:: o m g ... any1 seen this? ::

some kinda ARM thingy ...

[hipstercircuits.com]

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It's a Beaglebone cape. The Beaglebone is a 700MHz Ti Cortex-A8, on an arduino like board for ~$80.
I like Beaglebone's, but on the software side you either get straddled with Linux, which is far from Ideal for a motion controller, or you go No OS and lose access to the LCD driver which to me is a large part of the value.

This cape is designed to work with the PRU modules on the Beaglebone's CPU. The PRU is a simple 200MHz (custom architecture?) CPU that is designed for offloading I/O tasks from the A8. The Beaglebone has 2 such PRUs that can take over certain I/O pins. IIRC someone has done some work on firmware for these PRUs to act as very simple command processors for stepper control and temperature management, alleviating the need for real-time tasks on the A8.

Yeah the PRU's are the one saving grace for me on the BeagleBone running linux.
Still would like GPU access for No OS but pretty much all the faster ARM CPU's have no GPU access for no OS.