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Originally Posted by rwood359
It's difficult to form constructive questions when there are only epic poems and myths about how the new hardware and software are going to work. There is more detail in your last post than in all preceding posts and announcements that I have seen.
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My high school english teachers would never believe someone would accuse me of writing epic poetry.
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Can you give us an ETA for the WPILib manual?
Will it be released to all teams at once or only to the beta teams and later to the rest of us?
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The documentation and source code will be released to the beta teams next week along with the beta development tools. The decision on the rest of the public release is up to FIRST.
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Can you tell us which Wind River Tools will be available?
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The software will include Workbench 3.0 based on Eclipse 3.3. The FIRST program builds use the gnu C/C++ compiler. Full remote debugging (breakpoints, watchpoints, single step, etc.) is included, some of the other profiling tools from the full version of WorkBench are not there. You can debug the program remotely over the Wifi or ethernet connection.
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Will there be details such as
or will there calling sequences to initialize and read the gyros?
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I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but there is a class for the gyro. Inside the class the A/D channel hardware is set up to do averaging and oversampling and the output from the A/D conversions is routed to a hardware accumulator that does the integration (summing) to compute heading from the gyro rate output. The software just reads/scales the current value whenever the program asks for it. The hardware has two of those accumulators so you can have two gyros or other devices requiring hardware summed A/D values.
Are those the details you were looking for?
You're welcome - good questions!