How to build your own high speed parallel I/O board running on PCI bus

Nov 23, 2003 4 Replies

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Peter Wallace

Our 5I20 "Anything I/O" card will give you 72 TTL compatible I/O bits in a PCI card format. This is a simple FPGA based card. One of the simplest supplied configurations is 3X 24 bit I/O ports. These are simple 24 bit ports with a Data direction register so the direction of…

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Hello,



In good old days it was very easy to build interface cards for PCs with the ISA bus. In these days it seems to be a bit more difficult/complex to make PCI bus based cards.



Would any one suggest how to build a "simple" high speed parallel I/O board for the PCI bus ? And how to program (SW tools) this card?



Thank you.



Roberto Hawkowski nospam snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com


Our 5I20 "Anything I/O" card will give you 72 TTL compatible I/O bits in a PCI card format.

This is a simple FPGA based card. One of the simplest supplied configurations is 3X 24 bit I/O ports. These are simple 24 bit ports with a Data direction register so the direction of each bit is programable. Other configurations include a 12 Axis host based servo motor controller and 8 Axis embedded microcontroller based servo motor controller (Microcontroller embedded in FPGA)

The 5I20 is $199.00 quantity 1

Our USB-JTAG programmer can be used for general purpose I/O (40 bits) from a USB port the USB-JTAG is $99.00 quantity 1

(www,mesanet.com)

This seems like a *wonderful* card, until you also need ADC capability.

I will be having only a single PCI slot, and I would be interested in finding a card that has both digital i/o and at least 16 ADC channels.

-- D. Jay Newman

Is there interest in similar device for 1/4 the cost ?

(Microcontroller

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