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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: CPU + Motor Control on same board??
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 02:11:41 GMT
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jdcook@netcom.com (John David Cook) writes:
>Todd Jochem (tjochem@ius4.ius.cs.cmu.edu) wrote:
>: I'm looking for a good performance CPU + Motor Controller board. [I'm not really
>: a hardware type, so I don't know if what I need is really called a "motor
>: controller" board -> I need to be able to read an actuator, and turn a motor
>: based on these readings.] The CPU would preferably be sparc 1 class machine,
>: but 68000 or x86 based machines would be ok too. Now here's the kicker - the card
>: should ideally fit into a SBUS Sparc slot. 

>You want a sparc on a card + power chips?  You must be high or something.

      Actually, you can get a SPARC on a VMEbus card, and pair it with
a PMAC motor control board.  But that's VME, not SBUS.  Look in the 
Sun third party hardware catalog; there might be something, but I 
doubt it.  Most motor control gear is packaged for industrial-type
card cages.  Try Baldor, PMAC, and Telemechanique.

					John Nagle
