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Re: New C18 3.0+ Compatible FRC Code

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
Treat the digital I/O as instantaneous. It's faster than the execution speed of the program instructions. What you read from an input pin is the state of the pin at that moment. What you write to an output pin takes effect immediately. There are measurable (but trivial) delays, but unlike PWM and relay outputs, there's no interprocessor software communication in the way to slow things down.
Very cool. Just what I was hoping to hear. Hopefully I'll have this new code driving a robot and looking at encoders before the week is over, and I'll be happy to give you (Kevin) any feedback or bugs I find.