Jinx, as others mentioned, stick with ISA for your application. I was
looking for an alternative to the parallel port for in-house testing.
ISA cards are trivial to design but the slots have all but disappeared
in newer systems. I was going to do a PCI board using the Lattice Semi
CPLD reference design but it's a `timing and testing nightmare'... Since
this is just a one-off project I decided to look at USB in the long term.
In particular, I've been looking at Cypress' EZ series and another
product that included the above on a small PC board. They provide the PC
drivers.

   - Tom

At 14:41 09-11-01 +1300, Jinx wrote:
>> Overall, barring strong reasons to the contrary, I'd go with an 8-bit
>> ISA board.  Not glamorous, but effective.
>>
>> Dale
>
>ISA definitely seems to be the hobbyist's choice, PCI looks to be
>more used on the commercial side. As any of us that have tried out
>h/w projects like robotics know that speed isn't all that important.
>Convenience in this case is more desirable (and it gets rid of a
>pile of cables too)

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Tom Handley
New Age Communications
Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-)

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