18-01-2006, 22:19
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Taking a year (mostly) off
 FRC #0254 (The Cheesy Poofs), FRC #0341 (Miss Daisy) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 3,078
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Re: Turning a gear-tooth sensor into a quadrature output encoder
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Originally Posted by Kevin Watson
Building custom circuits out of discreet ICs is kind of passé these days. A bit of Verilog code and a small gate array, like a Xilinx Spartan 3, could easily discriminate between the two pulses. It would be very fun (for me, anyways) if teams got a FPGA demonstration board in the KOP that would allow them to easilly build such circuits.
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Leave it to Kevin to bring the control system fashion police into the matter 
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