Re: Hardware BSC mapper

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

Interesting - a bit like a souped up Lantronix part.  Couple of
questions - what approx is the price ? - and secondly with regard to the
programming  language, do you think it's powerful and fast enough to rip
apart a xAP packet - apply some logic to its content and get it sent
back out on the Ethernet port whilst simultaneously servicing a serial
port at say 19200 (which is not too critical a source ie could use
XON/XOFF. The Ethernet handler would have to have fairly large buffers
and operate at an acceptable speed - 10's of packets per second for a
busy xAP network.

The nicer thing about this is that it is available cased and with an
inbuilt psu...

Kevin

Ian Davidson wrote:
>
> Kevin,
>
> When you have chance take a look at
>
> http://www.tibbo.com/ <http://www.tibbo.com/>
>
> We needed to add Ethernet to a device urgently and tried the 202
> including the dev board. The new language is quite powerful and it can
> easily bridge serial to Ethernet as my first test of the device was
> watching my xap traffic in a serial window. At the moment I am too
> busy at work to try anything but it is well worth a look for some
> simple applications.
>
> Ian D
>
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> Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Hardware BSC mapper
>
> I am investigating the possibility of producing a board with just a
> single RS232 serial port, power supply and Rabbit chip with Ethernet
> that would enable a fairly low cost embedded solution - hopefully
coming
> in under the Netiom price wise. This would offer the BSC Mapper
> functionality and capability for support of one serial device eg the
> Meteor for CID perhaps - or HomeVision....
>
> I maybe able to offer pre programmed Rabbit boards that would have no
> onboard I/O except Ethernet - but would provide BSC Mapper
functionality
> + web server configuration and maybe some basic scheduling if that's
of
> interest. That I'm guessing would be circa £50 ish - is that in
the
> right ballpark do you think ?
>
> Kevin
>
> Andy Laurence wrote:
> >
> > I seem to remember some people mentioning hardware-based BSC
mappers
> > in the past. I'm currently configuring xAP Floorplan to switch
the
> > outputs on my xAP NetIOM based on the results of the inputs. I'd
like
> > to remove the possible instability of a Windows-based machine
that I
> > often fiddle with for other uses (although I'm now using Altiris
> > Software Virtualisation Suite to isolate dodgy software). Is
there
> > anything out there that I could use for BSC mapping?
> >
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