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Unread 18-04-2008, 10:32
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Re: NEW 2009 Control System Released

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Originally Posted by lingomaniac88 View Post
I assume that the robot code will be within the still-not-that-complex-but-does-more category, if not higher. I hope that I won't have to put together autonomous code between matches like I had to do this year. Fifteen minutes from the compiler to the robot. Wow.
Note: cRios let you run code in two places. The FPGA handles low-level device communication and any simple integer maths you would like to do. However, you can pass it all up to the PowerPC (which code compilation doesn't take nearly as long on) and have the PowerPC twiddle with it and send commands back down to the FPGA.

So once you get your low-level stuff working on the FPGA, you may not need to tweak the FPGA code, and can just fiddle with your higher level algorithms on the PowerPC.
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