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Originally Posted by AustinSchuh
To sum it up, you want to have some sort of safety system that won't rely on end user code (that can have bugs in it) to stop the robot when it looses comms, gets a disabled signal, or an e-stop signal.
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You got it.
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Originally Posted by taichichuan
OK, that can be dealt with easily enough through a uP like the ATMEL ATMega. Also, Xilinx has recently announced some hard-core ARM and PPC440 processors w/ 10000+ FPGA gates on them that could be used for the safety and still run Linux. I was just trying to make sure there wasn't something more sophisticated.
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It can certainly be done on a different hardware platform... in fact the new Xilinx parts sound like a pretty similar architecture.