[techhelpbb]

Another point to make: you don't need to sample and pass all the digital data back to the RoboRIO. You could put some of the conditions that the analog value triggers into say an Arduino.

So for example:

RoboRIO tells Arduino that the upper limit it 100 and the lower limit is 25 (out of 8 bit A/D).
Arduino communicates back when the trigger limits are passed to the RoboRIO.

In this way a really silly number of analog inputs can be serviced because of the coprocessing capability added.