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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur
From what we saw at the demo (We're not a beta team) the Ethernet hardware is quite capable of networking to another system (co-prossessor). I did not see any DHCP controller software (Greg ... is the cRIO under VxWorks capable of being a DHCP server?) so the addressing may be in the FPGA (in which you wont be able to use the ethernet port for further networking). Since the rules haven't come out, no one can answer that, however if the hardware/software is capable it is unlikely that they will restrict coprossessors. They will, most likely, ban other transmitters (such as 900 MHz cameras) though.
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The FPGA has nothing to do with the Ethernet ports or the serial port. Those are connected directly to the PPC processor that will be running your code. As Greg said, no DHCP.
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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur
Other data connections:
I2C
Serial
DIO
All are accessable but you'll most likely have to write your own (or modify) driver to interpret the data.
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The FPGA provides access to a dedicated I2C engine for each digital module. It also has a buffered (512 word send and 512 word receive) SPI interface. You can also use the DIO directly.
-Joe