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Originally posted by Matt Leese
I would assume fairly high. IFI doesn't have that many employees and a complete redesign of the control system would take up a lot of those employees. There is the possiblity of them contracting it out however.
I think there may be a more likely solution in that software written in PBasic may run in an emulation layer on top of another processor. If the processor was significantly powerful (and frankly, it's not hard to get a cheap powerful processor these days), it wouldn't be too difficult to do that.
Another possibility is to just have two different chips on the board (both a Basic Stamp and some other mystery chip) and it's user selectable as to which one is used.
Matt
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Hmm. Thats a good point. It, however assumes a relatively powerful processor like a StrongArm Coldfire, etc. Most higher power processors must be either programmed in assemble or a compiler must be used. That would mean that FIRST would have to get a company such a MetroWerks donate the software. Microsoft and Metrowerks? not likley
On the other hand I think it is highy likley that they will use another Basic stamp like chip, such the Basic Atom, Basic X, etc. This would allow a great boost in power, with little syntax change.
While a real(ie: runs compiled code) processor would be nice, I think we will probably just see another Basic Stamp like chip. I hope im wrong though.