test bench was Re: Old 486 Board for ECU? Why?

[Swayze]

A 16bit soundblaster I believe is a DAC board but I wouldn't begin to know
how to get 8 channels out of it. any suggestions.maybe some midi circuitry?

byE
Mike
Swayze
mswayze at truswood.com
kswayze at bellsouth.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederic Breitwieser" <frederic at xephic.dynip.com>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:14 AM
Subject: RE: test bench was Re: Old 486 Board for ECU? Why?


> There are more benefits than what is obvious.  For something like an ECM,
in
> a car, full time, its gross overkill.  A motorola or hitachi or zilog
> process, as the OEMs use, is cheaper, easier to manufacture, smaller, and
> certainly as plug and play.  Change code, change wiring harness, start
car.
> This is what the OEMs do, as we all know.
>
> The main advantage for me, is I have boxes of these things.  I also
> understand the architecture fairly well.  I'm in the
> PC/LAN/Infrastructure/Server industry.  My learning curve is much smaller
> than if I attemted to solder together the EFI332 project.
>
> And that's cool :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swayze
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Sent: 5/5/00 9:40 AM
> Subject: test bench  was Re: Old 486 Board for ECU? Why?
>
> have been following this thread and don't really see the benefit in an
> x86
> based ECU, I do however see the benefit in using it for something like a
> test bench, where inputs to an ECU could be simulated. are there any
> inexpensive 8-channel DAC boards out there that would make this easy
> (don't
> figure for this that ADC would be needed).
>
> byE
> Mike
> Swayze
> mswayze at truswood.com
> kswayze at bellsouth.net
>
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