Thread: Regarding The cRio
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Re: Regarding The cRio
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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
Its also probably possible to hook up another microcontroller as a Digital I/O
Which is correct, but if you have an ethernet port on your microcontroller (or 2nd cRio) why wouldn't you want to get 1 or more megabytes per second throughput?

Going through GPIO is going to be slower then ethernet.
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