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Re: [FRC Blog] myRIO Expansion Port - What's the Deal?

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Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0 View Post
Maybe this is a stupid question but why do I need to use a SPICE simulation to figure out what the ports are doing? Why can't I just have a table with drive strengths and speeds and such?

And why do they assume that your circuit will be flat on the roborio and tell you clearances for stuff under where they think your PCB will be? Can't they just let you figure it out from the mechanical drawings?

I feel like a ton of effort has been put into this for no reason.
Something that laying flat allows is stackability of modules, which is something I hope we can implement. It would be nice to stack things like co-processors on top of a sensor board (or vice versa).
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