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?

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

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?

andypugh wrote:

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

Can I see/get this demo config?