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Re: Comments/Complaints on NI control system

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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
@Kevin:
2. The IFI processor had 6 hardware interrupts, enough for 2 1x and 4 2x encoders or less with different decoding. The new processor has 8 hardware counters, but 4x decoding takes two counters. Not a big improvement, but no more ISRs
The FPGA has four 4x encoder modules, and 8 counters. You don't use up 2 counters to run an encoder in 4x.

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And maybe a solution to those ejecting analog modules other than glue.
What part ejected, the NI module or the analog breakout? Was the analog breakout screwed in?
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