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Re: Using Interrupts or DMA or timing to control digital I/O switch

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
What I was wondering was, when an FRC team writes application code using the LabVIEW framework and then "deploys" it, does this ever "re-program" the FPGA? Or, does it simply add cRIO runtime initialization code that configures the (pre-programmed by NI) FPGA?
For FRC, the FPGA is programmed only when imaging the cRIO. Teams have no way to change it using their own code. This is a essentially a safety issue, as the FPGA handles all of the robot watchdog and disable features.
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