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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle
Glad to hear someone has a normal boat that can't be held in place by 929 grams.
Anyway, to explain what was in the NI booth, we actually had three generations of the cRIO. The drop test was the original generation of modular system. It consists of a cpu module, a backplane module, and the I/O modules. The backplane has the FPGA and comes in four and eight slot sizes. This rectangular packaging allowed the controller to fly to around 4000 ft in a rocket -- slides into the tube like a loaf of bread along with the battery.
The FRC cRIO is called the integrated unit. It is lower weight and lower cost because the cpu and backplane are integrated into one PCB. It wasn't officially released when discussions about its use began.
The third generation on demo is often referred to as the single board RIO. It has the module connectors on the edges to flatten the product from a loaf of bread into a pizza, and in fact doesn't come with a housing since it is designed to be integrated into a cabinet on large machinery, etc. This product was also under development when discussions began, but wouldn't be released early enough, doesn't have an enclosure, etc.
Greg McKaskle
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Greg, Can you give any further information on the cost targets, the schedule, the size, and the interface options for the 3rd generation cRio? From your description it is not clear to me that it meets Al's desired cheaper, simpler, and smaller goals. Which by the way I share
Thanks,
Mark