Hi
This is sort of a continuation of this thread:
http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/t...-to-circuit-without-firmware-involved.124885/
There are new motherboards that have ISA slots still and then there are really old computers.
My understanding is that ISA cards often used to have no firmware and were controlled by the PC's CPU.
I am attracted to desktop computing more then "embedded".
I have many things I want to do but basically right now I am thinking of getting a ISA prototype board:
http://www.futurlec.com/Protoboards.shtml
am using it to bread board circuits. I was thinking I could use a 16 bit ISA bus to control 14 devices by SPI
Does anyone see any downsides to this approach, am I about to go over a cliff ?
Thanks-Patrick
This is sort of a continuation of this thread:
http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/t...-to-circuit-without-firmware-involved.124885/
There are new motherboards that have ISA slots still and then there are really old computers.
My understanding is that ISA cards often used to have no firmware and were controlled by the PC's CPU.
I am attracted to desktop computing more then "embedded".
I have many things I want to do but basically right now I am thinking of getting a ISA prototype board:
http://www.futurlec.com/Protoboards.shtml
am using it to bread board circuits. I was thinking I could use a 16 bit ISA bus to control 14 devices by SPI
Does anyone see any downsides to this approach, am I about to go over a cliff ?
Thanks-Patrick