relative throughput of new/old cRIOs

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Originally Posted by 1075guy

Not enough to matter, not unless you're doing seriously high end trigonometry, triangulation, vision, and a bunch of interrupting.

like continuously calculating trajectory? continuously tracking a target using vision algorithms? running 6-8 PID loops at 50Hz? get the point?

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Until 2009, we ran on an 8-bit microcontroller that had 4kB of RAM and 128kB of program space, operating at 10MIPS, and we did vision with that.

it was the 16-bit PICC I think and the vision code was so slow as to be almost unusable - and the camera did some of the work back then

Originally Posted by 1075guy

The cRIO runs at something on the order of 400MIPS, and has far more RAM/Program Space. If any of us start saturating its capabilities, I'll be amazed.

be amazed, have you seen all the other crap running on that processor? but I basically agree, it should be enough.