Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:18:29 -0700
Hello All,
I have been working on PIC32 based ethernet interface board for LinuxCNC.
This board uses a simple UDP protocol for communication. The HAL driver is
based on RTnet.
Currently, the software step generator for 4 axis and the code for
16 bidirectional I/O is implemented. The spindle pwm code is not yet tested.
Tests are done using halrun, no connections to a real machine yet.
Everything is still in alpha stage but results shows that realtime control over
ethernet is feasible.
More details can be found at rt-8p8c - An ethernet based interface for LinuxCNC - Google Project Hosting.
Regards,
GPO