Dashboard Port Decoder

[whytheheckme]

Hello!

I am new to Cheif Delphi, and am a sophomore in high school, so please bear with me if I sound like a fool .

I am looking to design a control unit to attach to the operator controler that can interpret data from the robot and display it on 7-segment displays. At first I was thinking of using a CPLD, but when I realized that the signal is asyncronus and that there are multiple bytes of data, I quickly eliminated that option alone. I am thinking more along the lines of a microprocessor that could decode the information coming from the Dashboard port. Maybe it could take that data and decode it to a usable form to send to a CPLD which could drive many 7-segment displays. I'm not quite sure how to get a microprocessor to decode the data. I have been working with CPLDs for a while now, and I can code them and use them, so I'm not quite sure how different microprocessors are. If anyone has any suggestions about ideas or methods or have links to pages on tutorials for microprocessors or to purchase parts or just about anything that could help me, that would be great. Again, I am just getting started with microprocessors, so bear with me while I learn the new system.

New Cheif Delphi member,
Jacob Komar

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