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Re: Program Pnuematics

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
I think how the "magic" works (Alan please correct this if wrong) is that when the compressor code is initialized in Begin vi, it sets up an event-driven task. This task is triggered by an external hardware interrupt.
I don't have the detailed understanding of the system to be able to give a confident answer, but I thought the compressor control was essentially a hardware task, handled entirely by the FPGA.