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Re: UART Serial on cRIO

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Originally Posted by Geek 2.0 View Post
Is there currently a way to use UART TTL Serial as a method for communications to/from sensors? It would be very helpful for some gyros/accelerometers, as well as many other applications. I didn't see anything on the digital sidecar or any of the modules.
There is no TTL UART currently available. Your serial communication methods are a full voltage UART on the cRIO's head and TTL voltage SPI and I2C on the digital breakout.

You might be able to fake out the SPI driver to do your dirty work, but I haven't tried.