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Re: UART Serial on cRIO

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Originally Posted by Geek 2.0 View Post
Are we allowed to use the serial port on the cRIO? I vaguely remember hearing that we weren't allowed to use it. If we can, I would assume I could just use a MAX232 with it.
6 Days, 16 Hours and 54 minutes to find out that one.

Technically it was supported last year, but disallowed in the rules.

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Originally Posted by IceStorm
One thing to keep in mind about the serial port on the crio is that if and when the GDC decides to allow us to use the Jaguars CAN interface that is how they intend to interface to it. The hardware beta teams were testing the use of CAN this year but no one will know until kickoff if it will be allowed or not.
There are other methods to bridge, such as the 2CAN. Again, GDC... wait... kickoff soon...


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Maybe there's a way to use the serial ports from the empty module slots?
Those aren't serial ports as you would think of them. They are just a bunch of pins that go straight into the FPGA.