4 of the ground pins can jumpered to supply 5 volts.
And 6 I/O pins on a header for I\O.
For a total of 40 pins.

So 72 pins available without having to use shift registers or anything like that.
All I\O pins are 5v tolerant except the 4 Leds & the SPI interface.
Of course the leds don't need to be installed, those pins could be used for a 3.3v interface to an external device.

Spartans Warriors, Gowin C7 high-speed freshies, all up to the first-in-world high performance ESP P4 silicon on my benchtop!!! So much cool shit happening at this end I don't even know where to begin lool Let's start by finding a neutral hangout and relocate the share drive shall we. Really hope to catch you awesome guys on discord... 

no. 82 & 159 outta 200

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meister wrote:

there is one, ok, i will try
discord.com/invite/SbskPKPJc6
 

Well bad news, tried to login with my old u/p and discord locked me up under the infamous pretext of "we've detected something unusual" so to fetch my mobile number & data for verification. a.k.a internet hacky-services I do not subscribe too anymore. And so deleted the account rather. Farewell discrooks, for another life maybe (not really!). 

I'd invite you on a domestic venue I share open-source on with little over 120k cnc mind-like however nothing english there And so I guess we'll stick to platform-propriatary linuxcnc.org for updates!!

@cornholio

I'm havin a hell of a bumpy start getting that ancient 2013 'ISE WebPACK' working under linux. Haven't tried windows yet. Is there anything like a lil more updated so to have those Spartan-6 working again?... or that's legacy rated already?

Mind sharing your eda/toolchain set-up? that'd be good info

edit: never mind/ignore. I had it. Took an hour to set-up the licensing, ./xsetup doing nothing, to having it installed but randomly crashing after 3 clicks, to realizing that I can't even access my usb ports anymore right now. Won't put up with this crap thank you very much. FORMAT HDD - Bye Spartans - back in the abandoned legacy gizmo box.