Motor Drivers

[yash101]

I was wanting to make it possible for a microcontroller with parallel processing capabilities be getting input, talking to the cRIO, and then send motor output. If possible, I would like the microcontroller to take over while the cRIO is processing an image. This microcontroller costs $8 from manufacturer and $12 from stores and can operate twice as fast as the cRIO. with a clock running at 5MHz and a PLL of 16, 8 cores can give 160 MIPS (160,000,000 instructions per second). That is pretty nice for this. Also, the cRIO needs to continuously interrupt, reducing performance. Sending a Pulse through a PWM means that the cRIO will need to wait for the signal to send before it can do the next thing. This processor can have a core doing it in realtime. The microcontroller has i2c so it can be easily interfaced through the WPILib C++.