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Unread 06-08-2010, 11:42
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Re: Is the crio powerful enough?

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Originally Posted by biojae View Post
Since you are the one who is programming the FPGA, you could have it interface to the cRIO in any way that you want. The cRIO has ethernet, serial, SPI, I2C, analog in (this would require digital potentiometers and be slow), and digital IO.
This is not true. The analog inputs on the cRIO are not the same as the inputs on the old OI. They read voltage, not resistance. You can wire the output of a DAC to the analog inputs directly.