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Originally Posted by MrForbes
I like the idea of the size reduction of combining the processor and interface board. But the downside is that if you blow an interface, you have to replace/repair the whole thing. We've fried a couple sidecars, no damage to the cRio.....consider the relative cost of the two parts
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One common way to ruin a Digital Sidecar is to put battery voltage on any of its "ground" pins and fry its reverse power input protection. Integrating it could make that specific reverse power protection unnecessary* and thus remove a failure mode.
* It could be combined with a protection circuit for the entire device that is less susceptible to permanent damage.