jarmo@tut.fi (#Jarmo Sorvari) (10/27/87)
I am new to this group, so I'm sorry if I ask things that already have been asked. We are planning to use a transputer board that can be plugged into a PC/AT-E (DIT Module Motherboard B008) with the T800 transputer DIL module (B403). The application will be real-time control of an industrial robot. We need a fast co-processor for number crunching. The control interval should be very short. It would seem that both the 80286 of the PC/AT (doing mainly I/O with the robot and the T800) and the T800 could work simultaneously and thus we could have a powerful system. At least at the beginning we will need only one transputer. We wish to have a system that is easy to program (preferably C) and debug, and that has enough memory (at least 1 Mb) on board. Does anyone have experiences with similar applications (real-time control of mechanisms)? We would appreciate hearing about experiences (positive or negative) with the combination B008 + B403/T800! Does anyone have better suggestions to replace the transputer board? We heard that the C-compiler that INMOS sells is buggy. True or not? Any better replacements? If we buy a third-party C-compiler, would we still need the TDS (transputer development system) from INMOS or are there third party TDS's as well?