MESA 7I43U

Hello,

My current configuration: 7I33, 7I37 and 5I20 PCI FPGA board. and it works for more than 1 year.
I plan to change PC with NCBox or BeagleBone Black so I need to change 5I20 card. I am thinking about 7I43U - FPGA USB Anything I/O card.

I need some advice:
1. Does my chose of NCBox or BeagleBone Black make sense or there is something better in this small PC area? Which one to chose?
2. I remember discussion about USB bus and at that time support was not available. Is this support now standard (7I43U support)?

Thanks and regards
Boyan

their is no usb support , and never will be ,

if your using at the moment a 7i33 7i37 and a 5i20 , then i'd guess you have a large installation , and not a small toy
therefore i dont recommend any of the toy permutations such as the pi beaglebone etc , they just dont have the horsepower or indeed the interface needed at the moment

i'd stick with a small atx based pc , or you'll be spending more time running in circles and trying software
than actually using the machine .

i believe Arceye has done some work with ncbox , so i'd point that question at him
i suspect the same answer or near to

a lot of the current work is at it's infantile state , so although theirs talk , it's not what i would call stable

Thank you for this. As you suggest, I will stay with 5I20.

The concern I had was PCI bus on new PC's, that was the reason I was thinking about changing FPGA card. Do you know of any ATX based PC brand available in Europe and latency tested for LinuxCNC?

boyzo wrote: The concern I had was PCI bus on new PC's

I don't think that the PCI bus is about to disappear immediately, but your existing hardware would work with:
store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=produc...83_85&product_id=300
In a PCI-e slot.

Or you could consider store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=produc...=83_85&product_id=61

Well, 7i80HD-25 can be alternative. Is there standard HAL support for this card? How complex is configuration? Any known issue?

boyzo wrote: Well, 7i80HD-25 can be alternative. Is there standard HAL support for this card? How complex is configuration? Any known issue?

I think it works, I have actually used one in a demo config.

It isn't in the released version: wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Uspace

If I understand correctly, I need to manually install Uspace RTAPI to get Ethernet support. But then my PCI card will not work (this is OK, i will have only PCI or Ethernet anyway). Is this correct on 2.7 also? Is this card supported in Stepconf?

boyzo wrote: If I understand correctly, I need to manually install Uspace RTAPI to get Ethernet support. But then my PCI card will not work

The table says that PCI works with USpace.

Is this card supported in Stepconf?

It would be pncconf that was used to set it up, but I don't know.

andypugh wrote:
I think it works, I have actually used one in a demo config.

Can I see/get this demo config?

boyzo wrote: Can I see/get this demo config?

I don't think I still have it, and it was very specialised.