USB "smart box" early prototype going to NAMES

Well.... at least that is the plan.

Been laying low as I often have problems with projects
running much later than planned. Anyway there is now
a very early, proof of concept, USB and/or serial port
driven smart stepper pulse generator box ready to be shown
at NAMES. For those who will not be at NAMES, there
should be some pictures on my web site Thursday night.

See: http://www.pmdx.com

The main feature is real hardware generation of the
stepper pulse train. This includes both velocity AND
acceleration being done in hardware with, presumably,
no jitter. Yes, it uses an FPGA (Xilinx), doesn't
everybody nowadays. :-)

The rest of the feature set is up in the air, so at
the risk of being inundated.... what hardware functions
are needed? Keep in mind that software (Windows or Linux)
is expected to provide the bells and whistles for the
user interface, so I am asking what is needed in hardware
to support the higher level software.

Hoping to see lots of you at NAMES,
Steve Stallings