Hi Everyone,

For my system I want:

- A variety of I/O - Temperature readings, etc.
- A variety of serial I/O that I can use to send and receive data over a powerline carrier modem (separate board)
- Some memory for saving historical I/O data over time. Would only keep a months worth of data, weeks worth, and days worth.
- A processor (FPGA?) for using serial data, looking at historical data, Kalman Filters, and making decisions off this information, sending it back over serial out to powerline carrier modem.
- Obviously some on board ADC for I/O. 8 to 10 bit (too high?)

I have no clue about what the choices are out there. A friend of mine said maybe PIC or gumstix. No Clue. So I need everyone's help.

I figured I can take data every hour from about 3-5 I/O. Not sure how much resolution I need for temperature data.

Hopefully you guys can provide options and get this conversation going. Thank you.

 

For a one-off, have a look at the arduino. Great way to get started with uCs.

Sounds like it should be good for your application. And cheap!

Something like 15 digital i/o, 5 ch of (i think 10 bit) ADC. PWM. Free published IP for serial communication. Lots of support.

 

The Microchip PIC and Atmel AVR are good places to start as well as there is a lot of (free) resources out there to help get you started.