Re: Homebrew STG card Update Cheap PCI Card

[Phil Wilshire <philwil-at-on-ramp.ior.com>]

Eric Keller wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen any discussion of the Sensoray board, does it have linux code
> available?
>  I was looking into pci the other night.  I was hoping to see something
> about the pci board on John Storrs website, but there wasn't anything there,
> so i would be interested in seeing it.  The only problem is, for cnc there
> would have to be another daughter card with encoder/d/a converter, but i
> guess we could use the Wilshire/Storrs design as a starting point.  

  John did all the hard work I just helped with some software.
  The card does have some provision for D/A I think.
  
  My card is in the UK still

> Plxtech
> has a special on some of the development stuff right now.  The other thing
> is that it looks like the daughter card would be of the same order of
> magnitude of effort as a complete pci card.
> 
True but we went one small step at a time.
If there is enough interest ( and some support ) we can produce a
combined
PCI - Daughter Card in a very short time. The PCI chip from PLXTech is
quite reasonable.
I have John's paper in PDF form I'll post it on this site if you want or
you can get it from.

ftp://ftp.thinkingnerds.com/pub/projects/rtl-ws/p05-storrs.pdf



Regards
  Phil Wilshire