Thread: Best way to measure period between pulses? Counters and FPGA
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Re: Best way to measure period between pulses? Counters and FPGA
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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
OK, so we're talking about modifying and re-compiling the WPILib source, not simply passing a parameter?
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Originally Posted by jhersh View Post
The FPGA interface function is called writeTimerConfig_AverageSize(). Looks like we never exposed that to the WPILib API layer in C++ (and therefore Java). It's exposed in LabVIEW.
That is what I was saying. It is not in the WPILib API layer in C++ and Java. That means if you care to use the hardware feature, you need to move down a layer.

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