RE: Hardware BSC mapper

["Ian Davidson" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

When you have chance take a look at=20

http://www.tibbo.com/

We needed to add Ethernet to a device urgently and tried the 202 including
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the dev board. The new language is quite powerful and it can easily bridge
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serial to Ethernet as my first test of the device was watching my xap
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ic in a serial window. At the moment I am too busy at work to try anything
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but it is well worth a look for some simple applications.

Ian D=20


-----Original Message-----
From: xap_automation@xxxxxxx [mailto:xap_automation@xxxxxxx=
] On Behalf Of Kevin Hawkins
Sent: 16 July 2006 13:16
To: Ian
Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Hardware BSC mapper

I am investigating the possibility of producing a board with just a=20
single RS232 serial port, power supply and Rabbit chip with Ethernet=20=20
that would enable a fairly low cost embedded solution - hopefully coming=20
in under the Netiom price wise.  This would offer the BSC Mapper=20
functionality and capability for support of one serial device eg the=20
Meteor for CID perhaps - or HomeVision....

I maybe able to offer pre programmed Rabbit boards that would have no=20
onboard I/O except Ethernet - but would provide BSC Mapper functionality=20
+ web server configuration and maybe some basic scheduling if that's of=20
interest. That I'm guessing would be circa =A350 ish - is that in the=20
right ballpark do you think ?

Kevin

Andy Laurence wrote:
>
> I seem to remember some people mentioning hardware-based BSC
mappers=20
> in the past. I'm currently configuring xAP Floorplan to switch the=20
> outputs on my xAP NetIOM based on the results of the inputs. I'd
like=20
> to remove the possible instability of a Windows-based machine that
I=20
> often fiddle with for other uses (although I'm now using Altiris=20
> Software Virtualisation Suite to isolate dodgy software). Is there=20
> anything out there that I could use for BSC mapping?
>




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