Does Mesa 5I24-25 would work on PCIe 2.0 x16

Greetings,

I am planing to purchase some mesa board but due to unavailability of ethernet based FPGA board i am planning purchase Mesa 5I24-25 and it based on PCI Card but PC(Dell Optiplex 790 SFF) i bought for this project is having PCIe 2.0 x16 so does 5I24 would work with PCIe X16 slot or i will required any adapter ?

And Does it will effect on performance ? And is Ethernet board are any better then PCI based ?

Right Tom, but in case of closed loop and fast servo threads the pci is much better ... I have an i7 with 5i23 reaches 20 khz without problems. i think ethernet stops much sooner.

I have the 7i40 hv which is practically halfway between speed and torque I was told, it goes at 8khz. the one that goes to 20 is the i7 of the plasma with 7i30, but I had to put it back to 4khz because the thc from standstill was jerking of 2 volts ... probably could not follow. however it is done to try at 4khz we are already in place

tommylight wrote:

There are PCI to PCI-E adapter boards, but i doubt you can fit them inside an SFF case.
Not much diference betwen ethernet and PCI/PCI-E, except for plasma, easier to arange stuff to protect from interference.
Performance is the same.
 

Thank you so much

Last I looked Mesa still has seven 7i96s boards in stock. They are set up for plasma in mind.    Its a 5v board with isolated i/o. Two of them AC ready. We got a couple and I like them. You will need 2.9 installed from buildbot though.

Mesa 7i96s

Well i am going to converting a conventional horizontal boring mill (Union BFT90/3) to CNC HBM with dual encoder feed back so i have to setup something that could handle 6 Step/Dir( 5 Axis + 1 Spindle) and 11 Encoder Feedback ( 6 Velocity and 5 Position) and and about 90 input and 40 output so originally i have planed to with 7I80HD-25 + 7I52S + 7I52 + 7I84D(X3) OR 6I24-25 + 7I52S + 7I52 + 7I84D(X3) but unfortunately 7I80HD-25 and 6I24-HD both are unavailable.