New R/C Chicken or the Egg

[Kingofl337]

As far as I'm concerned take the current system, upgrade the CPU to something with a little more performance, and bring out I2C / SPI and call it a day.

[Qbranch]

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

As far as I'm concerned take the current system, upgrade the CPU to something with a little more performance, and bring out I2C / SPI and call it a day.

Yep. I can go for that too. CAN/FlexRay might be nice sometime in the future, but nowhere near the present. Another cool add in would be the addition of a flash memory chip on board... anymore, dropping 8MB or more of flash memory on a board isn't all that expensive... imagine being able to log an entire match's data for analysis.

Just like how Microchip got the finest in 8bit processors for this revision of the controller, perhaps IFI can upgrade to the finest in 16bit... maybe a PIC24HJ256GP610... *drool*.....

-q

Or... maybe the dsPIC33FJ256MC710 which has 32 bit timers... and 24 bit wide instructions... and hardware DMA access... plus with the right clock into your 32 bit timers you can get into the range of being able to measure time-of-flight for light... LIDAR anyone?