Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Black boxes was Re: USB or Ethernet machine control

ballendo wrote:

> Jerry,
>
> Proprietary, at least in my dictionary, means "exclusively
> owned /private", or "befitting an owner"...
>
> No, we do not wish to go back to the proprietary boxes (at least I
> don't). We already have a few new ones as well (Carken, Flashcut,
> Microkinetics-tho' theirs is 'subtle', as it is a required card).
> BTW, so is EMC, when used for REAL servos. Anybody have an "open" stg
> card?
>
> What we want/need is an "open" (non-proprietary) black box, like
> Mariss is working on (and others less publicly)...
> I'd include Jon E's PPC project too, but I think it is going to be
> proprietary as well. Jon?

At least for now, I'd like to keep the FPGA configurations to myself.
I don't know what good they would do you, anyway, without Xilinx's
software to compile them. Anyone with an EPROM programmer can
steal the configuration bitstream if they want to do so. The register
definition and schematic will be public, so people can write drivers
for other software, and figure out how to connect it up. Most of that
info is already on my web site.

Jon